I’m now using WordPress 3.2 in all my new installation. Of course, I already upgraded the rest of my websites. But I found something that’s really strange. The Custom Fields and a few other modules are missing the the post editor. I was thinking maybe it was removed in the latest version or that it may have been affected by an errant plugin. The problem is that I’m using TwentyEleven theme and no plugins and yet the Custom Fields module is missing. It turned out that there’s actually an option in the Screen Options menu to display/hide certain parts of the editor.
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Missing Custom Fields on WordPress 3.2
July 9, 2011 By 10 Comments
Update User Password in MySQL
July 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Apparently, quite a number of people are looking into my humble website trying to find out how to change a password of an existing user. Doing this is easy in Oracle with a ALTER USER command. In MySQL, it is different in such a way that you need to update a table. Here’s the command.
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How To Cancel Subscription on Paypal
June 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The menu on PayPal dashboard is very confusing to say the least. You have to dig into the menu to be able to find what exactly you are looking for. Case in point is the subscription. You’ll have to click several links just to see what your current subscriptions are. So for the benefit of mankind, I’m listing the steps down.
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Recursive setacl command on Linux/Unix
June 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Setting access control list(acl) recursively is not as straigthforward in HP/UX. I believe the same is true for other Unix flavors. In case you are wondering how, the command is shown below.
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SubVersion Initialization Error
June 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
After installing subversion, I hit some error when I tried to restart Apache. When I removed/renamed the subversion.conf and the error went away. Obviously, subversion did not work. So I investigated to find out the root cause.
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How To Install Subversion on CentOS
June 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I finally decided to setup an online version control and chose subversion (instead of cvs which I use on my macbook). Initially, I was thinking of subscribing to github but the prospect of paying monthly did not bode well especially that it would only be me who will be updating the codes. Github has a free service though. But that’s if you open-source your code.
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Jing : Free Screencapture for Mac
June 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The default screen capture of Mac, command+shift+4, is good. I can specify the part of the screen I want to capture and it’s automatically saved into a PNG file. It’s very simple and straightforward. But the longer I use it, the more I miss Greenshot. But that’s not (yet?) available for Mac.
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How To Burn ISO Image to DVD in Mac
June 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Mac OS X already comes with the Disk Utility app which you can use to burn ISO images into a CD/DVD. You don’t have to buy or download a new app to just do that. The step-by-step procedure is shown below.
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Read Input Without Echo in Bash
June 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I have a script that needs to be deployed in different environment as most scripts are. This script requires asking for userid, tnsname and password during deployment. I tried to use READ but it echoes the password on the screen as soon as I type it. So how can we hide the password? Here’s how.
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Update Oracle Sequence Last Number
May 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I only realized this last week that direct update of the last number of the sequence. Or maybe I just don’t know so what I did was to create a workaround.
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