WordPress Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance

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Sometimes when running an automatic upgrade of your WordPress installation you may get the warning message, “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” WordPress places a hidden file on your web server called .maintenance. All you need to do to restore your website is delete the .maintenance file. To do this, either [...]

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Install ImageScience and FreeImage on Mac OS X

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If you plan on allowing users to upload images to your Rails site, you’re probably using Rick Olson’s attachement_fu plugin. You’ve also probably come across Mike Clark’s File Upload Fu tutorial. Step one of Mike’s tutorial requires you to install an image processing library. ImageScience is simple and does the trick. To save you some [...]

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Hassle-free screen grabs

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Like all web developers, every now and then you need to remotely share a screen shot with a client, team member, or anyone else. If you’re using Mac OS X, Grab Up is the perfect tool for that. Download and install the free Grab Up tool. When you want to take a screen shot, hit [...]

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Email certificates to sign and encrypt your messages

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Comodo’s Free Email certificates allow you to use the digitally sign and encrypt features built into your personal email client to authenticate and secure your email communications. This allows recipients of your emails to confirm your identity and ensure that the email you sent was not modified during transmission. It is also simple to fully [...]

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Mysqldump example

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For some odd reason, I always forget the stupid syntax for mysqldump. There are a bunch of options that you can use with this program, but if you just want to grab a simple dump of your database, use this command: mysqldump -u[user] -p[password] [databasename] > dumpfile.sql

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Key events, window.open, and popup blockers

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Recently, I was attempting to open a window/tab using JavaScript from a key handler and the popup blocker in Firefox prevented it from opening. This was slightly surprising since the same code was working from within an onclick handler and the domain of the window to be opened was identical. Here’s an example window.open: window.open(‘http://bustoutsolutions.com/’, [...]

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