Archive | June, 2009

nice marmot

By on June 18, 2009 in friends, technical

While this would have been bet­ter posted to bash, I present a snip­pet from Triple-Em him­self regard­ing an inad­e­quacy in the stan­dard I/O libraries avail­able to him:

1:37:20 PM Matthew Miller: Think I'm going to write an RFC with the sug­ges­tion that we extend the stan­dard 4 option I/O error han­dling direc­tives -- Abort, Retry, Fail, Ignore -- to include a fifth: Fuck_It_Dude_Lets_Go_Bowling
1:37:31 PM Ryan McKern: i'll sec­ond it if you do
1:37:45 PM Matthew Miller: excel­lent. let's see what the experts group thinks.

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Text editing for fun and profit

By on June 15, 2009 in applications, editors, mac

In the attempt to stream­line the process of main­tain­ing the myr­iad scripts and con­fig files that I use day to day as part of both my day job and my droll hobby. I've used Text­Mate for every­thing, which I've pre­vi­ously dis­cussed (par­tic­u­larly using it in con­junc­tion with CSSEdit, which we'll come back to). But this has sort of spi­raled out of con­trol as I've spent more time work­ing with PHP scripts (such as Word­Press themes) and I've started to won­der about the newer gen­er­a­tion of all-in-one editors.

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Updating WordPress with libssh (and what I did when it was broken)

By on June 14, 2009 in php, site meta, wordpress

This article was orig­i­nally about auto­matic updates over SSH2 not work­ing for me when I upgraded to Word­Press 2.8. Word­Press 2.9 is out now, and this prob­lem turned out not to be their fault.

After fil­ing a bug report and work­ing through it with the Word­Press team, a solu­tion was even­tu­ally found (see the final update to this post). If you're not inclined to skip to the end then here is a spoiler: turn off open_basedir or make the dec­la­ra­tion less restrictive.

If you're not expe­ri­enc­ing this prob­lem (and Google says you're land­ing here if you're look­ing for help set­ting up SFTP/SSH updat­ing for Word­Press), I don't think this write-up will be of much help. But feel free to stick around; I've got snacks!

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