Archive for May, 2009

Creating a Simple REST API With VB, PHP and MySQL

Creating a Simple REST API With VB, PHP and MySQL

The internet is an interesting place.  A few weeks ago I had posted an article showing people how to make Crystal Reports play nice with SQL Server Compact Edition.  Since then, I’ve had a few people contact me with questions about how to use SQL Server CE as well as how to make Crystal Reports [...]

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Merging WordPress Databases

Merging WordPress Databases

This post is the second in a short series outlining how anyone can take measures to simplify WordPress installations on shared or private hosting solutions, improving security and reducing maintenance time.
Yesterday I showed one possible way to host multiple WordPress blogs with a single installation and today I will show you an easy way to [...]

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Hosting Multiple Blogs With a Single WordPress Installation

Hosting Multiple Blogs With a Single WordPress Installation

This post is going to be the first in a short series outlining how anyone can take measures to simplify WordPress installations on shared or private hosting solutions, improving security and reducing maintenance time.
It’s a common problem: We have dozens of WordPress installations on our web server(s), and updating each and every site when a [...]

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Back Online!

Back Online!

It seems like forever, even though it’s been little more than 36 hours, but j2fi.net is finally back online after running into some issues with WordPress exploits and illegal background processes.  The problem was completely my fault, as I had let a subdomain with an older version of WordPress sit idle for far too long. [...]

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One Year and Counting

One Year and Counting

If you would have told me ten years ago that I’d be living on the opposite side of the Earth, in Japan, married to a wonderful woman, and working as a “language facilitator” in the same city that Mr. Baseball was filmed in, I would have laughed in your face and gone back to drinking [...]

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