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Free eBook: Getting Good with Git
To those in software development, version control can be both a godsend and a devilish frustration. Git solves many of the challenging problems users of systems like SVN and CVS encounter, but it can take a little learning to start using appropriately.
I've started using Git for my Archdiocesan web development (see issues for setting up Git on a CentOS server, and setting up a local development environment for Git/database/file synchronization), and it rocks. So much more so than SVN.
During the month of October, Nettuts+ (an online...
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Java Script question
I have a views page that has a media player. I want the page to be opened into a popup window resized to the player. I am assuming that I need to use the window.Open(), but how do I do that?
John
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Useful Comment Notification Emails for Drupal Site Admins
I have, for some time, used the amazingly dexterous Rules module on my Drupal sites to receive email notifications when new comments were posted. I set up a Rule in the admin interface which would send an email if a new comment was saved on the site.
In the 'Message' section of the Rule's 'send email to arbitrary address' action, I would include a link to the commented-upon node, as well as the body of the comment text.
However, I wanted to also have a couple convenient links included: one...
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Social Media Strategy for your Parish
From an article posted to Today's Parish, from @jongivens:
Continue readingA few years ago, it would have been considered “cutting edge” for a parish to be using social media, but now everyone is doing it. So the question isn’t should parishes be using social media, but how can they use it with intentionality to support their ministry goals. Before a minister or parish committee member even sets up a Twitter account, Facebook page, or blog for the parish, they need to discern what it is they are trying to...
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Site Redirects/Rewrites via .htaccess
Greetings,
I just moved a website to a completely new hosting provider AND CMS (Joomla to WordPress).
The problem is that I'm getting a number of http requests that are obviously for the OLD site - variations like this - http://www.website.com/?option=com_content&task=view&id=3483&Itemid=384
Is there any way to 'redirect' these http requests to my new homepage (index.php). It would have to be a wildcard since there were over 3,000 articles on the old site.
To recap...is it possible to redirect http requests as follows
http://www.website.com/?option=com_content* to http://www.website.com
I'm assuming this would need...
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Website Hosting Management, DNS Information
Almost every website on the Internet is accessed using a name like "www.opensourcecatholic.com" or "www.archstl.org." These are called domain names. There is a whole system on the internet called DNS, which allow people's computers to access the right information when they type in a domain name in their browser.
In order to have a website that is accessible via a domain name, you need to have a domain name registrar to set up the domain name... kind of like how you need a telephone company to give you a...
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VPS caching
I'm looking at installing APC (Alternative PHP Cache) on one of the VPS'es I support.
After doing some research, it sounds like it doesn't play nice with mod_suPHP, which I have installed as well.
Anyone have any experience with those 2?
The VPS - currently - only has 2 websites on it, one is a WordPress site, the other is Joomla.
Also, anyone using a CDN to offload content? Is it pricey
Thanks for any advice!
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