Author: Brian

For my own copy and paste pleasures, here are some wpdb error handling examples. It will grow over time: A very simple non-failing method for in a function: if ($wpdb->query($query) […]...

I wanted to read the timeline of the Amazon “Networking Event”.  So I’ve taken the logs of the EC2 and RDS status updates and put them together for a post. […]...

This seems like it should be a really complicated tasks, but once you have done a few it sinks in that this is really simple…   Just run each of […]...

There are LOTS of ways to do this.   This is what I do so that I can use the same code in any site’s .htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / […]...

If you are working with a Linux or Unix server, you may not even know which operating system release is on the server or even if it is a 32 […]...

PHP records all errors to a file named error_log I needed to look at the status of a project on two servers to see what errors were being thrown. This […]...

Have you ever wanted to know the ip address assigned to a domain according to your local server? I had this problem. I needed to get an IP address of […]...

This summer I took the opportunity to write my first BackPress application.  It was an educational experience that came with a number of surprises. I thought I would share my […]...

Though installations will vary, this is usually done via a file named timezone in the /etc directory. By default, there’s probably already a file there set to the utc timezone. […]...

I needed to transfer about 40 databases from a new clients server over to my hosting platform. When doing a couple database exports, I might use PHPMyAdmin to do the […]...