Category Archives: ruby

Blog Move 1: Getting WordPress data to Ruby using XML

Posted on June 5, 2010 by David

Step 1 in the “Moving my blog” process is “Extract the current site’s data into a manageable format” Frankly, that’s easy! WordPress has a functionality to export the site’s content to a single XML file containing all the published Categories, … Continue reading →

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Simple Thinking Sphinx on Dreamhost

Posted on October 28, 2009 by David

*** Please note – this will probably not work (at all) (for more than a day of light use) without Cron use. And isn’t at all authorised by Dreamhost!! *** For a recent client project I’ve used a Dreamhost unlimited … Continue reading →

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Rails / LAMP / WordPress Setup Guide

Posted on May 7, 2009 by David

I’ve had huge amounts of pain getting WordPress set up locally over the last few weeks on my old machine and when it struck again with my new development environment it definitely time to write down the required steps to … Continue reading →

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Git Pro Tips!

Posted on February 22, 2009 by David

Stumbled across this fella on Twitter today, noticed he worked at Slide (who make successful/annoying Facebook Apps). None the less (I joke) he writes a blog at http://www.unethicalblogger.com/ and has recently been writing a series of ‘ProTips’ on using Git … Continue reading →

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