Moving this blog from Dreamhost to Linode

This post is in continuation to my earlier post which simply mentions the move of this blog from Dreamhost to Linode and this post is an attempt to expound on a little bit of the details and the experience. This was not just a move from shared hosting a.k.a Dreamhost to a vps solution a.k.a [...]

Moving from Dreamhost to Linode

Yes, after 3 years with DreamHost, I have finally moved my blog to a Linode server and it did not go as planned therefore, lack of activity on the blog. I never had any issues with it. It was cheap, gave me easy options to install WordPress and all. But being a programmer, I wanted [...]

Sayo nara hideous urls

I have managed to get rewrite urls to work for this blog. It was not difficult at all but I was just being lazy (not a GTD attitude I know)…so no more of “index.php?p=12″ in the url instead you will be presented with a pretty url for example “sayo_nara_hideous_urls/14″ (more meaningful and is same as [...]

Tryst with WordPress

It took me a long time to install my local copy of wordpress. Problem: For some reason the PHP install failed to recognise the existence of mysql on my machine and gave the following error “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL”. Environment: Apache 2.2 on Windows XP, PHP 5, MySQL 5 Solution: [...]