Recently, while migrating my blog, I had to find all the occurrences of my old URL and replace it with my URL. One way of doing this was to get a database dump, open it in a text editor and the do a find replace and the import it back. This is a 4 step […]
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Recently I wanted to add some links to WordPress Menu, which were not pointing to my domain and hence wanted to open them in new tabs. Doing this is very simple in WordPress. This is normally a hidden option and in this post I will tell you how we can easily do that.
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Many times we need to have some process to run automatically at set times or after set intervals. This can be easily done in Linux/Unix by using cron jobs. In this post I’ll talk cron and crontabs. Cron is an Unix utility which allows you to automatically run tasks periodically at set times or set time intervals. crontab is a file which contains the details of which task has to be run when. It is essentially a schedule of all crons.
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Recently I wanted to get a domain name of the page on which I was currently on. I was trying to parse the entire URL of the page and then parse it using regular expressions etc. to get the domain name. I was able to get the required information using this method, but then I
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We see so many URLs everyday, but do we know what are the parts of an URL, what does each part means? In this post I will discuss the various parts of the URL. An URL may consists of as many as 6 parts. The different parts of the URL are: scheme://domain:port/path?query_string#fragment_id Some people refer