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Get back Insert media button in WPMU

Nov 2008
04

This is a really simple plugin I always add to my default installation of WPMU. Nowadays embedded media are really commons in blog’s post and all my customers were asking for it.

I found the plugin “Allow Embedded Videos” (http://wpmudev.org/project/Allow-Embedded-Videos) but still the button in the editor didn’t show up.

Download it here


The chemical wave !

Jul 2008
23

The Chemical Brothers - Italia Wave ‘08 - Via Youtube thanks to byoghi

Well, the festival still have to “grow” … In Arezzo was something else, but I’m sure next year will already better. We were there mainly for the Chemical Brothers but we also got some other cool artists like Bugo and Sud Sound System.

We also went at the Elettrowave, the electronic side of the festival. The location couldn’t be better: an old fortress by the sea !

Fortezza Vecchia - Livorno - Italia
Fortezza Vecchia - Livorno - Via Flickr thanks to livornoalone

See you next year Livorno !

PS : Someone told me that the tower of the “Fortezza Vecchia” in Livorno is taller than the tower of Pisa. Is it true ?


Marcus Miller - EstivalJazz 2008

Jul 2008
05
Marcus Miller
Marcus Miller - Estivaljazz ‘08 - Lugano - Picture by Andrea Perotti via Flickr

Yesterday I went up to Chiasso directly after work, there I met Sma and we went together to Lugano to see Marcus Miller playing at Estivaljazz 2008.

Great show, we also managed to sit in front of the stage. The clarinet/saxophone player on the left was my hero, he was moving like a spring while blowing like hell and was the only one who could compete with Miller. Alex Han his name, and 20 his age !

So, if you pass by Lugano the first weekend of July don’t forget about the EstivalJazz !

PS: As usual I didn’t have any camera with me. I took the picture from Flickr, here the complete gallery » -


Automatic vHost with Apache

May 2008
19

In my development machine i wanted to have a specific vHost for each project.

Something that would allow me to type URL like:

http://wordpress-test1.lan/

or

http://phpmyadmin.lan/

I started to set for each one a vHost in Apache but after a while I’ve found myself with too many vHost file.

So I started to search for a more easy and fast way, and here it is:

Note: you need to install Apache mod_rewrite to make things work.

Preamble:

  1. You have Apache installed, and your DocumentRoot is /var/www/
  2. You have mod_rewrite installed and enabled
  3. You can modify the /etc/hosts file

Let’s say we want to install a test/demo version of Wordpress and access it from the URL http://wp-test.lan/

1) We download and untar Wordpress in /var/www/wp-test/

2) We tell our machine to resolve the domain wp-test.lan with the IP 127.0.0.1. To make this we add a line to our hosts file.

hpatoio@namazu:~$sudo su -
[sudo] password for hpatoio:
root@namazu:~#echo “127.0.0.1 wp-test.lan” >> /etc/hosts
root@namazu:~#exit
hpatoio@namazu:~$

3) Now we have to change Apache config.

Open /etc/apache2/sites-anabled/000-default with your favorite editor and add these lines inside the <VirtualHost *> directive.


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.lan$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /%1$1

Basically :

  1. The first line turns the mod_rewrite on
  2. The second one tells Apache to keep in the host part of the URL (HTTP_HOST) everything that stands before “.lan”
  3. Finally the third line insert the string matched before (%1) between the host and the resource part (directory + file + query string) of the requested URL

4) Restart Apache

hpatoio@namazu:~$sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now if open your browser and you point it to the URL http://wp-test.lan/ you should see the WP installation page. Right ?


Carnival !!

Feb 2008
29
Carnival
???

Critical Mass Lecco

Nov 2007
07

It has to start somewhere,
it has to start sometime !
Which better place than here ?
Which better time than now ?


Clusone ‘07

Oct 2007
15
Clusone 07
Giusy, Kathrin and me.
Thanks to Adeline (on the other side of the camera)

Like the last 4 years, few days ago, I was in Clusone for the Estate di S.Martino, I love this village and the feeling you get during the happening. Lovely wine, traditional food and true friends … need more to be happy ?

If the next year you wanna come mark this site: www.bandabidu.org.


Got pictures …

Sep 2007
17
Amsterdam inspiration
Amsterdam inspiration

Under the belly ...
Under the belly …


CSV export from MySQL

Sep 2007
15

If you have access on the machine with MySQL and you need to export all tables in a database you can use:

mysqldump -uroot -p DATABASE_NAME -T ‘/home/simone/export_csv’ –fields-terminated-by “,” –fields-enclosed-by ‘”‘ –lines-terminated-by “\n”

the script will create a files for each table of the DB and will place it in export_csv.

If you need to export a custom resultset or you need to export data from a remote MySQL server on your machine you can use this command :

mysql -uroot -h HOSTNAME -p DATABASE_NAME -B -e “select field1,field2 … fieldX from \`TABLE_NAME\`;” | sed ’s/\t/”,”/g;s/^/”/;s/$/”/;s/\n//g’ > my_export.csv


Microsoft Access to MySQL | Online converter

Sep 2007
11

Amazing online tool to convert MDB Microsoft Access file to MySQL SQL scripts !

Check it out -> http://www.mdb2mysql.com/


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