Just completed moving this website https://toggen.com.au/blog to nginx web server. The issues I found: Installing and configuring php-fpm to run per user Learning the syntax of the nginx conf files Rewriting the .htaccess files into the correct nginx rules Trying to...
Open Source Apps
ElegantThemes Divi FTW
I have a friend who does roof tiling and repairs, along with gutter cleaning in Maitland NSW. I have just gotten him a website going using Eleganthemes.com Divi Wordpress theme. The Divi theme is a powerful html5 mobile friendly theme which has so many pre -...
WordPress.com JetPack Plugin — The Interconnectedness of All Things
Just hooked my blog up to Wordpress.com jetpack plugin which allows publicizing a self hosted blog using any number of social accounts that one subscribes to. So I've hooked The Telarah Times up to Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. As this is my first post after doing...
Scribus 1.4.3 on Windows 8.1 (Not Responding)
Problem: Using Scribus 1.4.3 on Windows 8.1 and every time I launched it it displayed "not responding". Cause: Scribus finds a new font but can't finish loading due to not having sufficient permissions to add the font. (I think) Resolution: Run as "Administrator" and...
Using Password Safe for Windows on Wine on GNU/Linux
Couple of errors: Error 1: Required Unicode font is not installed on this system Fix: Change the font in the program to something available on your system such as Dejavu Sans or Liberation Sans. Error 2: File or path not found Cause: When you navigate to your...
Windows 2012 Sending PJL Commands before the Postscript – Arrrggggh
I'm trying to get http://cups-mailto.sourceforge.net/ to work on a Debian 6.0.7 system. I've installed the printer on the Debian Box as "PDF-Converter" and gotten it running over LPD. However when printing a test page from a Windows 2012 server with any of the HP...
Sydney to Kuala Lumpur
On the flight I managed to sit across the isle from a man who couldnt release himself from his seat belt. So after assisting him with that he noticed my mastery of the inflight entertainment system and kept bothering me to help him with it. He was also a...
Sydney Airport – Free wifi
Finally got through the customs to the gate. Everyone is so connected to their smart devices (us included) that they forget to read the signs telling them not to have their phones out while going through customs. The other funny thing is people dont get how to use...
Configure CakePHP 2.x to Detect and Serve Mobile Browser Pages
Put here for later: http://madething.org/post/661607317/mobile-browser-detection-and-optimization-in-cakephp http://doctorfox.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/mobile-browser-detection-and-optimization-in-cakephp-made-simple/ Only thing needing to be added would be a cookie...
A New Look and a Slight Name Change
A New Template With Googles recent (April) algorithm changes my website suffered a 50% drop in traffic. So I thought it was time to go for new theme. I have chosen a HTML5 theme named FavePersonal from Crowd Favorite. It's got a lot of features that I'm still learning...
Cannot see Advanced Editor Buttons in WordPress
Just discovered that there is an option per user in Wordpress to disable the visual editor So if you can't see the advanced editor buttons you need to click on "Users => Your Profile" and uncheck "Disable the visual editor when writing"
Getting APC Cache and batcache working on my Server
In Wordpress Admin Area Installed the "Batcache Manager" and "APC Object Cache" plugins using the Plugins ==> Add New option in the Wordpress Admin Panel and didn't activate created phpinfo.php in the web root of my webserver and called it via a browser Contents of...
Website Speed Up
Just discovered my traffic to this website has dropped by about 50% not sure why, could be the vagaries of searching engine ranking. Update: Apparently there has been some 52 algorithm changes on Google in April alone so I think I may be the victim of the Google SEO...
Long Term Electronic Storage of Purchase Receipts
Bunnings Warehouse an Australian hardware supplier prints purchase receipts that have a tendency to fade to the point of being unreadable. The rate at which they fade seems to depend on how much light they get and how much heat they have to endure. The problem is that...
DIY Websites
Keep getting asked "Where can I build a site on the internet" preferably for free or low cost OK so here are some links to templated DIY site building websites: Google Sites Wix Website Builder Squarespace So to get started on the Internets for eCommerce what do you...
A Link to an Article on Creating Searchable PDF on Linux
http://tfischernet.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/searchable-pdfs-with-linux/ PDF Copy of blog post in case they stop blogging and leave the internet
Generate Custom XML with Perl CGI.pm
I want to output custom XML without any HTML or DTD tags using CGI.pm Here is my hack to get what I'm after: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use CGI qw(:standard -any); # use the -any option to turn on custom tags # e.g. I can use $r->item("Item Content") to create # Item...
Page Load Speed Improvements
I'm noodling away at my websites performance using the Google Page Speed plugin. It recommends losslessly compressing your images using a number of utilities. I mostly upload png format images so I ran the following on my Wordpress content folder to compress the...