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Maybe I should have known this. But I didn’t, to my detriment. Empty arrays are falsey. Like so. The rule that an empty array is falsey bit me when doing this sort of thing. Many SQL queries can return an empty result set, that is, a result set with zero rows in it. That’s a … Read more
I’ve been working on the SQLIite Object Cache plugin for WordPress. I’m using the APCu User Cache, php’s RAM cache subsystem, to accelerate cache lookups — specifically to support wp_cache_get() and wp_cache_get_multiple() operations. I’ve had to figure out a few things about this php feature. Here are some notes. Its documentation is not as comprehensive … Read more
Somebody asked how to set up a WordPress / WooCommerce shop with the Flatsome theme. Understand that this is a web site operations project, not a development project, at least until you get it basically working. For now, ignore any advice to use Bricks, Elementor, Divi or some other site builder. You’ve chosen Flatsome. Get … Read more
I started using UNIX when I loaded the 7th edition nine-track tape onto a PDP-11 in a university lab. The shell — bin/sh or as we put it back then, sh(1) — had a history command that would regurgitate recent command lines. I got in the habit of typing history | grep whatever to find … Read more
I find myself needing to hack ffmpeg metadata in order to post Gordon Bok’s collection of Kalmyk music. The files ripped by ITunes contain all sorts of metadata. It can be extracted by a command like this and the output looks like this, including a bunch of ITunes-specific metadata items, as well as identifying metadata. … Read more
I’ve been working on the SQLIite Object Cache plugin for WordPress, so I’ve had to figure out a few things about using SQLite itself and php’s SQLite3 extension. Here are some notes. There are various versions of the SQLite software around. If you will run your code on multiple different hosting providers and server configurations, … Read more
Here’s an oddity which baffled me and kept me from being able to use xdebug with PhpStorm for a while. I installed a bunch of different versions of php on my Ubuntu VM. I used Ondřej Surý’s repository, rigging my vm to install them like this. To get php5.5, use these commands: Then, I followed … Read more
Drupal is a open-source content management system, like WordPress. It’s very similar in many ways. Similarities to WordPress Differences from WordPress
Belties — Belted Galloway cattle — are a hardy breed of food animal. A few farms around Midcoast Maine raise them.
Recently I worked to help a local nonprofit org sign up and start using Google Workspace for Nonprofits. It’s basically private-labeled gmail and Google Drive. An org can use their own domain to get email. For example, if you use Google Workspace you can get your email at programs@example.org address instead of programs.example.org@gmail.com, or whatever. … Read more