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BASH Script for WordPress Backups
A lot of people are worried about backing up their WordPress installs on a regular basis. I know. I get that. Here’s a script you can use if you have access to the shell. Put this sucker on cron (For many Linux distributions, you can put it in 1/etc/cron.daily if you have root access. Otherwise,…
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TextMate WordPress Widget Snippet « Mark on WordPress
TextMate WordPress Widget Snippet « Mark on WordPress.
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The Supreme Court Website: An Updated Redesign — Sunlight Foundation Blog
The Supreme Court Website: An Updated Redesign — Sunlight Foundation Blog.
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New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute by PC World: Yahoo! Tech
New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute by PC World: Yahoo! Tech .
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The BASIC Cloud Framework API
Last night, I spent the evening with a bunch of PHP developers in DC. This informal gathering in the DC-PHP community is a regular occurrence known as the DC PHP Beverage Subgroup – Virginia Chapter. There is also a DC-chapter that meets once a month as well. These two informal gatherings are for the sole…
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WordPress Bible Book Tour
From the moment I announced that I would be writing the WordPress Bible, friends and fans all over the world have been asking me to come to their city to do an event. Clearly, I would love to do such a thing, but without tremendous support it is not in the cards. However, more recently,…
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Crime Statistics in DC
After the news today that MSNBC.com acquired EveryBlock, a service that tracks local news in 12 different cities and organizes news, reviews, and other localized data into searchable locales (zip codes, neighborhoods, etc), I decided to poke around a bit. One of the areas that EveryBlock tracks is crime statistics and Washington, DC is one…
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Health Care Reform: Trillion Dollar Spitballs
Here in the doldrums of August, the debate around Health Care Reform spins wildly as both sides position themselves against a Trillion dollar problem that is the key point of the Obama agenda. Basically, the debate comes down to two perspectives, as it always does. On one side, the argument is made that the health…
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Bring Different Innovation to Washington
A few weeks ago, I received a call from my friend Robert Neelbauer at about 11 pm. He wanted to talk about innovation and technology startups in DC. For those who live around here, you know there’s not a lot of them. Mostly project-type things that entrepreneurs who work day jobs have cooking. And of…