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Using SQLite for this blog

July 1, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Just to let you know, I created a permanent page (as opposed to a blog article) called “PDO Powered“. You’ll find it in the left sidebar of the blog – right below the link to my  “About” page.

A few posts back when I wrote about a blog upgrade where I finally fixed my database tables and my performance issues, someone asked me if it were possible  that I create a pre-configured empty blog using SQLite. The reason being that it is no longer possible to configure a SQLite backend if you start off with the most recent version of WordPress.

The instruction set on my new page is meant to show you how to do that yourself. I also added a link to a tarball containing such a pre-configured blog so that you can use that too as a bootstrap for your own portable blog.

If you used my instructions or the tarball, it would be nice if you add a link to your blog in the comments section of the “PDO Powered” page (I will check for SPAM attempts!). Perhaps if enough independent blogs show up using SQLite, the WordPress developers will reconsider their point of view (they do not care for other database backends except MySQL).

Eric

Musings on Software Development With Linux

February 26, 2010 / / 2 Comments

A few weeks back Laurent Parenteau asked me to contribute a post to his series “Meet the Linux family” on the blog “Software Development with Linux“. Well here it is: http://laurentparenteau.com/blog/2010/02/meet-the-linux-family-eric-hameleers/ . Nothing spectacular, but just enough controversy (I hope… I wrote “Steve Balmer” and “Eric Raymond” on the same page) to make it interesting for you to read.

Eric

Gravatars

September 15, 2008 / / 0 Comments

In case you wonder why some of the posts in the “Comments” section of my posts have nice pictures of the poster… these pics are gravatars or “Globally Recognized Avatars”.

How does that work? The blog calculates a md5-hash of the email address you enter as part of the comment and looks that up at http://www.gravatar.org/ . If you have an account there and combined a picture with your email address, the picture will automatically show up next to your name in the comment.

This is the URL that uses the md5sum of my own email address – clicking on it will retrieve my picture: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97. Using a hash instead of the email address allows you to enter your email address for the display of your gravatar, at the same time preventing other visitors (and spam harvesters) to find out about your email address.

Neat, huh?

Most blog software supports the use of gravatars. You can even have multiple images, and assign ratings to them so that “family-safe” web sites will not suddenly show shocking pictures of yourself.

Eric

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