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Linux 2026/05/30 2 min read

Open PHP files in the right editor, automatically.

This is one of those cases when, viewing a file in your window manager, you see a .php file you want to quickly inspect. You double click on it, and… It quickly opens Geany, or your default quick file editor, but PHPStorm is already running right there… Or the opposite: you just want a quick peak for a single little…

Migrated to Linux and still under the process of recreating an enviro where I'm as productive as I was on Windows. Almost there with Git. Still got to find a simple yet rather complete graphic editing tool to replace a SUPER old version of Paint Shop Pro. So far my go-to solution is photopea.com

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WordPress 2007/10/27 2 min read

WordPress Upgrade Script

If you have shell access to your webserver, upgrading to the latest WordPress build can be a matter of painless seconds. As usual there is more than one way to do it, and here is one of these ways — the script I am using. < View plain text > code #!/bin/bash CURDIR=$(pwd) SITE="http://yoursite.com/blog" echo Updating Wordpress in $CURDIR echo…

Linux 2007/10/21 1 min read

Rebuilding suexec with Different Options on Ubuntu

The following is for my own reference, borrowed from there and duplicated here because the original blog looks inactive and a fine candidate for deletion next time their domain or hosting will expire. No questions on this please, this is not my area of expertise at all.

Code 2007/08/17 2 min read

What Chmod ? Symbolic to Octal Notation Perl Script

Have you ever "ls -l" a file or directory, watch its "-r-x–s-wT" symbolic notation and ask to yourself: "what the hell is that chmod ?". This was the case for me several times today, so before I spent 1 minute on thinking about the notation, I decided to spent 5 minutes on a quick Perl script. What Chmod converts those…

Code 2007/08/03 1 min read

How To Display UTF8 in your Putty Bash Shell

I was having a few reading problems on a server I've recently got my hands on: the locale is set to something like French UTF8, but Putty was displaying annoying ÃƒÂ© and stuff instead of accented characters. I was expecting the solution to be something linuxish like read boring man pages till I finally decide it's not worth the hassle…

Stats 2005/12/22 2 min read

Open PHP files in the right editor, automatically.

WordPress Upgrade Script

Rebuilding suexec with Different Options on Ubuntu

What Chmod ? Symbolic to Octal Notation Perl Script

How To Display UTF8 in your Putty Bash Shell

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