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posted February 24th, 2010

One of the most apparent aspects of both my professional and personal life is that I am always learning. As my friends and family can tell you, I constantly have my nose in something and am very eager to share what I just learned. As I have written about what I have learned here, I have realized that I have been holding back on something important: how do I choose what I want to learn next.

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Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by Simon on July 9th, 2010

This is great, thanks so much for posting. I was having problems using the wp_enqueue_script('media-upload'); - I was getting the properly sized editor but my custom

Apache Optimization and NGINX

by John Hoff on June 2nd, 2010

Tom, Two other reasons besides mod_php quickly come to mind on why I use prefork apache--mod_perl and mod_python. The solution of using NGINX as a

Apache Optimization and NGINX

by Tom D on June 2nd, 2010

Hi, Thanks for a good article. I realize most people use apache prefork because of thread safety issues with worker (or more likely because that's how

Wordpress Custom Field Search Plugin

by Tom Lany on May 28th, 2010

Thanks for sharing this! I have been needing some way to search through authors (that I store in custom fields) for along time, and

Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by John Hoff on April 17th, 2010

The media-upload script needs to be called before wordpress starts sending content to the browser. By the time it starts parsing banner.php, it is

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Custom Field Searching WordPress Using Sphinx

posted May 20th, 2009 by John Hoff

In my previous post on implementing a custom field search in Wordpress, I showed how to modify the internal SQL LIKE search that is the default search engine of Wordpress. There are other search engines that Wordpress can make use of, most notably Sphinx Search.

Tags: php, sphinx, sql, wordpress

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SQLAlchemy and memcached

posted March 11th, 2009 by John Hoff

I think it is safe to say that my personal goal of learning and using Python this winter has been a huge success! I have now found myself hard at work on a large Python-based project in my spare time and investigating issues that I haven't been able to track down much documentation on. How to use Memcached in conjunction with SQLAlchemy was one of those issues.

Tags: memcached, Python, sql, SQLAlchemy

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WordPress Custom Field Search Plugin

posted January 27th, 2009 by John Hoff

Some friends of mine that have started offering custom Wordpress designed sites and consulting hit me up a couple of weeks ago for some help. They had a site for a client that was utilizing custom fields to provide some additional CMS-like functionality to Wordpress and had hit a snag. Their custom fields were not being searched.

Tags: php, sql, wordpress