Creating a new WordPress user when you don’t have access to WordPress but do have access to the hosting control panel is rather simple. Creating a new WordPress admin account can be done with the following MySQL query Click To Tweet Simply replace the strings in the first INSERT query that are wrapped around square… Read more »
Posts By: Tim Groeneveld
Always take the shot
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky
Checking what processes need to be restarted after a system upgrade
With updates going on in the last couple of months for various packages, such as OpenSSL and GLibC which have fixed a number of important security vulnerabilities, I thought I might share a one liner that might save you one day. sudo lsof -n | grep -v \#prelink\# | grep -e ‘\.so’ | grep -e… Read more »
Taylor Otwell on Laravel
I promised myself never to release Laravel until I had great documentation, and I never release a new version until the documentation is totally up to date. Any PHP programmer can pick up Laravel and start using it in a matter of minutes. The expressiveness of the code itself and the great documentation truly make coding enjoyable. http://taylorotwell.tumblr.com/post/21038245018/why-laravel
Google+: Please give us a write API
It seems that Google has been on a relentless campaign to get Google+ to work. From only allowing YouTube users to comment with a Google+ account to their desperate attempts to integrate it into Google’s own search results (which seem to be all but gone now…) it all seems to be very pointless on Google’s… Read more »
Using files or Semaphores for long running process locks with PHP
Last week I spoke at SydPHP, which was hilariously horrible due to my lack of public speaking skills. During my Introduction to Laravel & Composer there was a very interesting question posted asking about an issue that he came across while developing a cron that was running on his server. The process was set to… Read more »
Nagios plugin for checking the status of supervisord processes
If you have never used it before, supervisor is an application that runs on your server to monitor a number of different applications. With supervisord, you get all of the benefits of turning long-running applications into daemons without all the extra code required to make that happen natively. The configuration for supervisord is extremely flexible,… Read more »
The price of BitCoin
Installing all* the fonts on Red Hat EL6
I am currently working on a project that takes screenshots of websites, and needed a quick way to get the most common fonts installed on the screenshot server. This worked wonders (although, it still needs a bit of tuning, I will work on that later. yum install google-\*-fonts wine-fonts dejavu-\*-fonts
Internet Explorer 6 makes me sad.
In this day and age, I can’t believe that people are still using Internet Explorer. Because I am a good net citizen, I decided to help my uneducated users out. if (preg_match(‘/MSIE [456]/i’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’])) { require ‘templates/blank_development/ie6.php’; exit; }