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Creating a child theme in WordPress

Inspired by an article on Habr, I decided to write my own take on creating a child theme in WordPress, since the Habr one has way too much text and explanati...

Install Mysql-Proxy into RedHat 6.4

While working with CentOS I had no issues to install Mysql-Proxy but with RedHad 6.4 this approach didn’t work. Here is why I made a second version on how to...

SED Cheat Sheet

Sed is a stream editor on UNIX-like operating systems that is used to filter and transform text.

Configuring ETags in IIS7

Entity tags (ETags) are the mechanism web servers and browsers use to determine whether an element in the browser cache matches the object on the server.

Daily statistics in AwStats

AwStats is a log file parser written in perl, with which you can keep statistics of site visits based on information from log files. As a rule, awstats disp...

AdSense in a dynamic WordPress sidebar

I’ve had an AdSense block sitting in my sidebar for a while now. It only recently occurred to me that the sidebar has a dynamic size (22% of the page body), ...

Perl Dancer + mysql + memcached

Most of the people writing Perl have heard about the Perl Dancer micro-framework. But did they use it for anything beyond generating a project, writing a ‘He...

IpTables NAT in 3 steps

NAT — Network address translation — is a handy feature of any firewall, letting you translate the IP addresses of transit packets.