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What if there’s a WordPress widget that can display text on a specific section of your blog? Let’s say you have some bookmarking JavaScript that you only want displayed in posts but not on other WordPress pages.

This was the problem I wanted to solve. I searched for a widget that already does this, but found none. I didn’t think that this would be too hard to code myself and decided to give it a go. A few hours later; Section Specific Text Widget was born.

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As a server administrator, there’s nothing that bugs me more than services that die all of a sudden. For a web server, an hour’s down time could mean losing a few hundred visitors. This could translate to a loss of advertising income too if you serve ads on your web pages.

I found a snippet of code that I modified to use as a simple service monitoring and restarting tool that I would like to share with all of you.

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One priceless benefit of having a web hosting provider that gives you SSH access to the server is that there’s a wealth of command line tools that can make data management very easy for you. In this post, I’m going to illustrate how you can use some of MySQL’s command line tools to back up (export) and restore (import) your database.

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Wow, this is big news. Sun Microsystems, the company behind Java has agreed to purchase MySQL AB (developer of the MySQL open source database) for a mind-boggling US $1 billion.

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I received an email from Kay Mackenzie yesterday. In the email Kay states that she’s been using the Single Bookmark Category List WordPress Widget on her two blogs; Quilt Puppy Show & Tell and All About Applique. Both blogs focus on the topic of quilting. She liked the widget so much that she wanted to PayPal me a donation as a token of appreciation.

I’m very surprised that Kay was actually motivated enough to ask me as to whether I’d accept donations for creating the widget. Needless to say, it put a smile on my face. I provided her with my PayPal address and a few minutes ago I received a generous amount from her.

This is the first time I had received a donation from somebody who found that a few lines of code that I had given away for free is worth her time and money. For this, Mrs Kay Mackenzie, you will always have that special place in my heart and mind.

Thank you.