Flying, Computers, and Food
In the introduction, I introduced you to the Amazon S3 service, and you signed up (that’s ok, you can pause me and do it now). Before we can start stuffing all our digital crap into the cloud, however, we need some tools. Put down the hammer, though, because these are Ruby tools, specifically, the s3sync tools.
Continue reading ‘Backing up to S3: Part 1 — Install s3sync.rb‘
It is generally accepted that regular backups to an ‘offsite’ location are a good idea — much like regular exercise. Since you’re reading this, you probably have trouble with both regular exercise and regular backups. It is beyond my ability to help with the exercise, but with the magic of the Amazon S3 service, I can help you with regular, offsite backups.
Despite the fact that there is a version of the profiles plug in at wordpress.org (here), there is a reason I don’t have it up here right now: It’s not quite ready to go.
I have gotten several messages regarding this, and wanted to provide a little proactive information. While the core of the new version of the profiles plug in works well, there are still a couple of issues with display side that need to be worked out.
In addition, I am having some trouble with the wp_rewrite mechanism and my permalinks aren’t going quite where I want them. If you have any experience with wp_rewrite, drop me a comment or send me a message.
In short, while profiles 2.0 Beta 1 works, the display code isn’t quite ready to go, and you probably shouldn’t use it unless you know what you’re about. I’m currently testing some updates, and should have a new version out over the weekend.
If (like your’s truly) you actually like Windows Vista (gasp!) and write your WordPress plugins using DreamWeaver (gasp! gasp!), then chances are when you go to upload a new plugin to the extend section at wordpress.org that you will have a problem.
You see, the readme.txt file that you created in dreamweaver probably has windows encoding, not UTF-8 encoding. Now I actually like DOS style line breaks (please don’t cancel my subscription to Wired!), but the snooty scripts at wordpress.org don’t like your DOS style line breaks, and refuse to do business with them (which is a distressing form of lineism. When will a file not be judged by the type of it’s line breaks . . . oh! the humanity).
In any case, if you have trouble getting your readme.txt to work, use the wonderful (read FREE) SafEEditor by Caphano and convert your files to UTF-8 (even though at heart, they’re still DOS files).
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