My old WordPress blog is located at http://www.codingbeaver.com and I would like to move it to the new location at https://learningpenguin.net, also I would like to redirect user automatically to the same post on the new site. For example, if user comes to my old site through search engine for a post like this: http://www.myolddomain.com/index.php/2009/11/30/wordpress-won-2009-open-source-cms-award/, I would like to redirect them to my new site as this: https://learningpenguin.net/index.php/2009/11/30/wordpress-won-2009-open-source-cms-award/, here is how I did it: 1. […]
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WordPress 2.9 is available now. Among the new features it provides, I like the feature that make embedding video in blog much easier. All you need to do is to post the video URL in plain text in your blog and WordPress will take care of the rest. How cool is that? Here is an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY8pcbz-jiQ
Congratulations to the WordPress developers on winning 2009 Open Source CMS Award: Overall Best Open Source CMS Award. For more information, read this blog post on WordPress.org web site. For a complete list of the winners, check Open Source CMS Award web site. Way to go, WordPress!
As I mentioned in my previous post, Microsoft Office 2010 introduced many new features to help user to get their work done more quickly and more safely. Protected View is one of the new security features introduced to add another security layer to protect user when working with potentially harmful documents. The basic idea of the Protected View is to provide a sandbox environment to allow user to preview untrusted or potentially harmful documents, so […]
Microsoft released the first public beta of Office 2010 two days ago, within one month after the release of Windows 7. There are some major feature changes from Office 2007 plus some UI changes. For example, Office 2010 has a native 64-bit version that enables user to work on files or databases larger than 2GB. There are also some new security changes in Office 2010 to provide more protection against malicious attacks, for instance, Data […]
Peek, Snap, and Shake are three interesting, fun, and useful features in Windows 7. Peek If you have multiple windows open, when you move your mouse over the icon of an application at the taskbar, a small thumbnail window will popup to let you peek the actual window before maximizing or switching to it. What is more, when you move your mouse over the thumbnail window, a “X” button will appear at the right top […]
Mozilla community released Firefox 3.6 Beta 3, which contains over 80 bug fixes from the last beta release. If you are a Firefox fan, you should give it a try. How to run Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 in Ubuntu? 1. Download the tar package of Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 2. Unzip the tar package to a folder 3. Open the folder, find a file named “firefox” 4. Double click “firefox” to launch Firefox 3.6 Beta […]
First of all, I consider myself far from a Linux fanboy, and I myself have many frustrations with Ubuntu too, but I would not make unprofessional reviews as Andrew Thomas did. As a technical writer of TG Daily, Andrew Thomas recently wrote two most biased reviews I’ve ever read on Ubuntu 9.10 RC: here and here. As a matter of fact, the article titled “Ubuntu is still rubbish” is rubbish itself. It is absolutely stupid […]
I haven’t writen many posts in the past a few weeks because of my crazy schedule. Finally I had some free time this afternoon to write something and noticed that a hardening release of WordPress was rolled out, and with the built-in one-click upgrade feature, my blog is up to date now.
I am currently working on creating a web site with Drupal for a customer and I am planning to write some tutorials on using Drupal. Stay tuned.