Author Archives: stefano

Get domain from URL

Posted on January 10, 2012 by stefano

How to get the domain from the URL? It depends! Lately i’ve spent some time trying to figure out the best way to solve this problem. Scenario: a website reachable through two different second-level domains (and a bunch of third-level … Continue reading →

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WordPress and XML sitemaps plugins

Posted on January 21, 2011 by stefano

If you have a WordPress with multisite feature enabled, you may have experienced problems in finding the right plugin to generate a XML sitemap to submit to search engines. I usually use Google XML Sitemaps, maybe the most used plugins … Continue reading →

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Pidgin cannot connect to MSN: the certificate chain presented is invalid

Posted on November 18, 2010 by stefano

The certificate for omega.contacts.msn.com could not be validated. The certificate chain presented is invalid. If you have an error when trying to connect to MSN messenger with your pidgin today, this is the easy and quick way to fix the … Continue reading →

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WordPress, Feedburner and sitemaps

Posted on June 8, 2010 by stefano

UPDATE (19/03/2011): it seems the last version of the plugin already takes care of Googlebot, so this post has to be considered outdated. If you use Feedburner for your wordpress feed, you probably use the FD Feedburner plugin for WordPress … Continue reading →

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Nice try

Posted on October 14, 2009 by stefano

Derek Powazek – Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists. This is a kind of link baiting tactic i don’t like too much: the attack hook. This is why, for once, i’m using a nofollow attribute.

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Bigdump

Posted on May 8, 2009 by stefano

Moving a website to a new hosting, i had the problem of importing the database. In fact, export was too much big (30Mb) compared to allowed size of upload files via phpmyadmin on new hosting (1Mb – where “M” maybe … Continue reading →

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Spam of the day

Posted on March 9, 2009 by stefano

Just got yet another spam. But this one reminded me of a funny quote. Email’s subject was: Millions of customers can’t be wrong! (and then usual stuff about penis enlargement bla bla bla ). Well, this is what immediately came … Continue reading →

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Free IQ Test

Posted on November 21, 2008 by stefano

Free-IQTest.net – IQ Test

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Wolda 2008

Posted on April 30, 2008 by stefano

This one is my favourite logo from Eulda 2007, European Logo Design Annual. Now, Eulda has gone global, becoming Wolda: Worldwide Logo Design Annual. As you can see on Wolda website, you can submit your logo for Wolda ’08: any … Continue reading →

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Web Analytics Jokes

Posted on January 7, 2008 by stefano

On 18th Dec 2007 Avinash Kaushik, author of Web Analytics: an hour a day, wrote a post intitled Web Analytics Demistified. On 7th Jan 2008 Eric T. Peterson, author of Web Analytics Demistified, wrote a post intitled Web Analytics: an … Continue reading →

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