Category Archives: Software

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it seems the last version of the plugin already takes care of Googlebot, so this post has to be considered outdated.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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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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302 loops with Pligg

Posted on August 14, 2007 by stefano

Yesterday i spent many hours trying to fix a 302 loop with Pligg (a great piece of open source software to create a Digg clone site), so i’m gonna post here the (easy) solution, just in case someone else have … Continue reading →

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Mass mailing software

Posted on May 17, 2007 by stefano

If you are looking for a versatile mass mailing software, written in PHP and freely provided under the GPL, you should definitely try poMMo.

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