Category Archives: Web Site

varun.org has a new home

Posted on May 5, 2008 by varun

It was high time to retire the nine year old 433 MHz box that was faithfully serving varun.org for all these years. The new “server” is a 1.6 GHz laptop running Ubuntu 8.04. While I was at it, decided to … Continue reading →

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Moving wordpress domains

Posted on May 5, 2008 by varun

A handy set of mysql commands to run when moving wordpress domains to make sure all the links are properly migrated: UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://www.old-domain.com’, ‘http://www.new-domain.com’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ‘siteurl’; UPDATE wp_posts SET … Continue reading →

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photos.varun.org has a new look

Posted on March 12, 2006 by varun

My photos website has been re-designed using JAlbum. I had been using gallery till now but after seeing how open and flexible JAlbum is, I decided to give it a try. Although gallery it is a great piece of software, … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.0

Posted on January 24, 2006 by varun

Just upgraded to WordPress 2.0. It has a decent default WYSIWIG editor with support to upload images. I would have liked the upload directory to be configurable instead of the hardcoded ‘uploads’. I like how you can resize the editor … Continue reading →

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Switched to WordPress

Posted on December 17, 2005 by varun

Finally after playing around with WordPress for a few days, I made the switch from blogger tonight.

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