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How to display nicely formatted PHP code in a WordPress post

I’ve been struggling for a while about how to embed PHP, HTML, or CSS code into WordPress posts so that they look good and are easy to understand. I found this list of 12 WordPress Plugins to Display and Highlight Code. I researched a few of them and finally settled on SyntaxHighlighter Evolved, which was […]

Running Ubuntu desktop on a Macbook Pro

So today, I decided I wanted to try out Ubuntu desktop. I wanted to make sure that a web development project looked correct in all of the browsers on Ubuntu like they look on Windows 7 and Mac OS X. Maybe, that was just the excuse I was needing to finally try Ubuntu desktop. I […]

The perils of running servers at Amazon EC2

Last week, some of our developers complained that they could not access our server that we have hosted at Amazon Web Services (AWS) / Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) environment intermittently every few minutes, but I was having no problems. The next day, I was now unable to get to the server. HTTP, HTTPS, SSH all […]

Problem creating an AMI from a running instance with ec2-bundle-vol

I’m writing this blog post in the hopes that some wise soul out there happens to read this post and responds with the answer. I am truly stumped. I’m running an instance store instance at Amazon. I would like to bundle a custom AMI in case something happens to the instance as it did to […]

How to recursively set the file permissions for all .php files on a *nix box

I had a need today to change the security of all .php files in a sub-directory, which contained dozens of sub-directories. I figured out how to do it recursively with the find command. In the example below, I set all *.php files to chmod 755. All other files with a file extension other than .php […]

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