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Archive for February, 2010

OpenPublish Demo at ADUG

Posted by Tom On February - 19 - 2010

This video is from Atlanta Drupal User Group (ADUG) member Kent Lester, and his presentation on Open Publish – the Drupal distribution created by Phase2 Technology.

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MySQLCheck For Quick Repair

Posted by Tom On February - 15 - 2010

Thanks to this tip on the Taragana blog, I was introduced to the mysqlcheck command. In a pinch, the following command will check, repair and optimize all tables in all databases on your MySQL server instance.

mysqlcheck -u root -p --auto-repair --check --optimize --all-databases

mysqlcheck is available in MySQL 3.23.38 and later.

The official documentation for mysqlcheck says: “The mysqlcheck client performs table maintenance: It checks, repairs, optimizes, or analyzes tables.” Now, this must be run on a MySQL instance that is currently running, unlike the myisamchk tool. So, you may want to stop all access to your instance. If you are using it for websites, perhaps kill HTTPD for a few minutes some other means.

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Internet Explorer iFrame Insanity – Lullabot

Posted by Tom On February - 15 - 2010

Here’s a great little article from the great folks over at Lullabot with a fix for why Internet Explorer insists on an ugly frame for black IFrames.

http://www.lullabot.com/blog/ie-iframe-insanity

To fix it you have to do this:

<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameBorder="0"></iframe>

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