If you are moving a forum to Vbulletin or, like me, need to move an existing Vbulletin install around, then you might end up using Vbulletin's "impex". Impex is an import system that allows you to import users, posts etc., from a very large number of bulletin board and forum software into Vbulletin. To save your sanity - remove the CMS / Forum software importers that you … [Read more...] about Using Vbulletin’s Impex Import System With Newer Versions of MySQL
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A Couple of WordPress Plugins and Tips To Help With Migration
Moving from MovableType to Wordpress involves a bit of fiddling about with redirects. How much fiddling you need to do will vary on your setup. In my case my MovableType URL structure was based loosely on a Wordpress one, as I'd migrated from Wordpress to MovableType previously. Of course if things were that simple life would be a lot easier - and probably a bit more boring … [Read more...] about A Couple of WordPress Plugins and Tips To Help With Migration
Playing With Lifestreams and SweetCron
A few months ago Stewart mentioned Sweetcron as a "lifestream" solution (You can see his here). A "lifestream" basically acts as an aggregator of all your online activities, as many of the online services that people use, such as Twitter, Flickr etc., publish your activity via RSS.I'd already been experimenting with Movable Type's Motion, which is a pretty cool addition to an … [Read more...] about Playing With Lifestreams and SweetCron
A Bit of SQL For Jobberbase Open Source Job Board
JobberBase is an open source job board application written in php / mysql.It's pretty powerful and is open source, so I've decided to use it for one of my many sideline projects that I promised myself to get off the ground this year.Unfortunately there wasn't any SQL for the counties of Ireland, so I did up a simple one last night.You can grab it hereThanks to Paul from … [Read more...] about A Bit of SQL For Jobberbase Open Source Job Board
Atmail Open – Slick Open Source Webmail
Over the past few years I've used several of the open source webmail solutions to access my mail when I've been on the move. Squirrelmail, for example, is quite functional, but the size of my personal mailbox has grown so big that it took forever for it to load.A few months ago the Atmail team announced an open source version of their webmail solution. I was interested in … [Read more...] about Atmail Open – Slick Open Source Webmail