Headers Already Sent

“We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.” - Kalu Rinpoche

Cool.

…so let’s hope the Reg is wrong about this one, k?

Today I managed to get two little projects I’ve been playing with finalised. I’m putting them under a new section of my site called ‘tools’ and hopefully I’ll add a few more in the near future. Firstly, I’ve made a useful web safe colour chart for reference. This is nothing special really, but it’s quite cool because the table full of colours has been generated using Javascript and you can easily get the RBG value for the colour by clicking it. I’ve linked to the code from the project page, so feel free to download and have a look.

Secondly, I’ve written a conversion tool that allows you to convert between Decimal, Hexadecimal, Binary and Octal easily. Again, the code is freely available so if you have a need for it, go and download.

I’ve tested these in IE and FF and they both seem fine. There are probably one or two niggly bugs in there somewhere though (I think I remember seeing an integer overflow a few days ago). If you find anything serious please tell me.

Lastly, you can play with them at mikelaming.com/tools.

I’ve moved my blog from blog.mikelaming.com to mikelaming.com/blog, although the former will still redirect. There were a few reasons for this, none of which are interesting, nor important.

Anyway, for anyone else going through the process of moving a wordpress installation, here are my directions.

• Copy all your files over to your new server.
• Create a new database on your new server.
• Edit wp-config.php and update it with your new database settings.
• Using phpmyadmin or similar export your database. Make a backup of this incase it all goes wrong.
• Open the database export sql file and do a find and replace on old url/path, to the new url/path you are migrating to.
• Upload tables to new database.
• Go to http://example.com/blog/wp-login.php and change your site options.
• Make sure you chmod the necessary directories, like ‘uploads’ correctly.
• Make sure your .htaccess file has been updated too, as to preserve permalink structure.

If this fails, wordpress have a tutorial here.

My VPS has just been relocated from Dallas to Chicago. With that not only do I get lower latency but also a 128 MB RAM upgrade and a nice shiny new block of IP addresses.

For those interested my VPS provider is futurehosting.biz and I really recommend them. Also, with the dollar so weak at the moment going with an American company is really worthwhile - a $50/month VPS is only around £25.