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Jul 30: How to Import/Export Your Wordpress Blogroll… er, Your Links

It’s not immediately apparent how to import/export the links in your Wordpress blogroll. One would expect that the import/export tool, used to backup/restore Wordpress posts and pages would handle this functionality as well. But the import/export tool has many options. You need to select the Blogroll import option (located near the top of the list) [...]

Jul 29: How to Check if the Current Logged In User can Edit a Course in MOODLE Using the Has_capability Function

After an hour of fruitless searching through the docs and forums, I finally found an answer to my simple question, of course buried in the depths of the shark infested, murky water that is the Moodle code base .
How do I check if a user is a course creator for a given course? I’m still [...]

Jul 21: Recursively Zip Up a Directory while Excluding Certain Files Based on File Extension Type

In the example below, I’m going to zip up a directory that includes images in both PNG and PSD file formats. However, I want to exclude the PSDs because they are huge!

zip -r my-compressed-dir-without-psd.zip directory-to-zip -x ‘*.psd’

Jul 10: Uncompress A Bz2 File Using Tar Command

Uncompress a bz2 file using tar command

tar –use-compress-program bzip2 -xvf your-file-to-uncompress.tar.bz2

@source http://www.kde.gr.jp/help/doc/kdebase/doc/khelpcenter/faq/HTML/bzip2.html