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Many thanks to Elliot C. Back.

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By way of giving a little bit back to the community, I have created a unified desktop environment with Login Screen, Desktop, icons and sounds to provide a cohesive (to my mind) environment.

If you would like to try these out on your Ubuntu Desktop feel free to download the 19+ MB set here. Note the readme document which contains installation instructions.  I am guessing that this environment will work on any Gnome/ Debian base… but I have only tested it on Ubuntu 8.10.

Enjoy!

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As most of you probably already know, phpMyAdmin is a wonderful toolset. It makes database management and editting both simple and straightforward. However, one of the major drawbacks to the phpMyAdmin toolset is that it is VERY slow to upload large amounts of SQL or perform Database restores using the Import function. For those of us with large and very large MySQL databases this presents a major issue. So what can be done to get around the problem?

The obvious conclusion is that a tool other than phpMyAdmin is needed. MySQL Administrator is the tool I have discovered that works best for me. The tool is starightforward, secure, and fast. The process I have found to work is as follows:

• Download and install MySQL Administrator (and set it up so that it is able to log directly into your database server). This is easy to do; the only gotcha I encountered is: remember not to use http:// in your url address.
• “Connect” MySQL Administrator to the system where you keep your MySQL DB.
• Using the Backup function, create a backup of the DB and store it somewhere easy to locate.
• When you need to do a restore (or ‘yes’ even a copy) all you need do is log into MySQL Administrator, connect to your database system and access Restore Backup. Interestingly this backup need not have been generated via MySQL Administrator; I have used phpMyAdmin generated files successfully.
• If you are performing a simple restore, all you need to do is point the restore to the target DB and wait. In my expereince, it takes about 5 minutes to restore a 25MB database.

If this were all that we could do the tool, that would be enough, however, there are other useful functions that you can employ with a couple of small ‘tricks’. For example, if you want to create a new DB and freeze an old one, all you need to do is:

• create the new database per your usual process (remember the name you give to this new DB).
• backup the database you want to clone
• open a copy of the ‘backed up’ database in your favorite editor (I use geany)
• do a gloabl search and replace of the old database name with the new one- per the name you created in the first step above
• restore this editted file into your blank database using the functions within MySQL Administrator
• point your application to the database of your choosing– now that you have at least two.

I find this process to be extremely helpful in upgrading and testing systems.

I hope this little tutorial helpful. I wish I had figured this out years ago, myself.

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To learn more about this please visit the Ambient Webs LLC We Are Green page.

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I am registered as: rabideau on the DimDim site.

We will be exploring utilizing this technology for transitioning ideas etc. to our client base.

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The long and short of the issue is Plugins. Plugins can act as a significant drag on your site’s performance. We have noticed load times on this site approaching 11+ seconds (wayyyy to slow!). Now the load times are running at about 4.5 seconds (we think that’s much better!). In order to solve this load dilemma we have been using a set of free tools from Pingdom.

Areas of problems we noticed in our debug process included:

• misplaced and missing image directories in the tarski theme (we now have three directories of our little gif images… because of the errant calls within the theme internal calls)
• broken image links (yes we were part of the problem too…)
• numerous poor (read slooowwwwww) plugins; these are all removed

Additionally we have learned to remove any unused (not active) plugin. Inactive plugins can still act as a performance hit. And lastly, I scrubbed our DB. Numerous plugins had left a trail of unused tables and rows in our DB– the worst culprits were a forum plugin and an audit trail plugin.

Again, thank you to everyone for sticking with us. We appreciate your patience and hope you will find our little lessons-learned useful.

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We are pleased to announce that this site is now TreeMagic-Banyan enabled.

In order to invoke TreeMagic-Banyan simply select a word or phrase and double-click. A small popup will appear. Select the “portal” option and a secondary window will open highlighting you query results. The Portal popup is a fully operational Banyan portal. You may conduct additional queries and information investigations from within the new page.

We will be adding additional information resources to our portal site in the coming weeks.

For more details on TreeMagic Banyan read here …

If you wish to contact AmbientWebs with questions or issues regarding TreeMagic-Banyan, please use our Contact page.

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More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

To get started with WordPress, set it up on a web host for the most flexibility or get a free blog on WordPress.com.

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We spent a long time exploring the merits of java, hoping its scalability and efficient code protocols would lead us into developing a specialized CMS. What we did not realize was that java makes high demands on server side processing and memory. To run an interactive, dynamic site with high traffic requires a dedicated server with heaps of processing power and even more memory. It’s an expensive overhead. Putting all that back end power into a php platform would provide suerb results also and it did not seem to make sense to pursue the java route without taking a closer look at the php alternatives again.

A close favorite is Drupal. No-one can argue against the professionalism and quality control that Drupal has built into their CMS, but it does favor the experienced web master and programmer to get the best out of the system. That was not an issue for us personally, but we wanted to focus on a technology that was easy to use for our users and clients and that provided an out of the box solution for web publication.

WordPress fulfills that criteria and a lot more besides. Ease of use comes as standard, but when you look under the hood, one can see a wealth of code features that make it stand apart from the rest. Extensibility, connectivity and reliability are hallmarks that readily come to mind with WordPress. And so we made WordPress our codebase of choice to develop, expand and experiment with exciting new features. You will hear more about these as time goes on and we are very happy to share some of the goodies back with the Wordpress community.

So there’s our first post … what else to say, except

Three Cheers For WordPress!

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