Need to determine who is connected to your MySQL server and how many connections they have open? I tossed together this little script to display the information. [bash] #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; use 5.010; use Getopt::Long; # Set defaults my $host = ‘localhost’; my $db = ‘information_schema’; my $user = ”; my $pass = ”; #
Autocomplete git branches and commands in bash
The tab completion for commands in bash is awesome, but it does not work for bash out of the box. Lucky for us it is relatively easy to get bash completion working. You will need two things, a copy of the completion script and an update to your bash profile. The completion script is available
Prevent WordPress plugins from requesting updates
Ever need to “lock” a plugin into a specific version and do not want it showing in the updates list and getting accidentally updated? This quick snippet allows you to specify a plugin(s) that should not appear in the update list. This will effectively block them from updating through WordPress itself. Manual updates/changes to the
Fix “frozen” Evernote app when fullscreen on OS X
The Problem: When you start Evernote it goes into fullscreen mode. You are not able to use any features of Evernote and hear the “Do not click me” error sound. The Cause: There is some sort of message box that has popped up. You need to close this before using Evernote, however it has popped
Getting social media shares with php
Quick snippets to help me (and maybe you!) remember how to quickly and easily get share counts from social networks. What other networks would you like to see? Facebook [php] function facebook_share_count( $post_id ) { $api = "https://graph.facebook.com/"; $url = $api . urlencode( get_permalink( $post_id ) ); $response = wp_remote_get( $url ); if( is_wp_error( $response