NetSmarter @ 2008-08-22 01:17 (Web Design and Hosting)

If you ask my experience with SLhost.com. I'd just say: SLHost sucks.

I have been hosting a website with Slhost.com and recently it was down. I went to SlHost.com's support page looking for contact info. In this kind of emergency situation, I found the best way is to talk to them on the phone or do a live Chat. To my disappointment, there's no contact phone number on SlHost.com's website and on one page on SLhost'com I found a "live chat" button, which turned out to be fake because it links to nowhere.

So I had to email them. After half a day, I received an email telling me there're some server issue and "We have been working on this since 10am EST 8/20/08 and expect to be completed by 10am EST 8/21/08.". Now it's 8/22 and my site is still down! I emailed them and filled out online contact forms, but after two or three hours I still haven't got any reply from SLHost.com.

So, if you ask me to review SLhost.com's hosting service, I'd just say: SLHost sucks.

Category: Web Design and Hosting

Magazine Style Wordpress Theme

NetSmarter @ 2008-07-24 23:22 (Web Design and Hosting)

Found a nice magazines style wordpress theme branfordmagazine:

DEMO
DOWNLOAD
SUPPORT FORUMS
TUTORIALS

And there're a couple of lists for magazine style wordperss themes:

http://hackwordpress.com/best-magazine-style-wordpress-themes/

http://www.epicwebstrategies.com/11-free-magazine-style-wordpress-themes/

For a list of best wordpress themes, check out this site: http://www.bestwpthemes.com/

Category: Web Design and Hosting

Installing a CPAN Perl module from a non-root account

NetSmarter @ 2008-07-12 01:24 (Programming)

Source: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~you/notes/perl-module-install.html

Problem: you do not have root permission but want to install a Perl module in a local directory and the module can be located from your scripts.

CPAN Perl modules

Refer to Installing CPAN Modules and this section in the CPAN FAQ.

Download the Perl module

Find the Perl module you want. Google or the CPAN Search Site are usually good ways to find the module. Download a copy of the entire package (usually a .tar.gz, not the individual .pm "Perl module" file) into a download directory. I usually keep a directory named ~/downloads.

Install the Perl module into your ~/lib directory

Unpack the CPAN Perl module:

cd ~/src

tar -zxvf ~/downloads/Statistics-Descriptive-2.6.tar.gz

(The conventional installation method is:

cd
~/src/Statistics-Descriptive-2.6

perl Makefile.PL

make

make test

make install

)

But specify the installation into ~/lib/perl5 instead:

cd
~/src/Statistics-Descriptive-2.6

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/lib/perl5

make

make test

make install

Installing
/home/you/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/Statistics/Descriptive.pm

Writing
/home/you/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/cygwin-thread-multi-64int/auto/Statistics/Descriptive/.packlist

Appending installation info to
/home/you/lib/perl5/5.8.2/cygwin-thread-multi-64int/perllocal.pod

Change your Perl scripts so that they can find the Perl module that you have installed locally

See this section in the CPAN FAQ.

I prefer the first method that is mentioned, which is to set the environment variable. This is easy to do in a login script.

setenv PERL5LIB /path/to/module sets the environment variable PERL5LIB.

With Bash:

export
PERL5LIB=~/lib/perl5/site_perl

Remove the Perl module

Just remove the appropriate files from ~/lib/perl5. Or use the ExtUtils package to help you remove the files.

Category: Programming

Best of the Web Directory (BOTW) Promo Code (May 2009)

NetSmarter @ 2008-07-01 23:29 (Web Traffic and SEO)

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Category: Web Traffic and SEO