Personal blog of Josh Lyon

I set a lot of reminders for myself on my company e-mail and I don’t have a blackberry yet. I kind of want one for all the great features, but on the other hand I’m concerned with how connected that would make me and thus make me feel obligated to respond. Here’s a list of…

Here’s a quick code snippet on how to backup files and restore them from the shell. To back them up, run the following code: $ tar -zcvf filename.tar.gz folder/ To backup all files in the directory you are currently in, run: $ tar -zcvf filename.tar.gz . Here’s a breakout of the parameters: z – gzip…

The following is a short code snippet on how to view which MySQL databases are available for a user, then a command to back them up. This should work on Unix and Linux variants. To view what databases are available to be backed up, run the following command: $ mysql -u root -h localhost -p…

There was a very small issue with the DS-Syndicate module that broke the W3C Validation compliance. The img tag did not end with a forward slash. To fix this, simply open /modules/mod_ds-syndicate.php and on line 51, column 64 add a / to the end of the <img> tag so the line looks like: $mod_content .=…

I had about a 45 minute conversation with one of my Coworkers, Troy, about my webiste yesterday. I asked him to tell me three things he liked about the site and 3 he didn’t. The three things he liked about the site were harder for him to come up with than I expected it to…