Janik von Rotz

Manage multiple WordPress sites with Jetpack

Hurray, WordPress 4.1 and the Jetpack Plugin 3.3 has been released. Jetpack is a must have plugin for your WordPress site, it offers tons of new functions and integrates your blog neatly with your Wordpress.com account. If you haven’t already installed it, head right now to your plugin manager! With the last Update the developer have added a great feature. It’s now possible to manage the plugins for multiple Wordpress sites at one location. Here’s a screenshot, which shows the plugins admin panel of Wordpress.com.

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O3M 50 - Awesome Tomatoes

Is it difficult to get up in the morning? Hear this playlist and you’ll make your employer proud.

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Backup server installations

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/676d3ab77d9d48cba73e.

Introduction

This article shows a list of the most important files and folders of your VPC installations, you definitely should backup. It assumes you’ll run a daily backup for this ressources.

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Useful command aliases

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/5ac7998b00900a3680d7.

Introduction

This is a list of useful commandline aliases for your Ubuntu installation.

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Install Postfix with mail forwarding

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/janikvonrotz/b6bbaee6433e5d4d2771.

Introduction

Postfix is a commonly used MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) program that can receive, deliver or route emails. In this guide you’ll learn how to forward mails from a certain domain to another e-mail address. It’s a recommanded approach if you want to publish a mail contact based on your domain and redirect the received mails to another provider, such as Outlook or Gmail.

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Destruction

15 bucks, a golf club and a camera. This was the recent photography project of my friends. With a simple setup, we tried to get the perfect shot of a golf club hitting pottery. It was a lot of fun and in the end a big mess. Here are some of the results, every picture contains the original and the destroyed object:

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O3M 49 - See The Future (Indie)

A nice playlist to relax on a rainy sunday.

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Timelapse was yesterday

Constructed from a combined 150,000 photos, 450 hours of work, and 6 terabytes of data, photographer Julian Tryba’s innovative new short, Boston Layer-Lapse, is new approach to the traditional timelapse photography.

Checkout the exclusive interview with Julian on the creatorsproject.

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ILIAS Synchronising Tool

My university Hochschule Luzern uses ILIAS as an open source e-learning and content management platform.

The main part of the publishing process for ILIAS looks like this: The lectureres publish their content (presentations, scripts, software, ..) to ILIAS and the students download it afterwards. It is possible to set up a notification for related changes. However the students still have to copy the files to the local computer manually.

To make this a bit easier, I’ve developed a synchronisation tool with PowerShell. It consists of four script files:

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Backup your OneNote files

If you’re using OneDrive to sync your OneNote files, all OneNote data is stored online. There’s no “real” file containing your notes on your computer. However by default OneNote backs up your Notebook. But you might not be shure where that is?

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