May 31, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Search and Delete Files less than 1 hour old with vbscript

Ran into a situation where temporary created files were filling the drives of a Windows 2003 server. So I turned to vbscript and creating a scheduled task to keep the space issue at bay. Here is the script. ‘ VBscript to delete files older than 1 hour ‘ directory to delete ‘ cleanoldfiles.vbs ‘ change dir variable to directory to target files sdir=”d:\my dir” dim dt,... read more

May 12, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Quick and Easy Backup Batch File Windows

Backups are an evil necessity and as with most geek admins we tend to forget to do it. We think of grand schemes and how we can do it better. Well I am still thinking of those grad schemes but in the meantime I use a simple command file to backup file off one drive to another that will only copy newer files. What is so nice with this is I don’t have to have a backup program to retrieve the data, but... read more

May 8, 2011 Posted by newlife007

WordPress on XAMPP

Recently after installing XAMPP on my system I wanted to start developing WordPress themes. The best way to accomplish this with Dreamweaver CS5 is to have a local install so that editing the files locally was easy. Looking around I found this is really an easy task to accomplish. First download the latest from WordPress. Once the download is completed unzip the files to C:\xampp\htdocs, this will create... read more

May 8, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Quick and Easy Apache/PHP/MySQL on Windows

While working on a website for a customer came upon a connectivity issue while working on a laptop getting to the Linux server to test the code. I thought about installing Apache / MySQL / PHP all locally on the laptop and setup a testing server, when I stumbled on XAMPP. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use –... read more

May 5, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Remotely Posting Blogs WordPress 3.1

Recently I found the need to be able to use a Weblog client to connect to the sites and post content. There are several clients available to handle this task for Linux, MacOSX and Windows. As a matter of fact this post was created using GScribble (Linux). Installing the Weblog Client and trying to connect immediately will not work. You have to enable “Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog... read more