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A Dreamer, a Photographer, a Musician, a Webdesigner... sometimes a Java coder too: I am Niccolò Favari and this blog is about New Media, Creativity, Business, Communication, Entrepreneurship and lots more. Boring stuff indeed, because I am a very boring dude.

Well, what's the point? I have no point. I just keep writing. And it feels good.

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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Permanent Redirect (301) in plain PHP

Three simple lines made it

I just copied and pasted the above lines of code inside an empty file and renamed it to index.php, then putting it inside my /wordpress/ folder made the trick: no more 404 errors if someone visit www.flipthedolphin.com/wordpress/.
I found an interesting way to make redirects in ASP/VBscript, Javascript, ColdFusion and so on. [...]

Switched hosting provider, please notify on any error

I managed to switch to another hosting provider without going offline for a single minute. This is zero downtime but there may be minor glitches all over the site.
Let me show you why:

I exported the whole old wordpress 2.2 database in XML format and then reimported it in wordpress 2.3. Had to delete the [...]

Switching Hosting Provider, Service Issues

Since I’m moving this site (and this site alone) to another hosting provider, I’ll be doing some tweak and fix… so there will be downtimes and service interruptions. As you can see I no longer have categories: I’m going to re-categorize my past posts (and delete many of them) while moving towards Wordpress 2.3. I’ll [...]

Ubuntu 7.10 Released

Canonical has finally released, minutes ago, the brand new Linux “Gutsy Gibbon” Ubuntu 7.10.

The fastest method to get it is to grab the torrent file and download it with uTorrent (or any other torrent client you may use) or download from the mirrors. Needless to say that the net is now clogged.

I’m going to [...]

Street Fighter IV Announced

Street Fighter IV has been recently announced. It’s the continuation of Capcom’s long-running Street Fighter series, one of the most famous games ever created. It’s been announced yesterday in London at a press conference Capcom was holding.
The teaser trailer showed Ryu and Ken squaring off in a pre-rendered 3D brush stroke-painted style, but no [...]

Drupal vs Joomla - A brief comparison

I’ve installed both scripts on my Windows XP Professional Desktop Computer for a University project. I use Apache2Triad for all my local testings, designs, developments and setups.
Less is more
The Joomla setup file (tar.gz) is about 1.9MB for version 1.0.13 and 3.12MB for the 1.5RC2. This is well above the 733KB and 935KB of Drupal version [...]