SimpleRSSEmbed – my first WordPress plugin

Posted on December 12, 2011August 10, 2025 by Christopher

Ok, I’ve been doing all sorts of things with WordPress for a while now, but oddly enough, I never actually wrote a plugin (although, in retrospect, I did a lot of template hacks that probably would have been easier to do as plugins). Anyway, I needed a plugin for a blog I was working on […]... Read More

Upgrading software RAID drives (and increase capacity)

Posted on December 7, 2011August 10, 2025 by Christopher

Disclaimer: This is one of those semi-selfish posts, where I need to perform a task that I do only once in a while. So, to save myself from having to search these steps every time, I’m documenting it here with the use of digital software as sodapdf that help with this. I hope someone else […]... Read More

Internet Hosting Solutions

Posted on November 24, 2011August 10, 2025 by Christopher

Web Hosting services are usually easy to use and get to store a website for your business. Websites that are not available on the Internet can be saved in such a manner to be available in the future. The service is available in an unlimited amount. After a period of 30 days all the files […]... Read More

Hello (again) world!

Posted on November 22, 2011August 10, 2025 by Christopher

Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve had a professional blog, (back when I was working for Terra Soft and managing YDL.net in fact) and my own website was worse than terrible. It’s ironic, because I was too busy building medium and large web systems for universities, SMBs and ISPs to actually keep my own […]... Read More

Postgresql, plperl and custom rowtypes

Posted on September 14, 2007August 10, 2025 by Christopher

I had a problem that I needed to solve recently, and the most elegant way to do this was with a stored procedure. However, the procedure needed to return 2 columns – an index id and a sort order. One way to tackle this is to have the plperl function called by a wrapping plpgsql […]... Read More

OpenSSL Self-Signed Certificate one-liner.

Posted on August 8, 2007August 10, 2025 by Christopher

Ok, this is a purely selfish post. I have to do this rarely enough that every time I do, I have to look it up. I could put this somewhere, perhaps in my little bag of tricks called ‘you should remember this’. Unfortunately, I don’t have that bag, and I’ll never remember it. So, hopefully […]... Read More

Fire!

Posted on July 26, 2007August 14, 2025 by Christopher

On Monday, my ‘net, phone and cable – all provided by the same company – were all knocked out by a big fire that destroyed 2 fairly popular bar/restaurants 2 blocks away (‘A’ is my place, ‘B’ is fire) from my place. I live in a part of Montréal called ‘the plateau’, which is a […]... Read More

Christopher Murtagh

Ponderer, feminist, musician and dad.