Recently I changed domain name of one of my other WordPress blogs. However after transferring I found that the GUId’s of the old posts were not updated. They were still referencing the old domain. This caused the feed of the new site to show incorrect domains. My initial thought was to to use a plugin, but it would have taken some time to search for the one I required. So the next best thing for me was to do a update on the post table directly from my hosting PHPMyAdmin interface.
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The home button on websites is dying, but should it?
Web designers make decisions on small details that can highly affect the website visitors’ experience. A recent study from Optimal Workshop, the company behind web experience research at companies like Netflix, Dropbox, and NASA, digs into the home link on websites, and whether it works better than the company logo in taking website users back to the main page.
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How to open various desktop applications from nodejs
The most commonly opened resources in a program are files, urls and database connections. he ‘Opn’ package allows you to open stuff like websites, files, executables in their respective desktop applications. The package is cross-platform.
I usually use the package during testing phase – opening various resources, mostly images and text files after execution of a program.
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Dash
Build beautiful web-based interfaces in Python. Dash is a Python framework for building analytical web applications. No JavaScript required.
Generate random strings using Regular Expressions in Nodejs
There are times when you need to generate random strings in your application. Maybe it is to fill a database table or an array for testing various algorithms. Regular Expressions are a powerful language tool for text searching and can also be used to generate strings based on a expression.
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How to check for DNS server speeds
As you may know DNS is a system by which a browser or other software converts a domain name to a IP4 or IP6 address. Each time we access a website the browser needs to convert the domain name to a IP4/IP6 address using a DNS server. The DNS server configured on your computer could be automatically selected by your service provider or hard-coded. A fast DNS server is one of the essential elements to a faster browsing experience.
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