Tips and self-reminders

Enabling remote MySQL access for Amazon EC2 servers

  1. Enable appropriate port (3306) and IP on Security Group on EC2 Management Console
  2. Run the following command on MySQL

GRANT ALL ON <database>.<tables>|<*> TO <username>@'<allowed ip>' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';

Scheduling posts on Wordpress

  1. Create a cron job on server to run wp_cron.php using /usr/bin/curl
  2. Note and test for proper domain name to IP on the DNS

Transparency PNG Fix for IE6

http://allinthehead.com/retro/338/supersleight-jquery-plugin