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A lot has changed since the last blog post (more than three years). I was happily running a successful business around Videocache till Google decided to push HTTPS really hard and enforced SSL ev...

https://gofedora.com/catching-up/

I have been using Git for years now and I am still a novice user. Actually, if you are an individual developer or work in a really small team, you don’t really need to go beyond using the basic...

https://gofedora.com/getting-started-with-git/

Memepress is a wordpress plugin which provides wordpress widgets for displaying public posts from Yahoo! Meme. Memepress is SEO ready and provides options to noindex/nofollow your Meme posts. New...

https://gofedora.com/news-memepress-yahoo-meme-wordpress-plugin-version-0-3/

Thanks for an awesome response to the Memepress (Yahoo! Meme) WordPress plugin. A lot of people have blogged about it and contacted me via email for enhancements. New version also fixes the bug r...

https://gofedora.com/memepress-ready-translated-supports-turkish/

As promised in my previous post, here is a brief howto on getting started with twython. The main advantage of Twython over several other python (or any other language) wrappers for Twitter API is...

https://gofedora.com/how-to-install-use-twython-python-wrapper-for-twitter-api/

I was really late to join Twitter. As soon as I joined Twitter, I started exploring various aspects of Twitter and hence the Twitter API. While searching for a wrapper for Twitter API in python, ...

https://gofedora.com/love-twitter-love-python-love-twython/

I was playing around with Ruby on Rails and needed an email field for some application. I thought of validating the email address before actually saving it. Googled for same and got tons of resul...

https://gofedora.com/tip-simple-regular-expressi-email-validation/

Note: These tricks apply to any Linux based OS. But I have tested them only on Fedora, so can’t say whether they’ll work on other Linux(s). My current Fedora installation is now almost one an...

https://gofedora.com/how-to-boot-fedora-faster/

I was searching for a simple tool which can do a port scanning in a huge network quickly without making me wait for ages. I first thought of using nmap, but it was a bit too complex and it takes ...

https://gofedora.com/hack-fast-network-scanning-program/

Mission To write a custom Python program which can act as a plugin for Squid to redirect a given URL to another URL. This is useful when already existing redirector plugins for Squid doesn’t su...

https://gofedora.com/how-to-write-custom-redirector-rewritor-plugin-squid-python/