Django UnicodeEncodeError when uploading files
Often when you try to upload files with non-ASCII file namesin your Django application you get:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position N-N: ordinal not in range(128)It seems that it is quite common problem so I decided to list all solutions I found and I tried in one place.
read more »My site was listed as beautiful WordPress-powered website
Ann Cheen listed my site on her Showcase of Beautiful WordPress-Powered Websites post on Hongkiat.com (weblog dedicated to designers and bloggers). 
brscPicasa starts to live its own life
I’ve just got email from Softpedia team saying that they’ve added my brscPicasa plugin to their page. Nice
Purge configuration files of removed packages on Debian based systems
aptitude search '~c'
aptitude purge '~c'brscPicasa jQuery plugin released
I host most of my photos on Picasa Web Albums so I needed some simple way to embed my photos or whole albums on my WordPress blog (or on any other page). I did not want to insert any special tags or shortcodes on pages because I don’t like them and they look stupid if you turn off plugin that uses those shortcodes. I just wanted to insert link to Picasa photo or album page on my page and it should be changed into photo or list of photos automagically
WP Hive + W3 Total Cache
Recently I have discovered great caching plugin for WordPress: W3 Total Cache. I’m not going to write how to install and use it (well maybe I will in some other post later but there’s a lot of informations on the web about it) but I’ll tell you one thing: this plugin is much more powerful than very popular and commonly used WP Super Cache and you should at least try it. There is one problem with W3 Total Cache (W3TC) though: it’s not compatible with WP Hive plugin so if you’re using WP Hive you’ll have to hack W3TC and I’ll show you how I did it.
read more »Cloning vs copying virtual machines in VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a great virtualization software but it is sometimes hard to do some advanced tasks in it. One of those tasks can be creating copies of virtual machines.
read more »Multiple blogs and multiple languages with WP Hive
I have three sites on one WordPress installation thanks to great plugin called WP Hive. I’m not going to write about installation and configuration of this plugin because everything can be found on plugin page. I’ll just say that it’s very easy to setup and to use. However there can be one problem with WP Hive: it does not allow to have multiple blogs with different languages. But I found a simple solution for this and that’s why I’m writing this post
Enabling SFTP update option for WordPress
By default WordPress allows updates of itself, plugins and themes by FTP or FTPS connection. FTP is old and not very secure and should be avoided so it would be better to use much more secure connection type like SFTP (FTP over SSH). To make it available we need to install some packages on our server.
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