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Pligg Presentation at UTOSC

A reminder to all you Pliggers living out west. Pligg module developer Jesse Stay will be speaking at the Utah Open Source Conference this week. Jesse will be doing a presentation on developing Pligg modules and has created some great stuff for Pligg. I’m sure this will be a very informative presentation.

Here are the details from his site.

I’ve been asked to present on developing Pligg modules at the Utah Open Source Conference, September 6-8, 2007. So if you’re in the area and would like to learn how to write one, please be sure to attend! I’m thinking of going through a 15 minute or so walk through of creating a simple module to show how easy it is. This also means I’ve got to get my Email_Latest plugin fully functional and maybe make the Digg plugin a little better. Also, expect a Facebook module here shortly that will allow you to tie Pligg into Facebook Applications. What would you like to see in the presentation?

Thanks Jesse, and best of luck from all of us here at Pligg!

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Tutorial: RSS Importer

You can now download a flash (swf) movie tutorial teaching you how to use the RSS Importer that comes with Pligg. The RSS Importer is a great way to build up some stories in your site’s database to fill in some empty space early on. Let me know if you find any major errors in the movie that I need to fix.

Download it Here

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Back up MySQL using Dreamhost

I had a request today in the forum for instructions on how to backup MySQL data from a Dreamhost account. I do my best to support users who use Dreamhost because we make a few bucks from Dreamhost referrals and I use the service myself for some of my other sites. So I decided to put together a flash-video tutorial to help new Dreamhosters learn their way around the admin panel. This tutorial explains how to make backups of your MySQL database from Phpmyadmin and how to restore Dreamhost’s automatic restore points for MySQL.

View the tutorial here.

If you found this tutorial helpful check out my other Dreamhost-related video tutorials over at my other blog DreamNut.com.

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Request a Tutorial

I was about to sit down and start working on some new flash video tutorials to help users learn how to use Pligg, but I realized that I don’t know what people want to learn about first. If anyone has a specific question that they would like answered in a flash tutorial please leave a comment and I will try to respond to it if it’s a worthy topic. Hurry up and post comments everyone so I can start working!

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