By Amy Cavender. This week, I’d like to make a brief note about another helpful WordPress plugin. Sometimes, particularly if you’re running a WordPress network, you might need to access data about your users (e.g. email address, username, registration date, etc.) That information resides in the wp_users table of your installation’s MySQL database, and it’s a relatively simple matter to export the data from that table to a CSV file that can be imported into your favorite spreadsheet application. Read more...27 février 2016
Accessing Your WordPress Database with Adminer
By Amy Cavender. This week, I’d like to make a brief note about another helpful WordPress plugin. Sometimes, particularly if you’re running a WordPress network, you might need to access data about your users (e.g. email address, username, registration date, etc.) That information resides in the wp_users table of your installation’s MySQL database, and it’s a relatively simple matter to export the data from that table to a CSV file that can be imported into your favorite spreadsheet application. Read more...The Open Dissertation
By Maha Bali. Last week, Prof Hacker Lee Skallerup Bessette drove to Virginia Commonwealth University to livetweet the thesis defense of Laura Gogia (in some circles better known by her Twitter handle @GoogleGuacamole). The hashtag used was #GoGoDoc. Read more...When the Virtual and Physical Networks Converge
By Maha Bali. While curating the keyword Networks (with Mia Zamora) for the MLA collection entitled Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models and Experiments, we were reminded not to focus solely on digital networks to the exclusion of physical/analog ones. Read more...Basic Twitter Analysis with twXplorer
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. There have been a number of posts here on ProfHacker about using Twitter, particularly around archiving tweets. Our favorite method has been Martin Hawksey’s free TAGS template for Google Sheets. Read more...Create a New Habit with an App
By Natalie Houston. In Three Steps for Creating a New Habit, I outlined three key elements that can help you be successful in creating a new, positive habit, whether that’s related to writing, exercise, or rest and renewal. Read more...Three Steps for Creating a New Habit
By Natalie Houston. We’re seven weeks into the new year, and the January crowds at your gym or yoga class are probably starting to thin out now. Many people’s New Year’s goals have been set aside, maybe due to unrealistic expectations, or to the variety of unexpected obstacles (snow days, sickness, etc) that can get in the way of new habits. Read more...All the Changes We Do Not Notice
By Anne Curzan. I have been thinking a lot about button-down shirts recently. This is after many years of giving them — or at least giving the word for them — very little thought at all. More...
Big Trochee
By William Germano. It’s hard not to be familiar with the term Big Pharma, an acidulated nickname for the pharmaceutical business. More...
Me, Myself, I, and Yourselves Too
By Lucy Ferriss. The use of the reflexive pronoun in a nonreflexive way seems to be a growing phenomenon, but the data are mixed. Among the and -self phrases, and myself occurs most frequently, according to the Corpus of Contemporary American English as well as Google’s Ngram Viewer – but and myself, per COCA, has declined significantly since 1990, whereas and himself has risen. More...
Plotting Punctuation
By Lucy Ferriss. Anyone who writes seriously pays attention to punctuation; we know that. That devilish comma in the Second Amendment has spawned countless 21st-century opinion columns despite its obvious roots in 18th-century conventions. More...
