Coding

Simple Changes to Secure Apache

Keep Updated You should update your linux settings no less than once a month. This will ensure that you are not running vulnerable technology. Remove Header Details / Disable Tokens When Apache web server generates any web pages or error pages, some important information about the version and other details implemented on the system are

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Useful Command Line Scripts

Below is a list of very common linux commands that any linux person should know by heart. From gzipping files, to running backups this is my personal cheat sheet Compressing Files and Folders Unzip 7z Archive 7za x myfiles.7z gzip File gzip -9 file gzip Folder tar -zcvf archive-name.tar.gz directory-name Uncompress Gzip File gzip -d

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Basic Linux Commands For Managing A LAMPP Server

Frequently I am asked by clients for details on how to manage a lampp server. While I do not recommend that clients who are not familiar with systems mess with the core system there are a few simple tasks that anyone can do to back or restart basic systems. Let’s get started. First you need

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Open Source Projects and Contributions

My open source projects: These are projects that I’ve given back to the community. SynergyCMS 06 – Custom Content Management System on SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/projects/synergycms2006/ SynergyBugs – Very simple ticketing system and bug tracker http://code.google.com/p/synergybugs/ Country Data – Data object for getting country data in apps. http://code.google.com/p/countrydatasource/ StickyForms – A jQuery Plugin for remembering form values

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How to Clean Up Microsoft Word HTML Special Characters with PHP

If you’re like everyone else in programming you’ve learned to HATE Microsoft’s implementation of HTML and how badly they’ve screwed up the web. Here is a quick function to use to clear out a few common special characters and replace them with standard ones. This is quick and dirty, but it works great. If you

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Key PHP Developer’s Tools

Development Tools Netbeans – http://www.netbeans.org Dreamweaver for UI http://www.adobe.com Flux is good too and much cheaper (OSX Only) http://www.theescapers.com/flux/ TextWrangler for just simple text stuff (OSX Only) http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ or if you’re a PC person go with Notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Filezilla FTP for uploading and downloading to servers http://filezilla-project.org Google Chrome‘s built in developer tools rock http://chrome.google.com or Firefox with Web Developer

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Disable Netbeans Zoom

If you’re like me and struggling with the Zoom feature added to Netbeans that doesn’t include the Zoom reset option. Here’s how to disable it all together. Follow these steps: Open netbeans Preferences Click on Keymap Sort the Actions column by name and look for ‘Zoom Text In’ and ‘Zoom Text Out’ Click on the

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Webmaster Tools

All three major search engines provide webmaster tools that give you detailed information and statistics about how they see and crawl your website. In order to access most of the features, you will have to verify your sites.  Here are links to each service and examples of each ones META tags. Google Webmaster Tools Example: <meta

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