If you spend as much time as I do in front of your computer you’ll know that the way the computer looks becomes a big deal. I like my computer to look cool, to look like anything other than every other computer at the store on the shelf, and changing the background only goes so [...]
So how do you setup, change and pimp out Linux / UNIX shell prompt? Most of us work with a shell prompt. By default most Linux distro displays hostname and current working directory. You can easily customize your prompt to display information important to you. In this small how to I will explain how to [...]
One of the most annoying things about my iPhone was that every time I connected it, it decided to open iPhoto just because there were a few photos I took with it. Don’t get me wrong, it was nice to import those into iPhoto occasionally, but not EVERY FREAKING TIME. The solution my friends lies [...]
As a designer developer, there are a few sites that I visit on a regular basis that I either gather inspiration from, post works to for critiquing, or just enjoy reading. This is a small working list, but these are the basics.
From time to time I have had the need to dump a directory of files to a directory file. Clients have backed up too much data and it’s caused issues trying to delete them. In our case, the tool we offered our clients only allowed the deletion of one file at a time. And when [...]
There are times in a web developers life cycle where you need to create a PHP script that does some maintenance to your site. In my case, I needed a script that cleanly backed up a MySQL database and email it to the client in question. It’s a fairly simple process, and I know that [...]
I had been hunting around looking for a MySQL backup script that I could provide to a few of my users that simply dumped the DB, compressed it and email it to the client as an attachment so they had the piece of mind that they had a backup. Upon much searching, I decided that [...]
This is a test post using my new iPhone 4. This is a very useful tool for people on the go that want to be able to manage their wordpress blog from anywhere. This could also be useful for people that are using wordpress MU (which is now deprecated, wordpress 3 contains the same code [...]
For some reason, on Ubuntu Server, the base installs of Apache 2 and PHP5 doesn’t install the MCrypt extension, This extension is used by phpMyAdmin and other PHP scripts for encrypting data (passwords, etc.), so it’s a very good tool to have. To install mCrypt for PHP5 on your Ubuntu Linux system: #> sudo apt-get [...]
If you spend as much time as I do in front of your computer you’ll know that the way the computer looks becomes a big deal. I like my computer to look cool, to look like anything other than every other computer at the store on the shelf, and changing the background only goes so [...]
So how do you setup, change and pimp out Linux / UNIX shell prompt? Most of us work with a shell prompt. By default most Linux distro displays hostname and current working directory. You can easily customize your prompt to display information important to you. In this small how to I will explain how to [...]
This tutorial is meant to help users who want to use the Ubuntu version of Linux as a webserver. This is not for a novice, though the instructions are pretty straightforward. This tutorial assumes that you have gone through the basic install of Ubuntu server and have configured it to be connected to the internet.
One of the most annoying things about my iPhone was that every time I connected it, it decided to open iPhoto just because there were a few photos I took with it. Don’t get me wrong, it was nice to import those into iPhoto occasionally, but not EVERY FREAKING TIME. The solution my friends lies [...]
As a designer developer, there are a few sites that I visit on a regular basis that I either gather inspiration from, post works to for critiquing, or just enjoy reading. This is a small working list, but these are the basics.
So here I am, a windows 2000 server that I remotely manage (forced, not by choice). If you are logged in via Remote Desktop Connection and conveniently just close the window or simply let the session expire and poof. 2 of those and you can’t connect. Now if your colo company is anything like mine, [...]
