Web Development, WordPress, Apache, .htaccess, tutorials, mod_rewrite, phpmailer, programming articles
Apache Directives and Modules on DreamHost
Apache .htaccess Directives and Loaded Modules allowed on DreamHost Apache Server 2 Setups.
The Final Countdown
Music for my home page.. thanks to Nintendo Wii, Mario Bro’s, and YouTube.
Renaming Sponsored Links in AdSense
Google AdSense calles their AdSense Ads, “Sponsored Links”, while Text-Link-Ads.com recommends “Sponsored By”. Of course it is against the Google Adsense TOS to rename your ads, but in general, for non-adsense, what do you like to call your sponsored links?
Top Javascript Code Snippets for 2007
Javascript examples for web developers in 2007. All of my favorite unobtrusive javascript code and javascript examples that I use while building best-practices web sites. If you are even a remotely talented webdesigner who utilizes javascript, you will love this article!
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Awk Tutorial and Introduction
While researching a unix/linux tool awk I came upon one of the most thorough and helpful tutorials I’ve ever seen devoted to a particular topic. It’s old-school just the way I like it. I contacted the author, Bruce Barnett because I just HAD to have this article for my readers, who are predominantly running solaris/unix/bsd/linux and he kindly gave permission.
What I think about DreamHost Web Hosting
You may have noticed that we do things a little differently around here. There’s a reason for that.
100 Alternative Search Engines
Check out ReadWriteWeb’s fantastic list of uniquely useful search engines, its a lot of fun!
Updated: AskApache Search Engine Verify
I just updated the AskApache Search Engine Verify Plugin for WordPress. Short and Sweet, it won’t slow down your blog at all, except for the additional crawling of your site by Slurp and Googlebot.
HTTP Status Codes and ErrorDocuments
There are a total of 57 HTTP Status Codes recognized by the Apache Web Server. Wouldn’t you like to see what all those headers and their output, ErrorDocuments look like?
The Song from the Ask.com commercial
Ask.com started going after Google with a TV commercial highlighting all the extra content-rich features available in the Ask.com search results.
The commercial is a very effective piece of marketing, and the song is pretty good too!
Pen-testing Security Tools
While testing the exploitability of your target and mapping out vulnerabilities it is important to gain access inside the targets defenses so that you can establish an internal foothold like a owned box or switch. This is so you can use a tool to discover the packet-filtering being used, and literally map out the firewall/IDS rules. Needless to say that really provides you with a lot more complete vulnerability assessment to help discover more weak spots in the system.
The Diary of An American Witchdoctor
Just wanted some bandwidth-free music for the home page~
Updated: WordPress RewriteRules Viewer Plugin
Updated to now also show the type of permalink configured for your blog. Including what type of internal permalinking, pathinfo, mod_rewrite, etc.. Also shows contents of blogs current .htaccess file and provides a link to directly edit.
SEO with Robots.txt
Very nice tutorial dealing with the robots.txt file. Shows examples for google and other search engines. Wordpress robots.txt and phpBB robots.txt sample files.
Abbr and Acronym examples
Acronym and Abbr examples from the W3C Quality Assurance Site.
PHP and AJAX shell console
Ever wanted to execute commands on your server through php? Now you can.
I’m calling this file (see below) shell.php and it allows you to run commands on your web server with the same permissions that your php executable has.
Compete Search Analytics officially opened to the public! It rocks!
I just received an email (I’m a VIP) from the Compete Search Analytics Team announcing that they are officially open to the public! Normally this would have 0 effect on me, I’m not into SEO tools, but this online resource is incredible!
Random Bits, the podcast that gives you an insiders view
I was over at Alex King’s blog today checking out his mobile web plugin for wordpress and I noticed some fresh podcasts from some of the industry’s finest. The feeds are .mp3 and are easy to find and browse on the search-this.com site. They have some pretty nice articles over there as well..
Website SEO Score Tool
Check out this free online SEO site-scoring tool. The SEO generated report is simple, neat, and helpful. The main thing I like about it is how it is a stand-alone website, a residual money making machine.
CSS Background Image Sprites
Using a CSS Background Image Sprite with the CSS background-position and background-image I can display all these icons: . I can even have them show up anywhere on the page!
Getting flash to show up in front of content
I used to have a problem of controlling flash elements on my sites.. On one site we have 6 different flash flv movies that are all the same size and are in the same position on the page. But only 1 is displayed at a time based on what the user wants to watch. So the selected flash movie needs to have the highest stacking order/zIndex.
Story by Author of PING for UNIX
Yes, it’s true! I’m the author of ping for UNIX. Ping is a little thousand-line hack that I wrote in an evening which practically everyone seems to know about. :-)
Language/Country specific Google Search Engine’s
Google’s Search Engine Hosting Servers automatically provide Internet users all over the world with a “localized” version of the incredible Google Search Engine that we know and love.
The REAL Way to Optimize AdSense
Optimizing the position, color, and size of AdSense Ads is confusing. The REAL way to optimize AdSense for clicks and revenue is using variations and measuring the results.
If you can crash your daemon, you likely have a security problem
Tons of awesome tips and tricks using netcat. Port redirector, nessus wrapper, capture exploits being sent by vuln scanners, etc. This is very useful for doing stuff like redirecting traffic through your firewall out to other places like web servers and mail hubs, while posing no risk to the firewall machine itself.
Apache HTTPD Google CSE
Apache Documentation Google Custom Search Engine is a great place to go looking for mod_rewrite, .htaccess, and other Apache HTTPD related topics.
Login to Google AdSense using PHP
Demo php cURL code, that automatically logs into Google AdSense, using cookies and post fields with the POST method.
Freshen your Anti-virus, Anti-Rootkits, and Anti-Spyware
I’ve tried 100’s of Anti-virus, Anti-Rootkit, and Anti-Spyware tools over the last 10 years, but it’s always good to re-examine your system’s security every couple of months.
WordPress RewriteRules Viewer
Often I am programming a plugin, or modifying my .htaccess rules, or editing a WordPress template file and I get stuck when it comes to how WordPress rewrites url’s internally. This simple plugin displays all the internal WordPress rewrites.
Speed Tips: Use Multiple SubDomains
To make your site even faster, serve certain content from different subdomains. The reason this works is amazingly cool!
