Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007

The French have come up with something I’ve been looking for a long time - a Prototype/Scriptaculous based DatePicker. (more…)
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007

There is a new resouce called AjaxRain that offers 665+ Ajax/Javascript/Dhtml examples and demos.
The best feature is you can filter results using the tag cloud for examples the just use your library of choice.
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Christopher J. Buckley has posted a good article on protecting against current spam attacks. Go on, take a look.
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Friday, August 17th, 2007

I recently setup awstats on two Intranet servers for a client. Local web server log analysis software seems to be going the way of the Big-eared Hopping Mouse.
- Analog hasn’t been updated in forever.
- Webalizer hasn’t been updated in forever.
- Firestats is fantastic, I use this on Internet based sites with Google Analytics
* It’s AJAX just doesn’t like mod_auth_ntlm or the other way round.
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Want to look up IP addresses to a geographical location? Firstly, download maxmind_geoip.php and GeoIP binary database from MaxMind. I copied them to a universal location on a server so I can use it across applications. (more…)
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Monday, August 13th, 2007

SpamAssassin is great. I wouldn’t run a mail server without it. Obviously it isn’t 100% from day one, thats where Bayes learning comes in. Yes, it auto-learns, but some times we want to convince it a little more.
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Monday, August 13th, 2007

The ColorSchemer guys have done a great job at listing all the browser-supported colo(u)rs by their name, rather than their Hex or RGB value.
If you are a coder, like me, it is a great reference for quickly picking colours when mocking up a web application.
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Like to be conspicuous? Like me.
Then use theĀ ServerTokens and expose_php options. On a production web server I generally set these two options, pretty much stops and zero day hack attempts and other such nonsense
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Caching stuff? Expiring stuff? Crap at math(s)? Too lazy to boot up a calculator?
Here’s a cheat sheet of seconds to a more readable time!
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

I’m sure there is a bug with ADOdb’s GetMenu() function
The documentation suggests ‘use $moreAttr to add additional attributes such as javascript or styles.’ (more…)
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