Why you should or shouldn’t use www. infront of your domain name
I always thought this was a stupid topic that people would fight about. For a period of time I would make my sites not even care if its www.example.com or example.com. The short conclusion of this topic is simply this. Either work great, but you need to pick one or the other. SEO The big reason you find people telling you to do this is [...]
Best Practice – Unstandard Naming
So again today my webserver has been hit by another person using a vulnerability scanner trying to find something to hack into. Harmless as it may seem this could be the start of a serious server takeover. Once a vulnerable application like an old version of PHPmyAdmin is found, it could be only a matter of time before your [...]
WebAssist Plugins Spyware? – How to remove WebAssist
If you ever got the error : Unable to find WA_memento.htm Or if you have strange errors that occur every time you save or open files. Or if your pages don’t load include files. Or anything else strange and you have installed a WebAssist plugin, you may be surprised to find that uninstalling the plugin does nothing to help your [...]
Best Practice Web Application Password Hashing
A primary reason for hashing is to stop a potential hacker from getting usable data once they have broken into your server. Poorly built websites do not hash their passwords and since most users reuse their username and passwords, you are actually endangering every user that uses your services. For a business, this can be a [...]
PHP Server Monitoring
So with the company I need a better way to monitor all of the servers/domain names that we run. I need something that can run automatically in cron but display graphs of performance. You see there is a full spectrum between online and offline. Often you can see signs of a server about to go down by graphing its performance. Also since [...]
Kindle, Nook, Libre Ebook Readers
I’ve been in the market trying to buy an ebook reader. After holding all of these, I came to the conclusion to not buy any of them. They are either too small to be useful or slow interface or both. Amazon Kindle Review Probably the best of the bunch, it has a nice 3G network, Amazon accessible, use of a memory card to add books, [...]
Single File Javascript Addons
Once again I’m looking to add some fancier UI to my web projects and run into the same problem, most javascript UI elements are a mess of files. I was looking at adding a date picker, just a simple one to a website. I download one and find that it is about 20 files. Its not a lot compared to the project but I don’t want to [...]