About 2 years ago I was faced with fighting off a botnot for an online retailer I did work for. While I wont mention the name of the company it is an interesting story nonetheless. It started after the end of the business day. And went unnoticed until the next business day. Since that day… Read More »
Benefits Of Running And Top 20 Tips To Run Better Running is one of the most popular exercises for many reasons. For starters, running is one of those things you can do anytime or anywhere, and you don’t need any equipment besides a nice pair of running shoes. Especially if you are into Muay Thai or boxing,… Read More »
Been awhile since I’ve posted anything here. I’ve been busy lately working hard to get my latest web app online. Have a look and let me know what you think. If you want to try it out you’ll get a $15 free credit, good for a few months of service for a single site. Any… Read More »
Ello is this talk of the internet right now. A new social network, that doesn’t ask for, nor collects personal information. Every few months a new “Facebook-killer” pops up… but the ones that seem to get attention are the ones that specifically target all of the media published controversy surrounding facebook. Why Ello is Flawed?… Read More »
Shoutcast logs can be pretty big, if you don’t read them in line by line there is a fair chance of getting an out of memory error. The following function getShoutcastBW(logfile) simply returns the number of bytes streamed today out of the log. Good for calculating bandwidth. function my_strip($start,$end,$total){ $total = stristr($total,$start); $f2 = stristr($total,$end);… Read More »
I have a client who routinely deploys cloud servers and they like ISPConfig installed to serve as a hosting control panel. ISPConfig is great for your average customer to manage their server or even for a small hosting company to manage their servers. It is a cost effective alternative to commercial solutions like Plesk and… Read More »
Need A new password? Here is a randomly generated one: Here is the PHP code to generate these passwords: function genRandomString($length) { $length = 10; $characters = ‘123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopq3stuvwxyz!^+.?’; $string = “”; for ($p = 0; $p < $length; $p++) { $string .= $characters[mt_rand(0, strlen($characters))]; } return $string; }
Open source projects are an interesting thing. You work with developers you will likely never meet in person. Not too different than some of the professional projects I’m involved with. However, when building an open source video game, things like age differences, time differences, language barriers, and a multitude of other barriers come into play.… Read More »
I was recently tasked with a small project that had to pull commit logs from various subversion servers and repositories and display them on a web page. The process was a lot simplier than I first anticipated. Hopefully someone else will find this useful. This php code snippet requires that the server have SHELL_EXEC()… Read More »
I Don’t usually blog just to reproduce another thing I already saw, hense the slowness in new post. But I keep going back to this one.. It could be because I haven’t slept in two days or maybe I keep going back because it’s perfect… The article was here: http://blogs.sitepoint.com/12-tips-for-better-developer-communication/ I’ll Feel bad for reprinting… Read More »