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The world is becoming more and more reliant on digital technology and digital communications. It is estimated that there are roughly 1.95 billion websites on the Internet right now. That number is only going to grow as the years go... Read more
I check the Nginx error log file regularly. I noticed that a lot of attempted accesses to favicon.ico coming from mainland China. They come from different IP addresses and with different User Agents. Each of these IPs is only doing... Read more
There is some files added to your git repository before you created .gitignore file. So they are already in the repos. Even you input the file name into .gitignore. It is still there. Every time you change this file. It... Read more
It works for phpBB 3.1.x, not just phpBB 3.1.6. For a national forum or global forum, it is a must to have a CDN support. The way I used is not a formal extension or plugin. It is a hack,... Read more
By default all links posted in the comments under your articles are turned by WordpPress into links. Unfortunately, this features encourages spammers to post many unwanted comments in your blog. To disable turning URLs from comments into actual links, go... Read more
What is Timthumb? It is a small php script for cropping, zooming and resizing web images (jpg, png, gif). Here is the official place to donwload the script. https://code.google.com/p/timthumb/ Even the developers said it is not supported any more,... Read more
In today’s highly advanced technological age, there has to be a place where those who understand the major components and aspects of code and sourcing gather together and hang out. The modern hangout for computer enthusiasts like coders is no... Read more
It is a very popular service on web application and mobile apps. I like its server service. The servers New Relic supported includes Linux, Windows.: Centos / Red Hat Ubuntu / Debian Other Linux Windows 2003, 2008 I followed the... Read more
This is an example from Wicked Cool PHP, an very handy book for daily PHP coding. I am reading this book now. It has 12 chapters, total 76 tips. Read more
Weekend, it is time for rest, but I am still keep my two week campaign moving on. Remove some old code from monthly archives. These code make the page shown very slow. Follow twelve people on twitter each day. Make... Read more
If you search by error code: PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function where() on a non-object in /home/username/sitename/joomla/components/com_users/models/registration.php on line 521 and landed here, you are very closed to the solutions. When a new user tried to register,... Read more
I have a forum running by phpBB 3. After upgrading to phpBB 3.0.10, the board notice said, from phpBB 3.1, the next version, it will not support php5.2. phpBB 3.1 “Ascraeus” to require PHP 5.3.2 My server is running php... Read more
I do a database backup very ofter with mysqldump command. Just found an error come when I run the command, mysqldump as below. mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ to database ‘information_schema’ when using LOCK TABLES I... Read more
If you have a Shaw remote control as below, you can use the code I provided below to program your device. This is Atlas PVR Universal Remote Control, which is preprogrammed to operate the Shaw cable box. To control devices... Read more
The Shaw Digital Cable Box has no power button. So It is very important to record the manual way to program it. The universal way to program it without code is not working. There four steps. Step 1, Turn on... Read more