October 2004
Nikto is a handy tool created by the folks at Cirt.Net for comprehensive scanning of your web servers’ security. As described on the Cirt site: [indent]Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server... Read More
It’s kind of funny. You write something for what will likely just be a small group of developers, thinking only with your PHP hat on and without considering the impact it might have elsewhere.... Read More
I got a call from a salesperson at a fledging search engine yesterday, asking me to pay money to market my business with his company. Here is how the call went: Him: Hi Andrew how are you today? Me:... Read More
Marco Tabini (of php|arch) is asking for PHP case studies: tales of PHP put to good use in the Enterprise (whatever you take that to mean). This really needs doing: unlike Java or C#, there... Read More
ScriptServer 0.3 is out. No exciting changes again – mainly cleaning up the way errors are handled. Do have a couple or more interesting example online now; Server Side Autocompletion –... Read More
Personal Hit Counter Shared Object Example >> Messing around with code in Flash MX / MX 2004 can produce some interesting results, some more useful than others, and in this case a quick and dirty... Read More
Josh Eichorn, is calling for help on phpDocumentor. If you’re looking for a worthwhile project to invest some spare time on (and perhaps add to your CV), phpDocumentor is it. It’s pretty... Read More
Last week a couple of clients came to grips with the fact that they weren’t taking enough action to grow their business. They are both smart, both likeable, and both want to build an IT... Read More
Been slowly evaluating some of the wiki’s out there over the past few months and going to (dare to) recommend one or two of the PHP wiki’s out there. The main reason for shopping around... Read More
Web CEO is the essential toolset for site owners who are serious about site promotion, maintenance, and traffic analysis. So says Brendon, as he test-drives the software on his own sites in this... Read More
The sudo command and capability (superuser do) can be a valuable tool when multiple users are responsible for managing parts of a server or servers. In particular, sudo is important when you need to... Read More
Given 1Gb of free disk space, what’s the first thing you want to do? Fill it! And what better way than Goollery; Goollery is a GMail based photo gallery. You can upload pictures from a website.... Read More
One of my favorite tricks to use in Illustrator which I forgot to mention in my “favorite Illustrator tips” blog is Ctrl-D (Command-D), which allows you to duplicate your last... Read More
Owen Winkler has a nice matrix of weblog platforms with requirements, capabilities, cost and more at his own WordPress-driven blog — asymptomatic. This can be a tricky area to track as there... Read More
