http://web-developer.sitecritic.net Search Engine Optimisation, Website Development, PHP, MYSQL, OOP, Internet Programming, Linux, Debian, Redhat, PERL, Bash, Networking, DRBD, redundancy, ISCSI, RAID, XEN, Virtualisation, IP, Unix Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:02:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you navigate using the arrow keys in vim, you might get some funny characters like A, B, C...etc. In .vimrc, add this line: :set nocompatible This should do the trick. http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/2007/10/16/arrow-keys-in-vim/ If you wish to check that your web application is working fine (people are able to login), you can run a script to automate the login process. It is possible to use cron to do it but with nagios, you could do much more. Nagios is highly configurable and it ... http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/2007/09/20/simulate-login-checks-with-nagios/ I installed a linux network printer for a friend and thought I post the steps here. First of all, find out the ip address of the printer. Go to http://localhost:631 to add a printer. You might need root access.Under device, choose ipp and in Device URI, type ipp://hostname/ipp/. Then add ... http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/2007/09/12/linux-network-printing/ I find remembering passwords the hardest thing in life. When creating user accounts on the net, we often need the username and password. To save trouble, a lot of people use the same username and password in alot of places - including bank accounts! Not every website uses encryption for password, ... http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/2007/09/11/internet-security-is-about-common-sense/ if you are using vim and tries to copy and paste between windows or shells, you may find that vim adds some extra spaces / identations to your code. Irritation? yes. The quick solution is to do a :set noautoident or add this in the vimrc file to make it a default. http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/2007/09/07/copy-and-paste-between-vim-windows-stupid-indentation/ Another one of those mails... when will these things ever stop? President/ceo. Dear sir, RE-CONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ - VARIOUS SUPPLIES... My name is ( ABD-AL-RAHMAN) and this is an urgent contract.We have recieved an allocation for a contract to supply your company’s Product, this is a Multi Million Dollars worth of international supplies to Iraq. My ... http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/2007/08/06/iraq-spam-mail/ Pear often has alot of packages that are not yet in the debian repository... It make sense to create new pear-debian packages just to follow the protocol. Firstly, you will have to make sure that the package that you are trying to create is not yet available in the repository ... http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/2007/08/03/create-new-debian-package-from-scratch-extra-tips-for-php-pear-modules/ Yourframer is finally launched after putting in alot of hardwork. The program is designed with flexibility and expandability in mind. Anyone can simply transfer an image from anywhere and start framing almost instantaneously by inserting a simple javascript in their site. Say, for example in my flickr album, I can ... http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/2007/07/19/web20-online-picture-framing-application/ Some webpages are more important than the others and therefore get prioritised in the Google search results. One factor that detemines if a page is important or not is whether the page has original content. Therefore, to rank well in Google, you need ORIGINAL CONTENT!!! And that was what Matt kept preaching about... ... http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/2007/06/28/supplemental-index/ We must have received alot of emails everyday asking for link exchanges, help...etc. Most of these emails are mass mails generated by software. How can we know someone is really interested in contacting us? These are my thoughts: Clue 1: Talk about specific services that you offer, ie not something like ... http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/2007/05/18/how-to-detect-automated-mails/