What is 1e100.net?
So you are probably reading this because you are not sure what 1e100.net is or why you are being redirected via it when performing Google searches or …
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In-depth guides, insights, and best practices for modern software engineering
Hide all error messages PHP
PHP Error messages showing up in your web applications are a dangerous thing. Not only does it look unprofessional, but it is also a serious security …
Read Article →What is xmlrpc.php?
It is a script which allows clients to make procedural calls over the net.
As it says in the name, the encoding is XML and because it is used on …
Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications in a VM
Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications
I am running a Windows XP SP3 VM used for testing multiple versions of InternetExplorer through Virtualbox. …
Read Article →Force HTTP using htaccess
If you’re running a site on Apache and need to force all traffic over to HTTPS, you can do it with a simple .htaccess rewrite rule. This is one …
Stop That Referrer in PHP!
Today I will show you a method to stop the traffic that a referrer site is sending your way, you may wonder why you would want to ignore traffic, …
Read Article →Viva la 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!
You may see this around and not have a clue what the heck it is, weirdly enough, I did..
Why “weirdly” you ask, well, because, who would …
Ternary Operation
If you do not know what the Ternary operator is, or do not use it while you are coding, let me be the first to tell you how much you are missing out! …
Read Article →Oops the system encountered a problem (#104)
If you get the following error while using Google’s Gmail Service (gmail.com):
Oops? the system encountered a problem (#104)
..then you should …
Read Article →How to Write Unmaintainable Code
I have come across the following article before and again came across it today, after a revised browse through, I thought I may as well add another …
Read Article →Captcha Fail!
Hey, thought I’d just post this one incase anybody else sees it and thinks it’s funny.
This is not really a very helpful post like most …
Read Article →Test IE versions on any machine!
Do you do web development and are unable to test your software in old shitty versions of Internet Explorer?
If so then you may want to read on a …
Error 500 php_value .htaccess
I noticed on some server setups I could not do the following inside a .htacess file:
<br> php_value upload_max_filesize 250M<br> php_value …
Windows Directory Tree Never Finishes Loading?
I am running Windows 7 64-bit and since yesterday whenever I open “My Computer”/“Windows Explorer” (-Windows+E) the initial …
Read Article →CSS background image data: base64?
What the heck is all that Gobbledygook in the CSS?
So you have noticed that bit of css that says something like this in the CSS source-code and you …
Read Article →WordPress remove Subscribe to my RSS feed after posts
If you are running WordPress and have noticed a line under all your posts that says:
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! …
Read Article →And then there was Google Instant!
If you have visited the Google.co.uk homepage (Yes, that’s Google UK) recently – since about the 8th of September 2010 then you would have …
Read Article →[Solved] PHP’s typeof – gettype()
Quite often you may need the ability to check what type of data type a variable is.
In most programming languages this is possible to do and is …
Read Article →When to use SSL?
There has always been quite a lot of heated discussion around the question of when to use SSL and when to avoid it while building websites.
I have …
Read Article →IE6 PngFix in Javascript
As a web developer you will know just how much we all love hate Internet Explorer 6 – one of the most dreaded browsers and browser versions that still …
Read Article →MSSQL Select Not Null
I mainly use MySQL these days, so get screwed over for a few minutes when I have to do something in MSSQL that is slightly different when it comes to …
Read Article →What is __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz ?
If you’ve ever looked at your browser cookies and wondered what all those __utm entries are, they come from Google Analytics. Each one tracks …
How to Close Bandmix Account
If you want to close a Bandmix account, then:
- Login to bandmix.co.uk
- Go to Options – http://www.bandmix.co.uk/account/options/
- Click Decline Service …
Google Redirect Virus Fix!
Now this is an annoying one.
You go to any of google’s sites including any site that has google-analytics.com javascript included in it’s …