88 results for: setup
Transitioning from a Home Office to a Virtual Office
The traditional concept of the office has undergone a substantial transformation in recent years. With advancements in technology and changes in work culture, more professionals are embracing remote work options, including the transition from home offices to virtual offices. While working from home has its advantages, such as flexibility and comfort,…
Category : Web marketing 08-03-2024 by Janeth Kent
How to record TV programs using VLC
VLC is much more than a simple media player. Behind its simple appearance, there are a lot of features, such as the ability to convert videos to audio format, repair corrupt or damaged MP4 videos, or even stream content from other devices over the local Wi-Fi network. Another useful but little-known…
Category : Software 08-06-2023 by Janeth Kent
Android Hidden Codes: unveiling custom dialer codes and their functionality
In the world of Android smartphones, there exist numerous hidden codes that can unlock a treasure trove of functionalities and features. These codes, known as custom dialer codes, provide access to various settings, diagnostics, and information that are not readily available through regular menus. In this article, we will explore…
Category : Mobile 02-06-2023 by Janeth Kent
How to set up your Android phone: learn how to get your new phone up and running
If you've just bought a great new Android phone, you'll want to start using it as soon as possible. You'll see that it's not hard to get the initial set-up and configuration to get it ready to use, and we'll guide you every step of the way. From connecting your Google account,…
Category : Mobile 28-04-2021 by Janeth Kent
Making AJAX requests to a REST API using vanilla JavaScript and XHR
Imagine you just build your first static web page and you would like to add some functionality to make it more attractive and generally more usable. Perhaps you would like to entertain your web page visitor with randomly generated cat facts, jokes, or, (preferably not randomly generated) weather forecasts or…
Category : Javascript 25-11-2020 by Iveta Karailievova
Why You Should Hire Node.js Developer for Your Backend Development
When developers are building a new website, they mainly focus on both frontend and backend development. The frontend code helps create the interfaces through which the app interacts with the users while the back-end code interacts with the server to deliver data or content that is displayed to the website…
Category : Javascript 27-10-2020 by Luigi Nori
What's the Difference between Google TV and Android TV?
At the end of September, Google launched the renewal of its classic dongle. The new Google Chromecast didn't arrive alone, but added two very important innovations compared to the devices of previous generations that have been turning normal televisions into smart TVs since 2013. The first of these novelties is the…
Category : Software 27-10-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
How to run Android apps in Windows 10
Forget about having to constantly pick up your phone to see notifications or answer messages, Your Phone in Windows 10 is what you need and here we tell you how to use it. Apple users can't stop remarking how well their iPhone, iPad and Mac work together. And for a long…
Category : Technology 15-09-2020 by Silvia Mazzetta
How to setup an Android TV with androidtv.com/setup or the Google application
Android TVs and players are a good investment if you want to have all the entertainment at your fingertips. However, they require an installation that, although simple, has several ways to run. We show you how to set up your Android TV without complications and in less than five minutes. Android…
Category : Operating systems 26-10-2020 by Janeth Kent
A collection of interesting networks and technology aiming at re-decentralizing the Internet
The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms. So how does it work? Take a look at this collection of projects aimed to build a decentralized internet. Cloud BitDust - is decentralized, secure and anonymous on-line storage, where only…
Category : Networking 27-08-2020 by Janeth Kent
How to turn your smartphone into a webcam for your pc
With the propagation of Covid-19 we all had to adapt to a new quarantine situation at home, and since the human being needs to communicate constantly, we used the internet channel to make group calls, be it between friends or business meetings. This has led to a rapid expansion of online…
Category : Multimedia 17-05-2020 by Luigi Nori
How to Install Node.js and NPM on Ubuntu 18.04
Node.js is a JavaScript platform for general programming that allows users to create network applications quickly. By leveraging JavaScript in both frontend and backend, Node.js makes development more uniform and integrated. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. In this…
Category : Development 24-04-2020 by Luigi Nori
JavaScript Development Services and How It Works
JavaScript is a programming language. This scripting language, however, is used to create features on web pages. As a result, it helps to make web pages alive. All that stuff that you see or do on the internet or websites or web applications is because of JavaScript. It is used to…
Category : Javascript 17-04-2020 by Luigi Nori
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and examples of XSS and CSRF
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) enables web clients to make HTTP requests to servers hosted on different origins. CORS is a unique web technology in that it has both a server-side and a client-side component. The server-side component configures which types of cross-origin requests are allowed, while the client-side component controls…
Category : Javascript 30-01-2020 by Luigi Nori
How to Generate Static Sites with JavaScript Static Sites Generators
Static websites and so-called JAMstack have become pretty popular recently. And with 2020 on the horizon, this trend doesn't seem to be stopping. Why? Why is old-school HTML + CSS + JS trio in its redesigned and renamed form gaining so much attention? In this article, we'll explore what the…
Category : Javascript 13-12-2019 by Luigi Nori
How to setup Free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates with ISPConfig 3
Let’s Encrypt is an initiative to provide a better way of enabling encryption on websites. It is open, automated and above all: it offers free SSL certificates. Obtaining SSL certificates was always a bit of a hassle and now thanks to Let’s Encrypt and Certbot, finding a certificate authority, doing regular payment,…
Category : Servers 03-12-2019 by Luigi Nori
Best Open-Source Javascript Date Picker Plugins and Libraries
For date pickers, selecting menus is a common choice as they are simple to set up. But I suppose our customers deserve better after centuries of using MM / DD / YY menus. For many companies, datepickers are vital. They can also be used for any defined purpose to monitor time. It…
Category : Javascript 23-07-2021 by Janeth Kent
Vue.js: a quick start guide for beginners. Part 3
Welcome here again! Last time we didn't listen to our very first user events and and methods to react to these events. Now we are going to explain directives and conditional rendering. if-else Regardless of the framework, one of the most important tools under any programmer's belt is conditional rendering. Depending on…
Category : Javascript 26-06-2023 by Janeth Kent
JavaScript challenge for old developers
Let's take a moment to discuss your relationship with JavaScript before delving into technical aspects. If you're anything like me, you've been working with HTML for a long time, occasionally using JavaScript in a basic manner to add interactivity to web pages. Perhaps you ventured into building complex websites by learning…
Category : Javascript 09-06-2023 by
Async/Await how they really work: an example
Promises give us an easier way to deal sequentially with asynchrony in our code. This is a welcome addition, given that our brains are not designed to deal efficiently with asynchronicity. Async / await functions, help us to write completely synchronous code while performing asynchronous tasks in the background. The functionality…
Category : Javascript 22-02-2019 by Janeth Kent
Stunning React Boilerplates and Starter Kits for 2019
As React progresses and helps us build and compose the UI of our applications, more React applications are created every day. In the past few years, the community has indeed created multiple projects to help you save time and kick-start these apps. But it's not always as simple as it seems to…
Category : Javascript 10-02-2019 by Janeth Kent
Best Node Js Resources, Courses and Tutorials.
NodeJS is a platform that enables developers to write high-performance and networked applications server side. And using good old Javascript as well. Why should you study NodeJS? To begin with, it never hurts to learn something new. But most importantly, it's great to learn NodeJS. With a focus on modern JavaScript and real-world application,…
Category : Javascript 10-05-2020 by Janeth Kent
How to build a basic PWA with HTML and Javascript
Looking at the web for a basic PWA online training exercise, everything I found was just too confused or required libraries/system/stage or another. If we need to learn another innovation, we would preferably not get derailed with redundant subtleties ... We have indeed composed a basic introductory exercise to draw from different…
Category : Javascript 10-04-2020 by Janeth Kent
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Sass
You've probably heard about CSS preprocessors before, whether it's Sass, LESS or Stylus, and they're all great tools to maintain your CSS, especially when you work with large codebases. For "lay" (;-)) people: A CSS preprocessor is a program that allows you to generate CSS from the unique syntax of the…
Category : Css 05-02-2019 by Janeth Kent
Configuring DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS with any DNS Server
The new DNS-over-TLS (DoT) and DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocols are available for enabling end user's privacy and security given the fact that most DNS clients use UDP or TCP protocols which are prone to eavesdropping, vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks and, are frequently abused by ISPs in many countries with Internet…
Category : Networking 27-12-2018 by Janeth Kent
How to install Letsencrypt Certificates with Certbot in Ubuntu
In this article we will explain how to install, manage and configure the SSL Security certificate, Let's Encypt in NGINX server used as proxy. This certificate is free but does not offer any guarantee and has to be renewed every 3 months. We recommend that users with shell access use the…
Category : Servers 09-05-2020 by Janeth Kent
Best Development Posts Of August 2018
For this month, we ranked some Web Development articles to pick the Top 20 stories that can help advance your career. The Five Top Reasons to Use JavaScript by Richard Kenneth Eng I’m a Front-End Cheater by catrina Cool Javascript 9: Named arguments — Functions that get and return Objects by Adrià Fontcuberta Good Programmer vs Average Programmer by javinpaul Advanced Coding Skills, Techniques and…
Category : Programming 22-08-2018 by Janeth Kent
How to Set up a Fully Functional Mail Server on Ubuntu 16.04 with iRedMail
Setting up your own mail server from scratch on Linux is complex and tedious, until you meet iRedMail. This tutorial is going to show you how you can easily and quickly set up a full-fledged mail server on Ubuntu 16.04 with iRedMail under 30 minutes. What is iRedMail? iRedMail is a shell…
Category : Networking 30-03-2023 by Janeth Kent
Send Push Notification to Users Using Firebase Messaging Service in PHP
Today I will show you how to send unlimited free push notifications to your clients using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) in your PHP web application. Push Notifications are clickable messages that come from a website. They are used to show notifications outside the web page context even if the user is not browsing…
Category : Php 14-05-2018 by Janeth Kent
Install macOS High Sierra in VirtualBox on Windows 10
Whether you want to occasionally test a website in Safari, or try out a little bit of software in the Mac environment, having access to the latest version of macOS in a virtual machine is useful. Unfortunately, you’re not really supposed to do this—so getting macOS running in VirtualBox is,…
Category : Operating systems 12-04-2021 by Janeth Kent
Setting Up SFTP on Ubuntu 16.04
I recently had a request to setup SFTP for a customer so they could manage a set of files in their environment through an FTP GUI. Being an avid user of command line tools like SCP I haven’t needed to set up FTP or SFTP in many years. So I…
Category : Operating systems 12-03-2018 by Janeth Kent
ArangoDB, install and configure the popular Database in ubuntu 16.04
Introduction to ArangoDb, open source, NoSQL, multi-model database BigData seems to be getting stronger every day and more and more NoSQL databases are coming out to the market, all trying to position themselves in the lead to be the reference. This week I tried ArangoDB! Another NoSQL database? Today I'm going to…
Category : Databases 14-11-2017 by Janeth Kent
Image Optimizers for various platforms
Image Optimizers for various platforms Linux Trimage (GUI) — similar to ImageOptim and uses many of the same lossless tools under the hood. ImageOptim Web Service (HTTP API) — resize and optimize images in your web applications. Online interface for MozJPEG — a JPEG compressor that produces smaller, higher quality files. The web interface…
Category : Software 15-05-2017 by Janeth Kent
5 best open source version control systems tools for sysadmins
As a system admin, the chances are you collaborate with multiple people across the company, therefore you will probably know the stress of constantly transferring files and version controlling the changes. Version control tools are a great way to enable collaboration, maintain versions, and track changes across the team. Perhaps the…
Category : Software 13-05-2017 by Janeth Kent
The Best Lightweight Linux Distributions For Older PC's
What do you do with your old computers? The one which once had good hardware configuration but now those are considered outdated. Why not revive your old computer with Linux? I am going to list seven beginner friendly lightweight Linux distributions that you can use on your older PC. Best Lightweight…
Category : Operating systems 12-03-2017 by Janeth Kent
How to Configure the Mod_Security Core Ruleset in Ubuntu
ModSecurity is a Web Application Firewall, a program that can be used to inspect information as it passes through your web server, intercepting malicious requests before they are processed by your web application. This tutorial will show you how to install ModSecurity on Apache, and configure it with some sensible rules provided…
Category : Servers 04-03-2017 by Janeth Kent
Setup FTP server with VSFTPD in Ubuntu 16.04
Introduction FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is a network protocol that was once widely used for moving files between a client and server. It has since been replaced by faster, more secure, and more convenient ways of delivering files. Many casual Internet users expect to download directly from their web…
Category : Servers 14-02-2017 by Janeth Kent
How to install and setup Varnish in Ubuntu 16.04
One of the problems with running a site with many users is that the constant requests for dynamic content can really bog down a web server. In order to solve this problem, many big companies turn to a tool called Varnish. It’s an HTTP accelerator that caches both static and…
Category : Networking 02-01-2017 by Janeth Kent
MySql: How to build a performant search engine
In content-heavy websites, it becomes increasingly important to provide capable search possibilities to help your users find exactly what they’re looking for. The most obvious solution is searching your MySQL database directly, but implementing a generic MySQL search is not at all trivial. Here’s how to avoid those pitfalls and…
Category : Databases 10-09-2016 by Janeth Kent
PHP Libraries For Summer 2016
Here are our picks for the 12 most useful and interesting open-source PHP libraries that you should check out this summer! Monolog With Monolog you can create advanced logging systems by sending your PHP logs to files, sockets, databases, inboxes or other web services. The library has over 50 handlers for various…
Category : Php 11-08-2016 by Janeth Kent
PHP7: Install PHP7 with NGINX and MEMCACHE in Ubuntu 14.04
Let's install PHP7 and Nginx on a new Ubuntu 14.04 server, and manually build the (not yet packaged) memcached module for PHP7. Command Rundown Update: It looks like the php-memcached package was built into ppa:ondrej/php-php7.0 for php7, so the manual build steps is probably not necessary any longer! Install it via the…
Category : Servers 05-12-2018 by
What is a DDOS attack and tools used
A DOS attack is an attempt to make a system or server unavailable for legitimate users and, finally, to take the service down. This is achieved by flooding the server’s request queue with fake requests. After this, server will not be able to handle the requests of legitimate users. The denial…
Category : Security 04-05-2021 by Janeth Kent
How to Configure Cloudflare Flexible SSL with WordPress website
This article is part of a serie of articles about Wordpress optimization with Cloudflare and some kinds of servers, if you want to understand well read these articles before: Speed up your site and protect it against DDOS attacks with CloudFlare Million of visitors per day with a super cheap php mysql…
Category : Servers 03-12-2015 by Janeth Kent
How to setup FTP server on ubuntu 14.04 with VSFTPD
FTP is used to transfer files from one host to another over TCP network. This article explains how to setup FTP server on ubuntu 14.04 . There are 3 popular FTP server packages available PureFTPD, VsFTPD and ProFTPD. Here i’ve used VsFTPD which is lightweight and less Vulnerability. Step 1 » Update…
Category : Networking 13-01-2015 by Janeth Kent
Speed up your site and protect it against DDOS attacks with CloudFlare
If you have checked your site or blog, then you may noticed the page speed, YSlow, Timeline etc. An important factor to give fast content delivery to your blog’s reader and page speed, CND (Content Delivery Network) is must. The CDN makes your wordpress blog even faster to load, that…
Category : Networking 23-07-2014 by Luigi Nori
Mozilla introduces Firefox 29
Firefox 29 was released on April 29, 2014. The new version looks significantly more like Chrome than the old Firefox. It features the same three-bar menu on the right and rounded tabs, for example. At the same time, though, it keeps the separate search form — something most other browsers have…
Category : Software 29-04-2014 by Janeth Kent
CSS: Image Hover Effects You Can Copy and Paste
In the past, we’ve wrote about some awesome examples of CSS effects that were easy to copy and paste right into your code. Today, we’re going to follow that up with ten new effects specifically built for use with images. Each example comes with an HTML and CSS snippet. 1. Sneak Peek Before we…
Category : Css 09-04-2014 by Janeth Kent
Free PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript editor (IDE) - Codelobster PHP Edition
For valuable work on creation of sites you need a good comfortable editor necessarily. There are many requiring paid products for this purpose, but we would like to select free of charge very functional and at the same time of simple in the use editor - Codelobster PHP Edition .…
Category : Software 16-01-2014 by Janeth Kent
Install Bit Torrent Sync on Ubuntu
There are some great tools for syncing files over the internet available to us, but one stands out from the rest in regards of technology used and possible use cases. A public beta version was released in June this year and now it’s available for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, Android and…
Category : Networking 15-01-2014 by Janeth Kent
GIT - the simple guide
setup Download git for OSX Download git for Windows Download git for Linux create a new repository create a new directory, open it and perform a git init to create a new git repository. checkout a repository create a working copy of a local repository by running the command git clone /path/to/repository when using a remote server, your command will be git…
Category : Software 13-01-2014 by Janeth Kent
Must Have CSS Tools for Designers
There are a lot of tools and tutorials which can help designers and developers in learning CSS easily and rapidly. In this article we have listed 15 css tools which can help designers to achieve creative and innovative results. The following css tools can help designers to create css menus, animations, 3d shapes, layers,…
Category : Css 30-03-2020 by Janeth Kent
318 USEFUL TWITTER BOOTSTRAP RESOURCES #6
How Tos Tutorials and Instructions on using Bootstrap Articles CUSTOMIZING BOOTSTRAP Tips and recommendations on getting started with LESS and Bootstrap customization. TWITTER BOOTSTRAP TUTORIAL Up and running with Twitter Bootstrap in 20 Minutes ADDING SWIPE SUPPORT TO BOOTSTRAP'S CAROUSEL Justin Lazanowski writes up how he was able to get Bootstrap's carousel working for touch/swipe…
Category : Web design 18-12-2013 by Janeth Kent
86 Must Have WordPress Plugins Of 2013
Today we are going to share Best 85 WordPress Plugins for 2013 which will help WordPress Webmasters all over the world. 1. ALL AROUND WORDPRESS CONTENT SLIDER CAROUSEL All Around wordpress content slider is a multi-purpose all-in-one slider solution for your website. It supports both images and video. It can be an…
Category : Software 09-12-2013 by Janeth Kent
How to create a Twitter proxy for mobile development
Since Twitter switched over to version 1.1 of the Twitter API, the first cause of developers headaches is the move to enforce OAuth for every API request, the second guilt - rate limiting - is responsible for drastic restructuring of existing code. The new rate limitations are pretty strict, most requests are limited…
Category : Programming 06-12-2013 by Janeth Kent
Php: 12 Debugging Tools For Developers
PHP is faster and most used scripting language in practice; contains many features such as detailed documentation, a huge community, myriad of ready-to-use scripts and well-supported frameworks. Its quite easy to get started with PHP than with other scripting languages such as Python, or Ruby because of the features PHP…
Category : Software 05-11-2013 by Janeth Kent
8 SEO fundamentals for marketers and developers
Over the past 18 months or so, Google has made big changes to its algorithms. So what does all this change mean for online marketers who use SEO techniques? SEO experts agree that creating high-quality content, still is the best SEO practice. "What was important to do years ago is still important," notes…
Category : Web marketing 05-11-2013 by Janeth Kent
17 Useful Code Snippets for WordPress Developers
When coding WordPress themes, especially if you do it regularly, its really useful to have a selection of code snippets in your toolbox to just 'copy-n-paste' as and when the functionality needs. Not just your most commonly used code, but also some snippets that can, when required, extend WP even…
Category : Php 09-08-2013 by Janeth Kent
13 jQuery Plugins and Tutorials for e-commerce website
E-Commerce websites are making shopping easy for customers. The number of ecommerce websites are growing with every day. Shopping Cart is the most important aspect of an E-Commerce website. We all know that jQuery plugins helps us to add difficult things to our websites very easily. Below you’ll find 13 jQuery shopping cart plugin and…
Category : Javascript 02-08-2013 by Janeth Kent
12 Free Tutorials for Create Responsive Menu
As RWD (responsive design) rapidly increases in popularity, we felt we would need some new solutions or techniques for managing the navigation/menu on smaller screened devices. Planning and building a web site menu for mobiles will perhaps be the critical aspect of our responsive layout, not just with the coding but…
Category : Css 01-08-2013 by Janeth Kent
A Collection of Essential WordPress Plugins
With so many plugins available, finding the best WordPress plugins can be hard and time-consuming! That is my motivation for gathering this comprehensive collection of Essential WordPress plugins. Enjoy! WP DB Backup WP DB Backup is an easy to use plugin which lets you backup your core WordPress database tables just by…
Category : Web design 21-08-2020 by Janeth Kent
10 Best Free Ecommerce Solutions On The Market
As the digital landscape continues to evolve, ecommerce has become an essential part of businesses worldwide. Entrepreneurs, small businesses, and even established enterprises are seeking robust and costeffective solutions to set up their online stores. In this article, we will explore the ten best free ecommerce solutions available on the…
Category : Software 21-07-2023 by Janeth Kent
Setup and Manage Mysql/MysqlAdmin root password
Managing mysql main root password is one of the most common questions/problems that new linux users have, and one of the essential tasks. By defaultroot user is MySQL admin account. The Linux / UNIXlogin root account for your operating system and MySQL root aredifferent. They are separate and nothing to…
Category : Databases 18-07-2013 by Janeth Kent
12 Must Read Tips and Tricks For Web-Design And Web-Dev Addicts
Today, websites are often sophisticated and complex. Web sites often act as business partners, perform complex tasks that help run and even improve a business or personal enterprise. Most programmers are not just desktop programmers , web programmers or scripting gurus – often have to master many different skills. Over time, most software…
Category : Web design 16-07-2013 by Janeth Kent
How to Easily Install Hadoop in Ubuntu 12.10
This tutorial covers the installation steps of Apache Hadoop 1.0 and 2.0 in Ubuntu Linux. I will also go through the configuration for running it on pseudo-distributed mode. Pre-Requisites Java 6 or later (Hadoop is written in Java) Linux OS (Windows is supported only in development mode. Other flavors of…
Category : Databases 11-07-2013 by Janeth Kent
Setup SSL Certificate on Apache and Ubuntu 12.04
How to Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 12.04 About SSL Certificates A SSL certificate is a way to encrypt a site's information and create a more secure connection. Additionally, the certificate can show the virtual private server's identification information to site visitors. Certificate Authorities can issue SSL certificates that…
Category : Networking 02-07-2013 by Janeth Kent
14 Tools For Checking Your Website's Health
Have you ever checked your website's health? We have listed some useful sources that show if your website is operating as it should, and if there's anything that it can be done to improve it's performance from the structural and marketing aspect. Enjoy and feel free to recommend any other sources…
Category : Web design 28-06-2013 by Janeth Kent
Install apache2 mod_security and mod_evasive on Ubuntu 12.04
This guide is intended as a relatively easy step by step guide to: Install and configure Apache2 ModSecurity and mod_evasive modules on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server. Things have become much easier than before installing both these two excellent security modules for Apache2 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, as both modules are available in the…
Category : Networking 11-06-2013 by Janeth Kent
Install Wordpress, Nginx, PHP, and Varnish on Ubuntu 12.04
About Varnish Varnish is an HTTP accelerator and a useful tool for speeding up a server, especially during a times when there is high traffic to a site. It works by redirecting visitors to static pages whenever possible and only drawing on theserver itself if there is a need for an…
Category : Networking 29-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
25 Metro Style Scripts and Tutorials for Web Developers
The Metro Design style is slowly gaining popularity since most web developers today prefer to use it for their various websites with the use of JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. Here we have listed some Metro Style Scripts and Tutorials for web developers ad designers. All to make it easier for you to…
Category : Web design 28-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
Weekly Design and Development News #2
Red Pen It lets you upload your design, share a short URL and get feedback super-fast. There’s no logging in, no project management, no bullshit. CSS Modal The CSS Modal is built out of pure CSS. The modal is designed using responsive web design methods so it works on all screen sizes from…
Category : Web design 26-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
Google Wallet: your fast and secure digital wallet
Google Wallet is a convenient payment system offered by the company for Android users, previously known as Android Pay. What is Google Wallet, how does it work, and which banks support it? In 2018, Google revamped and rebranded its mobile and online payment services under the brand of Google Pay or G…
Category : Software 15-06-2023 by Janeth Kent
A collection of must-have front-end developer tools
PREPROCESSORS For years, the front-end community debated over whether CSS preprocessing was necessary. The language is a simple one; why are we complicating it? Thankfully, over time, and as the web stack matured, the majority of front-end developers came to terms with the fact that, until the language itself matures a…
Category : Programming 20-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
Tips for Writing Content that Ranks in 2013
There are many schools of thought as to how best to optimize a website for top keyword placements in search engine results. The concept of search engine optimization is basically a science, but like most sciences, there is no definitive "right" answer, just a series of practices that tend to work in…
Category : Web marketing 12-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
New in Google Analytics: Real-Time Conversion Report
It's been nearly two years since Google Analytics added real-time reports. Over that time, there have been a handful of changes including profiles, real-time widgets and understanding segments. Now Google Analytics has announced a new addition to its real-time reports: goal conversions. As you can see, the real-time Conversions report shows a list of the…
Category : Web marketing 07-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
Memcache: Installation and Usage on Ubuntu 12.10
About Memcache Memcache is a system that works to speed up virtual private servers by caching server information. The program allows you to allocate a specific amount of the server ram toward caching recently queried data for a certain amount of time. Once the data is requested again, memcache speeds up…
Category : Databases 03-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
MySql: Setup Master Slave Replication in Ubuntu
About MySQL replication MySQL replication is a process that allows you to easily maintain multiple copies of a MySQL data by having them copied automatically from a master to a slave database. This can helpful for many reasons including facilating a backup for the data,a way to analyze it without using…
Category : Databases 02-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
Php: Automatic Site/Directory Backup via FTP with PHP
In this tutorial we are going to make a PHP script that archives your website into a .tar file, then automatically moves it to an external FTP server for safe keeping. We can then setup a cron for this script which will execute it automatically every day/week/month , however…
Category : Programming 29-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
Top Google Website Optimization Resources
Search engine optimization (SEO) professionals, web designers, and bloggers read a lot of tips from various experts to stay fresh and up on the current trends in website optimization. But what does Google have to offer on the subject? Find out in this collection of tips, guides, resources, and tutorials…
Category : Web marketing 26-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
Redis: installation and usage on Ubuntu/Debian
About Redis Redis, developed in 2009, is a flexible, open-source, key value data store. Following in the footsteps of other NoSQL databases, such as Cassandra, CouchDB, and MongoDB, Redis allows the user to store vast amounts of data without the limits of a relational database. Additionally, it has also been compared…
Category : Databases 01-07-2013 by Janeth Kent
5 tools for better PHP
When we work on our applications, whatever our language of choice, sometimes we can focus too much on the code itself. A really good development lifecycle is about so much more than the code, it brings in a selection of supporting tools to ensure quality and reliability of the application,…
Category : Programming 11-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
Apache:Setup a SSL Certificate with Thawte
Here is a short tutorial how to set up a Thawte SSL 123 SSL certificate (a domain-only validation SSL Certificate). In a nutshell, it takes two steps: First, you need to create your private key and the certificate signing request to request the certificate. In a second step you need…
Category : Networking 11-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
PHP:EZSql class, manage your database connection easily
EZSql is a php class to make it very easy to deal with database connections, there’s already an ezsql documentation: Extensive ezsql documentation Requirements Wampserver ezsql library Installation First you need to download wampserver and ezsql library. I’ve already included the links in the requirements section. Next, setup your test folder. Then create your database configuration file…
Category : Php 11-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
Install and Setup SSL in Webmin and Apache
SSL is a protocol for making secure, authenticated connections across an insecure network like the Internet. It encrypts network traffic, so that an attacker cannot listen in on the network and capture sensitive information such as passwords and credit card numbers. It allows servers to authenticate themselves to clients, so…
Category : Networking 11-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
Distributed Storage Across Multiple Servers (Nodes) With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10
This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 11.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling…
Category : Operating systems 11-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
Setup VNC server for remote desktop management in Ubuntu 12.04
VNC is a protocol that is used to share the desktop with other users/computers over the network/Internet.In order to share a desktop, VNC server must be install and configure on the computer and VNC client must be run on the computer that will access the shared desktop. When we install…
Category : Networking 24-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
How to install and configure vsftpd FTP server in Ubuntu 12.10
This tutorial focuses on how to setup vsftpd server on your linux based VPS or a dedicated server. The vsftpd stands for “Very Secure FTP Daemon”. It is not just secure as the name suggests but also delivers excellent performance by consuming less memory. The tutorial also teaches you how…
Category : Networking 11-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
A list of Great PHP libraries and classes you should know
It is an exciting time to be a PHP developer. There are lots of useful libraries released every day, and with the help of Composer and Github, they are easy to discover and use. Here are 24 of the coolest that I’ve come across. Your favorite is not on the list? Share it in…
Category : Programming 26-03-2021 by Janeth Kent
Install ISPCONFIG 3 in UBUNTU 12.04
Note: This is work in progress! You should probably test this in a virtual machine first and play around with various settings. There are a lot of tutorials over the Internet about how to configure an Ubuntu server for ISPConfig. I usually follow them, after all there aren’t so many variations on…
Category : Networking 11-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
