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What is xmlrpc.php?

February 22, 2011

It is a script which allows clients to make procedural calls over the net.


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Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications in a VM

February 11, 2011

Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications I am running a Windows XP SP3 VM used for testing multiple versions of InternetExplorer through Virtualbox.


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Force HTTP using htaccess

December 4, 2010

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]


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Stop That Referrer in PHP!

November 1, 2010

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, after all, isn’t inbound traffic to your site fantastic no matter what?


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Viva la 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!

October 26, 2010

You may see this around and not have a clue what the heck it is, weirdly enough, I did.


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Ternary Operation

October 12, 2010

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!


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Oops the system encountered a problem (#104)

October 11, 2010

If you get the following error while using Google’s Gmail Service (gmail.


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How to Write Unmaintainable Code

September 22, 2010

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 link to it on the web for whoever ends up clicking on it!


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Captcha Fail!

September 16, 2010

Hey, thought I’d just post this one incase anybody else sees it and thinks it’s funny.


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Test IE versions on any machine!

September 16, 2010

Do you do web development and are unable to test your software in old shitty versions of Internet Explorer?


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Error 500 php_value .htaccess

September 14, 2010

I noticed on some server setups I could not do the following inside a .


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Windows Directory Tree Never Finishes Loading?

September 14, 2010

I am running Windows 7 64-bit and since yesterday whenever I open “My Computer”/“Windows Explorer” (-Windows+E) the initial “showing drives” screen is frozen, so I have to use the address bar to navigate to the path I need to go.


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CSS background image data: base64?

September 9, 2010

What the heck is all that Gobbledygook in the CSS?


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WordPress remove Subscribe to my RSS feed after posts

September 8, 2010

If you are running WordPress and have noticed a line under all your posts that says:


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And then there was Google Instant!

September 8, 2010

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 noticed a new search feature Google is pushing called Google Instant.


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[Solved] PHP’s typeof – gettype()

September 6, 2010

Quite often you may need the ability to check what type of data type a variable is.


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When to use SSL?

September 3, 2010

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.


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IE6 PngFix in Javascript

September 2, 2010

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 exists in the deep dark corners of the interwebs – and you will probably have figured out that it doesn’t play well with PNG images.


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MSSQL Select Not Null

September 2, 2010

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 it’s custom syntax.


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What is __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz ?

September 1, 2010

__utma, __utmb, __utmc and __utmz are 4 cookies created by Google Analytics, for a detailed and very informative read, go here and here.


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