Starting A User Group

May 29, 2005

This article is still ongoing. I decided to publish it because I figured it still might help some individuals even in this primitive state. First things first. What exactly is a user group? A user group is a group of people that get together by interest in a particular technology. It may be a programming [...]

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What are Live Bookmarks?

May 29, 2005

News aggregation built into your browser! If you’re using the latest version of Firefox (at the time of writing PR1), you might have noticed a small graphic labelled RSS in the bottom right hand corner of your browser. A Live Bookmark A Live Bookmark You probably already know that RSS stands for “Rich Site Summary” [...]

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Google Hacks – 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tricks

May 29, 2005

Update – This title is now in it’s second edition. Google Hacks Author: Tara Calishain , Rael Dornfest Publisher: O’Reilly Online Catalog: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ ISBN: 0-596-00447-8 Price: $AUS39.00 approx. Ok. I admit, I’m somewhat of a Google groupie. Having a keen interest in Search Engine trends and technologies, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on [...]

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What is phpinfo?

May 29, 2005

phpinfo is one of the most handy functions a PHP programmer needs to know about, especially when it comes time to debugging! As the name says, phpinfo displays information about PHP.

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Testing if Perl is Working

May 29, 2005

Checking if Perl is working for the shell-deprived. Perl is a very popular language and a common question I here from those that are new to open source web development in general is “Why isn’t my Perl script working?” or “How do I know if I have Perl installed/working?”. There are lots of ways you [...]

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Security Warrior

May 29, 2005

Security Warrior Author: By Cyrus Peikari, Anton Chuvakin Publisher: O’Reilly Online Catalog: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ ISBN: 0-596-00545-8 Price: $AUS90.00 approx. Having read most of the security books in the O’Reilly series, I was anxious to see what “Security Warrior” was all about. First things first, if you’re new to the topic of information security, perhaps try a [...]

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Creating Your Own Custom 404 Error Pages

May 29, 2005

We’ve all seen the dreaded 404 error page as shown below.

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Preventing Orphaned SSH Sessions

May 29, 2005

If you run servers offering SSH connections (you are using SSH right? If not, stop reading this immediately and go and learn about it), you may have noticed annoying sessions showing as active when you know that they aren’t. Some people call them orphaned, disconnected or leftover sessions. Since some Unix installations by default, either [...]

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Specifying a default Favicon in Apache

May 28, 2005

If you didn’t already know, I love Apache. Defining a favicon is a nice detail to add to your site, you already know that. But did you know you can specify a default favicon on your Apache web server that can span across virtual hosts? Of course this would be overridden if a site chooses [...]

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Book Review How-To

May 28, 2005

This guide was originally written for the Melbourne PHP User Group and the O’Reilly web site. It has been reproduced here in case someone finds it useful. This document serves as a guide for book reviewers, however some of the same principals apply for reviewing software, hardware, services, events and web sites. Good reviews are [...]

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