I wrote an article today on my nature photography blog about backing up photographs, and I think the article applies here as well. Instead of just photographs though, the same concepts could be applied for any important files especially the information about Symantec Ghost. If you’re not regularly backing up your files, this […]
Recently, I redesigned my photography community website, The Lens Flare, and everything has been positive so far except for one thing. The pages viewed per visit has dropped in half.
I suspected that the problem had to do with the navigation. I wanted to test a few things out to see which one would be […]
The first is Google’s “PageRank”, which is a number from 1-10 that is displayed in Google’s browser toolbar. My photography site, The Lens Flare, bounces between a 4-5 on the homepage. PageRank is a measure of links across the web that point to a particular webpage (assuming that the person didn’t add “rel=nofollow” to […]
This is more of a set of modifications rather than an actual module, but the end result is the same.
First thing you’ll need to do is backup your existing site and database. I’d recommend using a test install of Xcart so that nothing in production gets messed up. With that in mind, the first […]
If you want to copy files to another computer, it’s more secure to use scp (secure copy) than ftp.
Using SCP:
scp -pr * username@example.net:destination_path
In the command, -p stands for “preserve”, in other words, it keeps the last modified time, access time, etc the same, and -r recursively copies subdirectories.
Using Rsync:
If you want to just […]
If you’re getting started with Ruby on Rails, one of the better platforms to program in is Eclipse largely due to RadRails and the SVN plugin called Subclipse. Eclipse and the community versions of the plugins are free, so it’s definitely worth taking a look at.
This article is assuming that you have a working […]
Invision Powerboard 1.2 and 1.3 are still used by many people because they’re free, where the newest versions are not. However, the coding for them isn’t 100% compatible with the latest versions of PHP and MySQL. Many web hosting companies are moving to PHP5 and MySQL5, and this will break the default installation […]
Outlook Express is installed for free by default with Windows and thus, it’s a common default choice among people new to the Internet and Email. Outlook Express does the basics of what an email client must do, but that’s the extent of its scope. You can have multiple email accounts, but all of […]
Ruby on Rails is a programming framework for building websites using the Ruby language. Everything is set up to work a certain way; for example, the MVC (Model-View-Controller) model. What this means is that database stuff is put in the model area, the controller contains application logic, and the view contains mostly HTML. […]
SecureCRT is a great SSH and telnet terminal client. It’s not free, but for the price, it’s well worth it.
It handles ssh2 very nicely, and has a username system that’s better than PuTTY, in my opinion.
The only thing that I don’t like about it is that it makes a little beep by default […]