I was browsing github today when I came across the very interesting Animate.css repository. Animate.css provides a bunch of cool cross browser CSS3 based animations under an MIT licence that you can use in your own projects with minimal effort. First things first you need to get a copy and…
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Command Line Tips: Program Execution
Executing commands is an integral part of using any Linux system. To follow up on my post about navigating file systems from the command line ( Linux Tips: File & Directory Handling ) more effectively, I am I have picked up over the years. Discovering What Shell You Are In…
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My desktop and all of the servers I own are Linux or Unix based. So as a result I tend to find myself in a terminal navigating file systems and working with files more often than not. Command line file management allows you to wield crazy amounts of power but…
Read MoreDeleting all mail for a local server account
It happens, cron jobs can and will go wrong occasionally and when they do, they love to send alerts to the job’s owner hoping for a little attention. An alias can always be added to the /etc/alias file directing all of the mail for an address to to /dev/null but…
Read MoreNginx: Locking Down The WordPress Backend By IP Address
I recently looked at the server logs for a new site that had just launched and noticed alot of hits by random IP addresses being made to the WordPress login script. Similar to the excerpt below: 182.18.209.4 – – [10/Jun/2013:07:33:26 -0400] “POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1” 200 4807 “drinknycity.com/wp-login.php” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT…
Read MoreChanging the web root of a cPanel acccount
As a rule I try to avoid cPanel for hosting sites, I find the overhead of the control panel and the limited flexibility too confining for all but the simplest of sites. Occasionally though I need to deploy sites at work though to cPanel servers due to client requirements. The…
Read MoreS3 Video 0.97 Released
A new version of the S3 Video (0.97) WordPress plugin has been released to the plugin repository. This release is a combination of some new functionality along with a number of bug fixes. Some of the bigger changes in this release are: Support for Amazon S3 prefixes. This feature allows…
Read MoreFilling device storage with HTML5 localstorage
A while back I wrote about using HTML5 local storage engine for storing websites data locally on a client device for caching or off line use. The W3 recommendation on web storage recommends a size limit on the amount of data storage allowed per origin. This has currently been implemented…
Read MoreSpeeding Up Google SDK Manager Downloads
I have been doing some work developing Android applications with Phonegap over the last few weeks. Getting the Eclipse and ADT is always a breeze. Downloading the required Android SDK libraries using SDK manager is always a pain though the speeds seem to be terrible, with the required time to…
Read MoreYou will now access javascript:Recaptcha.reload();
I was looking at a Whitehouse petition earlier today asking that Patent trolls be made to pay all costs associated with their lawsuits if they lose when I can across the gem below. Although I do appreciate the site keeping me in the loop on what its about to access…
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