28
Nov
2014

Favicon Generator

web design

Note to Self: The service at http://realfavicongenerator.net is great for generating favicon's and icons for other mobile platforms.    

27
Nov
2014

Deploying a Web Project from Gitlab

php

gitlab deploy hooks I wanted to automatically deploy a web project when any updates are pushed to the gitlab repository. To do so I added a 'Web Hook'. The Web Hook calls a URL in response to 'push' events. I created a PHP page to be called by the Web Hook: So in... » More
24
Nov
2014

Huge Pages in CentOS 6

red hat centos

centos logo To check the size and amount of Huge Pages use: grep -i Hugepage /proc/meminfo This should so something like: HugePages_Total:    0 HugePages_Free:     0 HugePages_Rsvd:        0 HugePages_Surp:       ... » More

24
Nov
2014

Filezilla is Dead – Killed by Malware

foss, rants

With a heavy heart I can no longer recommend FileZilla.For years I had pointed users to Filezilla for several reasons including availability on multiple platforms and support for FTPS. I have now been informed that Windows users who download FileZilla... » More
12
Nov
2014

PHP Built-In Web Server

php

LAMP Development just got a little easier with PHP version 5.4 and the in-built PHP web server. To test a PHP application we can now navigate to the directory on the filesytem: cd ~/websites/whatever.com/httpdocs Then run the PHP Web Server: php... » More

12
Nov
2014

Install Logtail on CentOS

red hat centos

I had a munin plugin script that uses the logtail program. Logtail comes with the 'logcheck' package - available in the EPEL repository. To install it make sure you have the EPEL repository installed. If not (for CentOS 6): rpm -ivh... » More