I don't know when it happened but running osxfuse 2.8.0 and encfs version 1.8.1 on Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and then trying to launch a VMWare Fusion 7.1.2 VM causes the following errors: "Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory" and "Failed to...
Instead of just using RedirectPermanent in htaccess try: RedirectMatch 301 (?i)/blog/my-really-cool-blog-post /about-us/blog/my-really-cool-blog-post So if your old web server had capitalised URLs e.g. http://www.example.com/blog/My-really-Cool-blog-post it will still...
One Web Site Admin problem that I have found to be annoying is when you want to secure your webserver by making only what is required writeable and leave the rest unwriteable by the web server process. As soon as you go to perform an update of a module then the...
SBS 2011 doesn't allow you to install Powershell v4 which has a one line Get-FileHash utility to generate an md5sum. So you need a few extra lines. I needed to transfer some PSTs which I had chunked down to 250MB 7z files. From SBS 2011 to Mac and wanted to check they...
This script exports the email aliases in $export_names to a file with a yyyymmdd date stamp. The BadItemLimit is jacked really high because when a mailbox is 24+ GB and has a lot of weird Chinese and other character sets that make the export think it's corrupt. I'm...
Any example of inconsistent behaviour in an Android Mobile app. This is from Optus a Telco supplier. You have an amount to pay value and a click to pay button. The next screen should carry over the amount to pay value but instead has a value from a payment made...
If you decide that you want to move your business website between content management systems. You might want to ensure that your old links to specific content are still accessible. Some examples being blog posts, images or downloads. Following are two .htaccess hacks...
Sometimes the database you are viewing with the mysql client has so many tables you can't see all of them because the first results are hidden. In the mysql client pager less; Now when you run show tables; it will pipe it to less and you will be able to see the whole...
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Learning PHP using firstly CakePHP 2 and now moving onto CakePHP 3 I'm finding there are some ways PHP has changed to allow you to write less and get the same result. Arrays Before <?php $myarray = array( 'one' => 'One', 'two' => 'Two', 'three' => 'Three'...