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Dedicated Servers – What You Might Not Know

Matt — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:05:06 +0000

Five years ago I happily procured a dedicated Red Hat server from a very popular managed hosting company (if not “the” company). I did this mostly out of convenience for my clients, who would always call me with hosting issue … Continue reading →

The Evil of All Image Newsletters

Matt — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:03:39 +0000

I sometimes have designers give me a newsletter that’s about impossible to render well as html, other than slicing the entire thing up as images and putting it in a table. This often happens with print designers trying to do … Continue reading →

Finally, A Great HTML Parser for PHP

Matt — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:49:17 +0000

I’m blown away by the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser. It’s like Beautiful Soup, the Python HTML/XML parser, but for PHP and has some nice jQuery-like syntax. It also seems just incredibly fast, but maybe that’s also because I’m better at … Continue reading →

Linux: Get Current Directory Size in MB

Matt — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:12:04 +0000

I forget this every time, so am posting for myself as well as others :) On the command line, simply change into the directory you want the size of, and the following command will return the size of the directory … Continue reading →

Drupal 6: Redirecting the User Destination After Registration

Matt — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:38:36 +0000

Scenario: An unregistered user visits a page that only logged in users can visit. Say it’s this page: http://www.your-site.com/protected/page Drupal throws up the login form, but the URL above remains the same – good as we’re going to use that. … Continue reading →

Tweaking Drupal Date-Popup Format in an Exposed View

Matt — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:17:25 +0000

* Note this entry only pertains to the Date-Popup boxes when used in a Views filter, not a regular node-based form. Today I needed to change the format of the date-popup box on an exposed views filter. It normally defaults … Continue reading →

Trouble Installing PECL’s uploadprogress On OS X – MAMP?

Matt — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:04:46 +0000

Note – this assumes you are running MAMP on a Mac. For this I’m using Leopard 10.5.8. All you want to do is get this installed so you can have fancy upload bars in your Drupal 7 installation. So you … Continue reading →

Put Your 404 Page to Work with URL Splitting

Matt — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:22:47 +0000

If you launch a new version of a site and the URL structure changes – you can certainly handle most of that with an htaccess file and a 301 Redirect command. But sometimes, as I’ve found at least, this isn’t … Continue reading →

How to Fix Minify Error: !FAIL: environment : PHP/server does not auto-HTTP-encode content

Matt — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:20:36 +0000

So you’ve setup PHP Minify and think you’re a good citizen for making your site zippier. You run the tests in min_unit_tests and all pass, except for the last one: !FAIL: environment : PHP/server does not auto-HTTP-encode content (1 of … Continue reading →

Fix: Drupal Site Redirects to p3p0.com

Matt — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:52:23 +0000

I recently helped a client fix a particularly sneaky site hack. While this pertains to Drupal – similar attacks have been reported in Joomla, or any other PHP based site. The fix here may help still – you’ll just need … Continue reading →