Linux, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, Javascript and PHP

Lynx is a command line web browser which I often use for checking the behaviour of redirection headers and

When you take screenshots on Mac OS X there’s a shadow around the screenshot by default. This post shows

Lynx is a command line web browser which I often use for checking the behaviour of redirection headers and

I’m currently managing an images server for a customer that uses Nginx on an old Debian 5 install. At some

It’s really annoying when instead of linking directly to your site in a full browser window another site links

If you’ve used a mobile device (e.g. iPhone, iPad, Android phone or tablet) to fill out web forms

When trying to add some files to an images directory under git source control, my new files wouldn't

I've done a bit of work in the past extracting attachments from email with PHP and posted a

A month ago I posted a PHP email message class for extracting attachments and have

Gmail by default shows ads above the list of emails. It’s easy to switch these off but they’re not

I mistyped the name of an internal MySQL function in some code this morning and got back the error

I have a number of batch processes that run using PHP as the command interpreter, and discovered after making

I’ve posted in the past about using the "purge" command line utility on Mac

I have the exim mail server running on one of my customer’s webservers. Their internal mail server hadn’t been

The PHP IMAP functions imap_fetchstructure and imap_fetchbody are used to work out the structure of an email

There may be times when a static variable is needed in a PHP function; static variables maintain their value

I recently needed to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server which I couldn’t reach directly, but which is visible

This post shows how to do set up a port tunnel using the PuTTY SSH client on Windows. I