After doing an upgrade on my Debian virtual server, which upgraded PHP and Nginx, I got a "502 Bad Gateway" error when browsing websites on that server. This post shows how to fix this problem, and the configuration option to prevent it occurring again on reboot.
In Google Chrome you can easily purge browsing data including cookies, history, etc using the application preferences. But there are still a bunch of files that it doesn’t touch. I was having some weird issues with my SilverStripe installs (I won’t go into that here) which didn’t happen when using incognito mode but did under normal browsing. Deleting all browsing data made no difference so I needed to really poke under the hood to delete all data.
When a directory is password protected with Apache either with a .htaccess file or in the main Apache configuration, all subdirectories are also password protected. This post shows how to remove password protection from a subdirectory and from an individual file.
Pandora is a music streaming service which can be accessed via a web browser, smartphone/tablet app or desktop app. There is a closed API which can be used to extract some information from Pandora (and edit radio stations etc). This post looks at using a PHP API by Alex Dallaway to access radio stations and bookmarks from Pandora.
PHP has a Reflection API adds the ability to reverse-engineer classes, interfaces, functions, methods and extensions. I needed to use it to get all the publicly accessible properties for a class that aren’t static, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to get this "out of the box".
I frequently export a whole bunch of web pages as PDF documents in Safari on OS X and found it frustrating to have to use the mouse to click click click to do it, and worked out how to create a keyboard shortcut to do it much faster and simply.