I use phpMyAdmin as a PHP web based manager for MySQL, but find a few of the default configuration options "out of the box" a little annoying. This post shows some useful modifications to the defaults to make phpMyAdmin more usable, in my opinion.
If you’re a web developer like me who needs to test sending emails from a development version of a website, but your ISP blocks port 25 outbound, then it’s possible to set up a "tunnel" via SSH. You then send mail to port 25 on localhost and it actually sends the mail from the server at the other end.
When migrating a mono application / web service running on one server to a new server I got an error telling me that the "Argument cannot be null" and "Parameter name: path". This post shows the full error message and the additional configuration options that needed to be set to fix it.
I frequently need to change the DNS servers I use on my Mac and it can be quite a convoluted process to switch them around using the GUI settings. This post shows how quickly you can change between DNS server settings from the command line using terminal.
Lynx is a command line web browser which I often use for checking the behaviour of redirection headers and content types in a web page’s http headers. The previous post showed how to get the headers with Lynx and this post how to set the user agent.
When you take screenshots on Mac OS X there’s a shadow around the screenshot by default. This post shows how to disable the shadow from the screenshot and how to subsequently restore the shadow.