Stop logging “internal dummy connection” in Apache

Apache 2.x keeps child processes alive by creating internal connections which appear in the log files as "internal dummy connection" on the IP address ::1 or 127.0.0.1. If you ever monitor Apache log files you’ll see a lot of these in the log files. This post shows how to prevent logging for these two IP addresses so your log files won’t get filled up with these.

Master master replication with MySQL

MySQL databases can be replicated using master-slave replication and also with master-master replication. There are plenty of tutorials online showing how to do master-slave but not many showing master-master replication and the most popular one I found was a little hard to follow. Therefore I’ve written this post to show how to do master-master replication with MySQL.

TinyMCE _mcePaste divs and Webkit browsers

There is a bug in older versions of TinyMCE when using Webkit based browsers (Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari) which added and failed to remove hidden divs with the id _mcePaste. This post looks at the problem and offers two solutions: upgrade TinyMCE completely, or just upgrade the paste plugin.