1. Generated a server certificate and server private key
http://www.selfsignedcertificate.com/
2. Download the files, e.g.
9264078_local.dev.mydomain.com.cert
9264078_local.dev.mydomain.com.key
and put them in your Apache conf folder, e.g. C:Apache24conf
Continue reading Adding Self-Signed SSL For Local Web Development with https Auto-Redirect
If you’ve installed Apache on Windows and are used to (re)starting the Apache service from a GUI interface, you’ll have a hard time debugging errors in your httpd configuration files, if there are any, since the GUI response will simply say
“The requested operation has failed!”
Here’s a good word to use to test if your files are UTF-8 -encoded and support international characters.
Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn
For more information about UTF-8 character encoding, visit
If you’re on a Mac and want to connect to another computer over SSH via your Terminal, you can create a shortcut so that instead of typing
> ssh server1.ops.somedomain.com
you can just enter
> ssh server1
Continue reading Mac: Creating Shortcut Host Names When Connecting Over SSH in Terminal
If you update your hosts file to point a domain to another location, accessing that domain will take you to your new destination. For example, in Windows, your hosts file is at
C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts
If you add the following:
127.0.0.1 www.google.com
and then open your browser and go to www.google.com, you will not see Google’s home page but rather your local host index page. This can be handy when you want to disable one javascript include in a page that you don’t have access to. By pointing the external javascript domain to your local host, a 404 not found will be triggered which will prevent the code from running. Everything else, including other references to external javascript files, in the page will still continue to execute.
It’s about time somebody did this!
and a new started “Balanced Payments” is offering next-day deposits.
https://www.balancedpayments.com
That’s good!
UPDATE: Now there’s a service that’s lets non-programmers use Stripe.
When you’re creating a form and have checkboxes and/or multi-value selects that take multiple values, in PHP you specify the field name with brackets as in
<input name=”category[]” >
In order to select this element in jQuery, you need to escape the brackets with double slashes as in
$(“[category$='[]’]”)
I just discovered T-slot aluminum profiles and think they’re some of the most useful things to exist. They’re like Legos for adults. Basically, you can easily build frames for structures using these things. Since there was so much information to absorb, I created a cheat sheet to quickly see what parts are available.
Essential, easy reading for any web developer.
