3 Affordable Stock Photography and Vector Art Websites
As a web developer and blogger I’m always looking for affordable photos and illustrations to use in CodeHill and the other websites I work on. I’ve been using these three stock photography websites for a while now, they provide good quality images for reasonable prices.
Streaming Music and Videos with GNUMP3d
I have been trying different streaming servers the past few days for a project I’m working on. Out of the ones I tested so far none was as easy to install and configure as the GNU Streaming MP3 / Media Server (GNUMP3d). So I thought I should write post about it for those who are [...]
Ubuntu Facts
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution that has one of the largest online communities. It is based on Debian the community-based distribution and is a trademark of Canonical Ltd which is also its largest sponsor.
Detect if you are Running a Virtual Machine
Would you like to know if your server’s OS is running on bare-metal or on a virtual machine. imvirt and virt-what are 2 Linux scripts that allow you to do so easily.
Banning IPs using .htaccess
One of the many features the file .htaccess provides for a website is the ability to ban IP addresses or ranges of IP addresses from accessing it. This could be useful when a spambot, scrapper or leecher is consuming your bandwidth.
An Online GUID Generator Tool
Another addition to our Tools page is the GUID Generator. GUID which stands for Globally Unique Identifier, are 32 character Hexadecimal character string usually stored as a 128 bit integer, an example of a GUID is {F2E0A7B9-F29D-869B-4CC1-F2550D628100}. They are also known as UUIDs or Universally Unique Identifiers. To read more about GUID visit Wikipedia’s GUID [...]
Displaying the Number of Visits in a WordPress Blog Post
I thought it would be a good idea to show how many visits a blog post had since it was published. One of the web tracking tools I use is WordPress.com Stats, and it’s the easiest to get the page view count from. So after some googling I found the best way to do so [...]
Check your Website with Host Services
Host Services is my latest addition to the Tools page. It’s basically a port scanner that checks the services on a server to make sure they are running. What makes it different from other port scanners is it only checks the services that are expected to be running on a server, like HTTP and FTP. [...]
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