Cron Job Log Page Improvements

This recent Cronless update brings the following improvements to the log pages of cron jobs: Both free and premium members can now view all the logs without any restrictions. The export feature (available to premium …

Cronless Bug Fixes & Tweaks

Todays updates include a few bug fixes and UI changes. Bug Fixes: The cron jobs user-agent field (available to Power and Pro members) now works as expected with all major web servers.

Increased Cron Job Error Tolerance Count

The error tolerance of cron jobs in Cronless, the web-based cron job and port monitoring service, is now increased for all membership types. Error tolerance is the number of consecutive failures a cron job returns …

Paging in MySQL Command-Line Client

By default MySQL command-line client wraps lines in a SELECT query result and has no paging. You can solve both these problems by using the less command available in Unix/Linux systems. Entering the following command …

Checking gzip Compressed tar Files

I wrote this very simple bash script to check the gzip compressed tar files generated by cPanel's backup. It attempts to extract each file individually to /dev/null and emails a list of the ones that …

SnipsManager Is Now Free And Open Source

SnipsManager, the PHP script for sharing source code and plain text, is now free and open source. It is now published under the Revised BSD License and is available on GitHub.

60 Web-Based Lorem Ipsum Generators

When I considered writing a blog post listing web-based Lorem Ipsum generators I didn't know I'll find so many. So I listed all I found: RandomText, Cupcake Ipsum, HTML-Ipsum, Fillerama, Catnipsum, Lorem 2, PDX Ipsum, …

How to Get the Title of a Webpage in Windows Forms

I've been working on a Windows Forms application that needs to, among other things, get the title of a webpage. I thought I might share it here in case someone else needs it.

Importing and Exporting MySQL Databases

Importing and exporting MySQL databases in a Unix/Linux environment can be done easily with a single command. You can even choose to export the database's structure or data only. Exporting is done using the mysqldump …

Navigating MySQL Databases and Tables

Here is a list of MySQL's command line client commands to navigate through the databases and their tables. First run the client program by entering the following at the command line: The -u option is …