Announcements
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 members) now exports up to 100,000 records. Read More ›
Announcements
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. Read More ›
Announcements
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. Read More ›
Linux · MySQL
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 in MySQL command-line client will do the trick: Read More ›
Linux
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 were not extracted successfully. Read More ›
Announcements
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. Read More ›
Productivity Tools
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, Read More ›
WinForms
I have 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. Read More ›
Linux · MySQL
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 program and importing is done using the MySQL command line client mysql. Read More ›
MySQL
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 for passing the username. So change root to the username you have access to. Read More ›