Discovery Enchilada Recipe
I need these all the time as I seem to have a problem remembering the amount of water to use……
How to use Nano on Unix-like systems
Nano is a basic text only text editor in Unix. It has no real GUI as such, and there is…
Accessing /var/www/ as normal user
Some useful linux commands to help with editing web pages on a server: To give access to others to my…
Stupid Microsoft error messages
Why is it that the Microsoft developers have an inability to get their systems and processes to output a meaningful…
How to use mysqldump
Using mysqldump to back up a database If you want to make a super quick backup of a MySQL database,…
Zend_Db – Performing a LIKE search
When performing a simple SQL search using Zend_Db_Select, $select->where('name = ?', 'chris'); But what if you want to do a…
Linux – CHMOD 777
Just a note, when you update the permissions of a file: chmod +777 somefile.txt This change will only last as…
Linux – Viewing Processes and Process Threads
If you need to know about viewing processes on Linux, then there is an excellent page here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/show-all-running-processes-in-linux/ I shan’t…
Using custom sounds for iPhone SMS notification
I quickly go bored of the default iPhone SMS sounds. But its relatively easy to switch them to your own.…
Setting up postfix on Ubuntu for mailing from PHP
To allow your Ubuntu server to send emails from PHP, then you need to install postfix. Postfix is a mailer…