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cPanel Releases EasyApache 3.12

EasyApache 3.12 improves CloudLinux’s modhostinglimits, modmono compatibility on CentOS 4, and mod_ruid2 to suPHP support We are excited to announce the release of EasyApache 3.12. The latest version provides numerous updates. CloudLinux’s mod_hostinglimits has been updated to 0.9-5. This will … Continue reading

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Goodbye Menus?

On the 26th April, the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of Ubuntu was released. There are many tweaks and improvements included in version 12.04 (again, sporting one of Ubuntu’s traditionally silly code names, this time it’s ‘Precise Pangolin’), but … Continue reading

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Creating WordPress Plugins

WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the internet, it was first released on May 27th 2003 and has had well over 65 million downloads to date, and for that reason alone, getting involved in WordPress development … Continue reading

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A Useful VIM Tip

As system administrators, we often have to login to servers and modify files – whether they’re configuration files or php scripts. Occasionally these are files which may have previously been edited and uploaded by somebody using Windows, in which case … Continue reading

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Datatables – Add Id to Table Row of a Newly Created Row

I’m a big fan of the jquery datatables grid plugin,  I think it’s one of the best grids around (www.datatables.net).  However, I struggled to overcome quite a basic task – so I hope the example below might help somebody. var … Continue reading

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Varnish – a caching guide

Varnish can be found at www.varnish-cache.org “Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art web application accelerator. You install it on your web server and it makes your website fly.“ – Quote from www.varnish-cache.org. It’s as simple as … Continue reading

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Why Zend Date Is So Nice!

I work with the Zend Framework on a daily basis and use the Zend_Date component all the time. I love the wide variety of date and time constants it supports. With two lines of code you can return something as … Continue reading

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HTML 5 Local Storage

Over the years there have been many different web technologies developed to allow developers to store data to enhance the experience of the website user. The fairly recent rise of HTML5 has seen a new procedure to allow local data … Continue reading

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The basics of version control using GIT Part 2

Following on from last weeks first part we continue our look at using GIT Configuration of GIT Before going to far into the command usage of GIT, it is a good idea to first configure your preferences. The two main … Continue reading

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The basics of version control using GIT Part 1

What is version control? Any developer that has worked on more than a handful of projects will be able explain why version control is so important in todays development environment, and while version control is not technically needed for some … Continue reading

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