Monthly Archives: December 2010

Forward HTTP to HTTPS

Having invested in this secure certificate (not a lot of money, but some, and also some time to get everything configured right), I figure we ought to make sure people are using them. Especially on our Webmail login page where … Continue reading

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Blocking brute force pop3 attempts with fail2ban

Brute force SSH attempts have dropped to zero since changing the port from the default to a non-standard one. Even though Denyhosts was working just fine for SSH, now it’s not even needed. However, the brute force pop3 attempts were … Continue reading

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Javascript Email Validation

Needed to update my validation scripts and found this excellent article on the subject. The key part I needed was this: var reEmail = /^([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.])+\@([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.])+\.([A-Za-z]{2,4})$/; which basically says, the first & second parts must have only letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens, … Continue reading

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Cool Free Web Tools

Found this “ShiftCreate” stuff today while checking out IDEs. The mailing thing looks quite interesting… although “ShiftMail” sounds like “ShiftYMail” but hopefully it doesn’t live up to that name! Maybe I will try it out…

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Weird characters in WordPress

We’ve all seen them from time to time, those funny guys that show up when utf8 goes all utf-8 or vice versa. “I’, Â, etc… Anyway thanks to this very concise tip, the problem is easily solved… for now This … Continue reading

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Example Accordion Divs

Accordion Divs: http://sandbox.scriptiny.com/javascript-accordion/index.html http://www.cssnewbie.com/example/css-only-accordion/vertical.html

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WordPress Troubleshooting

Ran into a couple issues on a development box and wanted to save some notes for next time! If the FTP upgrade / install leads to a blank white page with no error, check your PHP configuration and make sure … Continue reading

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