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Notepad++ Keyboard Shortcuts

Notepad++ has become my favorite editor when coding PHP or XML. It just has so many useful little features. You can have all of the documents you need opened in one window and separated with tabs. You can have a 2nd workspace hidden within the same window, which is great when you are updating some [...]

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Importance of Color for business and web sites.

Importance of Color in Business

Posted by Megan Dorn under Random thoughts, Small Business

Colors do more than make your business or product look pretty. They actually have a real impact on consumers’ perceptions of your business, which can in turn have an impact on your sales and revenue. I read in a post [...]

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Finding Open Source Images and graphics

Sometimes when you are starting a business you need to have some graphics for a business card or for your web pages.  Most startups are low on cash and tend to have to create the images for themselves.  There are places on the net where you can get royalty free pictures and images that you [...]

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Get Your Name on Every Social Network

One of the biggest advantages of social media is the ability to get your brand Web-wide recognition among very active consumers across any number of niches, large and small. One of the biggest disadvantages is the massive amount of time it takes to get these profiles set up and keep them maintained. You can also [...]

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Exporting Tomcat SSL keys to Apache httpd

Apache Tomcat SSL keys created with keytool are, by default, in der format. These keys cannot be used in Apache httpd since httpd, be default, expects the keys in pem(X509) format. Using the below steps you can export the tomcat’s keys to Apache httpd format and use it for Apache.

I assume that you already [...]

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Windows Scheduled Task Log Output

I needed to have a script list and kill processes and I needed that script to run out of a scheduled task.

It would be nice to know what happened with the script when it runs early in the morning.

I found  that if you call the script from the Windows Task Scheduler that you [...]

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Web Sites with Free Games

There are so many web sites now days offering free online arcade type games.

http://www.flashgames247.com/

http://www.playfuls.com

http://www.kongragate.com (My personal favorite)

http://www.miniclip.com/

http://play-free-online-games.com

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Force Tomcat to HTTPS

Need to have http redirect to https within Tomcat. Here is a good page on setting up SSL for Tomcat tomcat-6.0-doc/ssl-howto.html

1. Change Tomcat’s server.xml. (<application>/tomcat/conf/server.xml) Edit the non-SSL <Connector> entry listening on port 80 and add or edit the redirectPort atribute to point to the port on which the SSL <Connector> is listening. By [...]

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How-to Add in Apache modules, ie mod_rewrite

I seem to need this information often enough so I thought I would post it here for safe keeping.

In Apache 2, shared modules must be compiled with the directive: –enable-mods-shared=’rewrite’

Multiple modules can be configured that way like so: –enable-mods-shared=’rewrite dav dav-fs’

A simple config string would look like this: ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/apache –enable-mods-shared=’rewrite’

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Sync Web Servers Script

Here is a script I wrote to keep 2 or more web sites in sync.  The data files can be anything under the data tree. The database is MySQL.

The script works by pulling the latest data and database backup from the production server.  The script can be placed in a cron. The DR server [...]

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