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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 [...]

Free Online Mind Mapping software

There are many solutions on the net for mind mapping software.

I have tried a few and the one that seems the simplest to use and has collaborative abilities and excellent exporting formats is  Mind42.com.  Manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world – collaborative, browser-based and for free.

Using a [...]

Free Online Project Management software

Easy Projects.NET feels like a complete desktop application. Each project includes time and billing, message boards for cross-team collaboration, file attachments, reporting tools, and an elegant, interactive Gantt chart that compares favorably with desktop apps like Microsoft Project.

Check the BNET Article.

Go straight to the Easy Projects Web Page.

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 [...]

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 have [...]

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 default, the redirectPort was pointing
to port [...]

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’

# EVEN if you screwed up and failed [...]

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 user should be [...]

Overcoming the dreaded SCP/SFTP message errors

If you have ever used scp or sftp you may have encountered the dreaded ( ”Received message too long” or “Bad packet length” ”) errors.

This is typically due to something being echo’d or sent back to your login attempt.

Usually, it’s something you have in your .profile or .bashrc login files.

Just add the following to the [...]

Google Search Tricks

Looking for a song, artist, movie or software that you want to check out before purchasing?

Use the following Google search, all on one line.

“Your Key Words” inanchor:”rapidshare|megaupload” -torrent -inurl:”rapid|rapidshare|megaupload”

Key:
“Your Key Words” = What you are searching for inside quotes, ie “No Doubt”.
“rapidshare|megaupload” = 2 heavily used downloading sites, replace as needed.
-torrent = remove any [...]

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