Adventures As Me

Scripting languages often provide a central location to obtain modules  
for use in user applications. For example, Perl has CPAN and PHP has  
PEAR. cPanel 11 provides an easy to use interface for managing modules  
for Perl, PHP and Ruby, both from WHM and cPanel. In this first of a  
two part series, we cover [...]

One of the problems inherent to using an Apache Module in a shared web hosting environment is the fact Apache modules gain all the permissions of Apache. Hence, using something like PHP as an Apache module can create serious security vulnerabilities. Since the PHP scripts run in the Apache context, users can easily cause problems [...]

Today I’ve worked on getting an old iMac fucntional. My wife purchased it rather cheap ($25 at a garage sale). Perfect for those projects that need to be cross-platform since previously I had no Mac. There is only one problem: the MacOS install is totally borked!
Here’s the situation I found myself in. I need to [...]

I did it. As noted below I needed a way to mass delete comments in bBlog. After searching the bBlog forums, I could not find anything, thus I decided to see how difficult it would be.
The answer is: not very. A little editing and now I can mass delete or mass approve comments. Sharing is [...]

Being the Company’s only resident web developer I am tasked with maintaining, upgrading and adding features to our Intranet. An Intranet developed over a number of years by various people, all lacking various degress of knowledge, entirely developed in Front Page.
Recently Corporate upgraded the Intranet server to Windows Server 2003. One of the default features, [...]