It’s been just over a year now that the no-cost developer subscriptions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux have been readily available. These self-supported subscriptions are for development only and can easily be converted…
IPv4 Address Validator
IPv4 Address Validator
A common programming exercise is to write some code that will validate an IP address. IPv4 addresses are displayed canonically using dot-decimal notation and they consist of four decimal numbers or octets that range from zero to 255 separated by periods…
Kap Screen Recorder
Kap Screen Recorder
Kap, an open-source screen recorder for macOS is definitely worth checking out. Once installed, with just two-clicks from your menubar, you’ll be recording beautiful screencasts…
PHP 5.6 End of Life (EOL)
PHP 5.6 End of Life (EOL)
PHP version 5 (5.6.38) officially reached end-of-life on December 31st, 2018. This affects countless websites that are powered by popular PHP/MySQL based content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine, CraftCMS and many others…
Shell Scripting Setup
Shell Scripting Setup
You can do everything with shell scripts! Anything you can do from your terminal, you can do with a shell script, and if you like you can enable a cronjob to schedule the execution of your shell scripts…
Email-To-SMS Gateways
Email-To-SMS Gateways
Many people aren’t aware that you can easily send a text message to your friends, family and business associates using your email address. This functionality is termed an Email-To-SMS Gateway and must be supported by your wireless provider…
GitKraken Glo Boards
GitKraken Glo Boards
Axosoft, the team behind the amazing GitKraken Git client, has recently released a task manager/issue tracker for developers and professionals and it’s AWESOME! I recently switched from Wunderlist to Glo Boards and have literally seen an increase in my productivity…
Robots Text File Explained
Robots Text File Explained
The robots.txt file is a standard that allows webmasters to convey to search engines whether or not their website (or specific pages or directories of it) should allow the crawling of search engine spiders like Googlebot, Bing Bot, MSN Bot…
SSL Site Seals
SSL Site Seals
Back in the early days of the web, someone thought thought it would be cool to create seal of authenticity assets for your SSL certificate that you could place on your website as a symbol of trust…
DigitalOcean Special Offer
DigitalOcean Special Offer
We have recently partnered with DigitalOcean and are proud to offer $10 FREE credit for the DigitalOcean cloud hosting platform when you signup from this page! DigitalOcean brings you cloud computing that’s easy to manage and scale for unbeatable prices!
Creating Iconsets (ICNS)
Creating Iconsets (ICNS)
Did you know you can customize nearly all of the icons on your Mac? It’s no big secret and lots of people are aware of this. You can customize your folder icons, your application icons even your internal and external drive icons. Depending on what icon you are customizing, you may or may not need…
PHP Open Port Tester
PHP Open Port Tester
One of my favorite network tool websites is YouGetSignal.com and recently I was using their open port tester to ensure my port forwarding rules were working. I started wondering how difficult it would be to setup an open port tester using PHP and turns out it was really easy…