Say you’ve got a list of 100+ cities, and you want to create a website with 100+ pages (one per city). All of the pages should be basically the same, but include the appropriate city name in the text, and vary just in some minor details. You could create a PHP or ASP page that [...]
For the ubergeeks: If you’re running behind a port-based firewall (think “packet filter”) and you want to allow for passive FTP, you’ve got a problem. Passive FTP (which is very friendly to remote firewalls) plays havoc with tightly defined firewalls that protect the server. If you’re not familiar with the specifics of how FTP works, [...]
Here’s an excellent tutorial from Thawte for extracting the private key from the SSL certificate on an IIS4 server: http://kb.thawte.com/thawte/thawte/esupport.asp?id=vs1576 This came in handy when I was migrating sites from one of our old servers onto a new server running H-Sphere (which wants you to plug in the private key and the public key rather [...]
Here’s a new challenge: I’ve been tapped to write and preach the sermon at our church on June 12. I’m excited, but a little nervous, too…this is something I’ve never done before. I teach a bible study class each Sunday, but this is way beyond that. I spent much of yesterday researching the planned readings [...]
Marcus Tucker has some great ASP code snippets on his blog. In particular, I borrowed some bits from his Old dog…new tricks post to build a remote API system into ASP…something like a low-budget SOAP implementation.
Firefox 1.0.4 was released this afternoon, apparently to plug some rather egregious security holes. Naturally, I installed it immediately. And Thunderbird has been flakey ever since. It’ll run for a little while and then go into a coma and stop responding to the outside world in any meaningful way. Shut it down and the process [...]
Christopher’s bike had a flat tire…totally worn out from skidding to a stop (standard bicycle stopping procedure for a seven-year-old). So we ran it by the bike shop to get a new tire, and got a real shock: $37 for a new tube and tire. This was particularly distressing, since the bike was too small [...]
Unbelievable. Today I got my first CommentSpam™ on my Blogware-hosted blog. I knew it was only a matter of time, but still it was a surprise to get the accompanying comment notification by email. Yes, the IP has been blocked (not that it’ll do much good), and it has not been obfuscated, in case you wish [...]
I recently read Michael Gerber’s outstanding book, The E-Myth Revisited. It was an odd experience, as it seemed as though Mr. Gerber was writing the book to me and me alone…sort of like he knew what kinds of things were troubling me as I embarked on a new path in life as the sole employee [...]