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Thunderbird Message Filter Import/Export Enhanced
Found a Thunderbird plugin which can import and export mail filters: Thunderbird Message Filter Import/Export Enhanced.
PHP: Create Your Own MVC
A fun video with a walk-through about how to roll your own MVC framework
in PHP: PHP: Create Your Own MVC.
MySQL Database Backup Methods
Today I searched for information about backing up MySQL databases and found Database Backup Methods which seemed to be a pretty good run down on what the options are.
My backup strategy at the moment uses mysqldump and there is an article about that too: Using mysqldump for Backups.
Enabling Server Side Includes (SSIs)
I have some old web content that works using Server Side Includes and I needed to get it functional on a new web server. I found this article How do I enable server-side includes (SSIs) on my site? which had everything I needed to know.
First I needed to add the content type and output filter to the Apache configuration:
AddType text/html .shtml AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
Then I needed to add the IncludesNoExec option:
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
Then I needed to specify the DirectoryIndex:
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html
And that was it!
WordPress theme development
Reading about WordPress theme development. Found the anatomy of a WordPress theme.
Announcing Jsrun
Shawn Van Ness and I released Jsrun today. Jsrun is a script runner and suite of utility scripts written in JScript.NET for doing handy things on Windows.
Efficient PHP Debugging In Vim
Found this article today Efficient PHP Debugging In Vim which explains how to setup Vim as a PHP debugger.
There was also Debugging PHP using Xdebug and Notepad++.
HTML5 Declaration
This is too easy to forget, you would think. Yet for some reason I still look it up when I need it:
<!DOCTYPE html>
Useful OpenSSL Commands
Found a list of Useful OpenSSL Commands today. Mostly I wanted to get the subject out of a cacert.pem file which I wasn’t sure of:
openssl x509 -text -noout -in hostcert.pem