I have this personal web application that was built from scratch last year and has already been considerably indexed by google. I used some Apache mod rewrite to make the urls friendly. Last week I decided it would be faster/easier to jumpstart the project again if I just focus on my application and just use… Read More Create rewrite rules for friendly url for WordPress plugin custom queries
If you have sensitive data on your site, you may want to install an SSL Certificate to make it more secure. Here is a brief tutorial being on AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance on how to set it up. My server settings are Apache2 and Ubuntu 9.x
If you have an EC2 instance to run your application and an RDS instance for your database. On your EC2 instance you are in luck as you can easily change the time zone of the machine. Like set it to GST or by location like below # ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Dubai /etc/localtime
Lazy coding got the better of me as one of the sites I built got hacked. The site is running on a custom php framework I built. Security wise it was still too infant and alot of security needs to be patched. Through SQL Injection via the URL the hacker was able to get into… Read More Protection from SQL Injection and XSS Attack on CKEditor
Noticed a bug on my Safari after upgrading to Lion. Haven’t been able to recreate it is as it appears to be random, when using Safari and you close some tabs. When you try to quit the Safari, the option is greyed out from the Safari Menu and Command+Q does not work. If you try… Read More Safari Bug on Lion: The application Safari canceled restart
Been using Version Control System on our company projects for a couple of years now. I’ve installed Subversion before on a dedicated Linux hosting(Known Host) and everything is straightforward since I have root access. Recently my personal hosting account with bluehost got renewed and I’m not really utilizing the server that much I figured to… Read More Install Subversion on Bluehost, configuring subversion client on Windows and Mac OS X