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Perl One Liners

By Jeff BenshetlerNovember 3, 2014Server Side, Software, Tools, Tutorial

Overview Perl has a reputation as a write-only language and one that is difficult to use. While you can write unreadable code in any language, aspects of Perl make it difficult for novices to read and encourage poor readability. There is one area where Perl remains the unquestioned champion: one-liners. One Liner Perl was originally

My Favorite Tools for Web Development

By Jeff BenshetlerMay 14, 2014Tools, Web

SSH Connection My workstation runs Windows 7 x64 and while I have tried PuTTy and Cygwin, for stability and ease-of-user I’ve settled on using NetSarang’s XShell as my favorite SSH tool. PuTTy worked well for me until I started using Windows 7. With the advent of Windows 7, PuTTy began to drop connections intermittently. I

Learning Web Programing in 2014

By Jeff BenshetlerJanuary 31, 2014Webcss, html, jQuery, learning, validator

Give me just a second while I get comfortable in my rocking chair. Ahh, there we go. So, you want to learn to program the Web? Create a real project on which to learn. Write requirements for the project before you start. Do the project on something you care about. Learn to use the developer

Updating PHP on CentOS 6.3

By Jeff BenshetlerDecember 28, 2012PHP, Server Side, Site, Software, Tutorial, Webcentos, php, update, yum

Despite the fact that this references i386 when installing the repository, the subsequent package updates work for x86_64. [bash] rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm yum –enablerepo=remi,remi-test install httpd php php-common yum –enablerepo=remi,remi-test install php-pecl-apc php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysql php-pgsql php-pecl-mongo php-sqlite php-pecl-memcache php-pecl-memcached php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml service httpd restart [/bash]

Setting Up EC2 Web Server

By Jeff BenshetlerSeptember 14, 2012HTML, Server Side

Getting X11 Forwarding Working It can be confusing to see the report {code}WARNING! The remote SSH server rejected X11 forwarding request.{/code}. You’ve made sure that {bash}/etc/ssh/sshd_config{/bash} has X11 forwarding enabled and that a local X Server is running. The problem is that many servers do not have {bash}xauth{/bash} installed by default. Adding this enables X11

Getting Started with Zend Framework

By Jeff BenshetlerJuly 25, 2012Zendinstall, linux, server-side, zend

Over the weekend I get Zend Framework installed and working on a fresh copy of the Linux distribution Centos 6.2. I had to add the following repositories to

/etc/yum.repos.d

1	/etc/yum.repos.d

to get everything to install. The most helpful sites were Setup Zend Server and Magneto on Centos 6 and Install Zend Server…On CentOS 6. Be careful

Golden Hammer

By Jeff BenshetlerJuly 20, 20121 commentMVC Framework, Zendantipattern, client-side, framework, JavaScript, php, server-side, wordpress, zend

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~Abraham Maslow WordPress has been very good to me for the blogging and social media sites that I’ve worked on lately. Now, I have a commercial project not related to social media; my plan was to use WordPress as the

Icon Sources

By Jeff BenshetlerJuly 17, 2012Images, VendorIcon, Vector Graphics, Vendor

It’s only once you start developing your web app and have passed the point of “Will it work” do you start to consider icons. Having nice icons used appropriately is one of the things that differentiates professionally-built sites. While it is worth paying for icons, its also nice to start with free ones. When you

Facebook Like on WordPress, FB with AJAX Content

By Jeff BenshetlerJuly 15, 2012WordPressajax, facebook, plugin, seo, square-peg, wordpress

It has been a multi-hour struggle today to get working Facebook Like buttons on photomagic.biz. There are at least 5 plugins, that all fail to a greater or lesser degree – mostly greater. We’re using a child them of Twentyeleven. The only real changes to the child are reductions is padding and margins. It doesn’t