Vanessa Vasile

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phpacademy.org Offers FREE PHP Tutorials

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Mar 31, 2011, 5:13 pm
There’s a new site out there that’s offering high quality PHP video tutorials – for FREE!  All you PHP gurus, check out phpacademy.org.  They currently have over 200 PHP and MySQL tutorials for both beginner and intermediate users.  Unlike other PHP tutorial sites, phpacademy is unique beca...
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People, Don't Quit Your Day Jobs

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Mar 1, 2011, 12:43 pm
A buddy of mine, recently unemployed from a stint at a high-paying electronics company, was telling me the other day that he said that he’d been living off his wife’s income but plans to take up blogging to make ends meet. Oh geez…go on the Internet much? I see time and time again where these...
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Error Installing APC via PECL

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Feb 27, 2011, 7:31 pm
I got the following error when compiling APC on one of the servers: /root/APC-3.1.6/apc.c:464: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘nreg’ To fix this, make sure that PHP is installed with PCRE support (type php -m for a list of modules), then install the pcre-devel package: yum install...
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Using POST Variables Outside the Loop

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Feb 24, 2011, 11:58 am
I was working on this mini contact form the other day where a user basically enters in a bunch of info, the form submits to itself via PHP_SELF, and sends out an email. Oddly enough, once I transferred the form to its permanent home and spent a decent chunk of time trying to figure out why it wasn...
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Gambling Fever

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Feb 22, 2011, 8:25 pm
Before meeting my fiancé, the most exposure I’d had to gambling was the occasional friendly late night nickel/dime/quarter poker games you have with friends after a night of partying when you eventually get bored and have nothing else to do.  Well, that was then – nowadays I’m upping my hous...
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Catching SoapClient Errors

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Feb 1, 2011, 1:03 pm
I recently wrote a PHP script that uses SoapClient to connect to a SOAP server to verify username/password credentials for a monitoring system.  The script basically returns the result as a yes or no – however, as we all know with SOAP, when you hit an error you get a mess of crap that comes back...
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One of Those "Ksplice Saved Our Asses" Moments

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Jan 15, 2011, 1:01 am
There comes a time in every sysadmin’s life when you realize that as long as you have your job, you’re never going to have a life have friends sleep have a break from all the madness When you fix server A, server B breaks. When you patch exploit 1, exploit 2 strikes threefold.  And to top it o...
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Simple Way to Parse an x509 Certificate with PHP

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Nov 3, 2010, 11:07 am
PHP has a nifty little function for parsing an x.509 SSL certificate into an array to easily pull out the elements: openssl_x509_parse .Essentially, all you need to do is load up the contents of the certificate, either through a file or POST value, and enclose it in the array. Here’s a simple scri...
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Dear , It's not your IP – Your Site Is Just…Unpopular

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Sep 9, 2010, 9:02 pm
At least twice a month I get an all so familiar request from hopeful customers looking to boost their Internet presence: “Yea, I’m going to need about a bazillion IPs for all my sites. Oh, and they all need to be on different subnets. Ya know, SEO shit. I’m going to make it to the top” …...
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Wireless BroadBand vs. Home Broadband?

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Sep 7, 2010, 8:35 pm
According to www.broadbandexpert.com.au, there has been a 45% rise in sales of wireless broadband plans in Australia during 2009, after a huge rise in popularity of mobile broadband sales in European countries during 2008 and early 2009.  While wireless broadband is clearly not yet a full replaceme...
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Review of ReclaiMe Data Recovery Software

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Aug 5, 2010, 10:06 pm
We all know how much it sucks to have a hard drive fail – months or even years worth of data down the drain. And I bet you don’t do regular backups, do you? I came across ReclaiME from a review site. It’s software (that unfortunately only works on Windows) that you can install on your compute...
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Using PHP to Extract Image Exif Data

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Aug 2, 2010, 8:24 am
Those of us fluent in digital photography have come across the term “Exif data” numerous times when it comes to software we use to digitally manipulate photographs. Exif (Exchangeable image file format) data is generally used to identify the properties of the camera that snapped a picture, and u...
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Simple PHP Script for RBL Checking

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Jul 16, 2010, 4:43 pm
It’s useful for ISP’s and email service providers to run occasional RBL checks against their IPs to know when they are being blacklisted by populate CBL services. I’ve written a simple script that utilizes the DNSBL pear library to check against common blacklists, when given a list of IPs in a...
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This Week's Sexy Articles

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Jun 4, 2010, 10:41 am
The Developer Obsession with Code Names – Pingdom Website feeling overweight? Slim it down with Smush.it – Diary of a Ninja Really Useful Tutorials You Should Have Read in May 2010 – W3 Avenue Beautiful and Useful 404 Error Pages for Inspiration – 6 Revisions 15 Great Content Management ...
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The Fine Line Between Spam and Email Marketing

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Jun 3, 2010, 3:26 pm
If I had a Viagra pill for every time I confronted a spammer who pulled the “email marketing” excuse… There’s no debate, no exceptions, and no justification. If you’re sending out massive amounts of unsolicited email, you’re a spammer. Period.  You’re not running a legitimate or resp...
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Programming Tip: Assume Your Users are Idiots

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - May 30, 2010, 11:52 pm
Any programmer knows the golden rule of programming – no matter how well you’ve coded an application, there’s always going to be something wrong with it. I’ve done enough development work to have a lasting suspicion that if there’s a bug or hole to be found, someone will stumble upon it an...
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ReviewMe Had an Oopsie

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - May 29, 2010, 10:59 am
There’s a common understanding in the developer community that when you’re testing code, don’t do it on a live site. And if you do, make sure it’s transparent to the user.  This faux pas tends to be unforgivable when you’re a major review site getting thousands of hits...
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This Week's Sexy Articles

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - May 28, 2010, 2:32 pm
How to Design a Clean and Minimal Business Website :: Voosh Themes 10+1 Things they Never Teach In College About Programming :: Making Good Software 10 Free Web Hosting Control Panels to Manage Servers Easier :: Web Resources Depot How to Fix PHP Vulnerabilities (So Your Site Won’t Get Hack...
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PHP 5.3: Why We're All Late to the Party

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - May 27, 2010, 2:59 pm
It’s been almost a year since the PHP 5.3 branch was released to the PHP community, and yet we’re all still in the shadow of PHP 5.2.  If you’re just a faithful customer wondering why your host isn’t getting with the times, I’ll tell you exactly why: We don’t sto...
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Guest Post: Is the Internet Getting Too Cluttered?

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - May 26, 2010, 1:46 pm
I wrote a guest post today on Associated Content – my first ever post on this media site. Have a look! http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5418390/is_the_internet_getting_too_cluttered.html?cat=15
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Command Line PHP: Part 3

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - May 25, 2010, 10:38 am
This is part third and final part in my PHP command line tutorial series. If you didn’t see parts 1 and 2: Command Line PHP: Part 1 Command Line PHP: Part 2 More File and Disk Functions Getting Disk Space and Usage The disk_total_size and disk_free_space functions can tell you how much dis...
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Command Line PHP: Part 2

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - May 21, 2010, 3:51 pm
This post is continuing on my three-part series on command line PHP programming. Missed part one? It’s right behind you. This part will go over command execution and processes. Command Execution Let’s start with the basics – you need to execute an arbitrary command from your PHP ...
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Contact

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - May 18, 2010, 2:54 pm
Use this form to contact me. I kindly ask that you not use the contact form on my personal site to ask for IMH or Jaymod technical support. *(denotes required field) Name:* E-Mail Address:...
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Command Line PHP – Part 1

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - May 18, 2010, 2:10 pm
PHP isn’t just for websites anymore. In fact, almost every script I’ve written to perform server-side functions is either written in bash or PHP, rather than Perl or Python as preferred by my colleagues. It’s a common belief that PHP isn’t suited for CLI programming since it&...
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Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - May 16, 2010, 3:43 pm
This was a particularly annoying error message that was occurring for one of my legacy plugins that I refuse to get rid of. There are a lot of sites that indicate the problem is with a failed upgrade or misnamed database tables,but for me it was simply an issue with an old plugin and wasn’t ha...
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Recovering a File System in Linux

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Apr 23, 2010, 2:03 am

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Wordpress Thinks Network Solutions is Stupid

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Apr 22, 2010, 8:27 pm
Quick quiz: What does a hosting provider do when they know they’ve messed up and don’t want to deal with the fallout? You apparently blame Wordpress. Don’t get me wrong here – being behind the scenes of server management for a webhosting company makes you the target of a lo...
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5 New Toys You May Not Know About

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Apr 9, 2010, 1:45 am
BlogSell BlogSell is the next generation of managing blog income.  There are dozens of services out there that assist with buying and selling ads, but this one actually helps you keep track of all your banners and affiliate links, as well as various sources of blog income such as paid reviews, ban...
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Officially off the Market

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Mar 28, 2010, 10:44 pm
I’d like to announce that my boyfriend of exactly 5 months has proposed to me…and of course I said yes!  We’re planning on getting married in mid-2011.
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8 Steps to Starting a Free Online Service

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Mar 28, 2010, 5:42 pm
Working in the web hosting industry, I come across a lot of interesting sites and not surprisingly, I’ve found that a good number of new site owners have at least one of two goals in mind – to become well-known on the Internet, or to make money…sometimes even both.  It’s als...
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Using PHP to Perform DNS Lookups

Vanessa Vasile posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
PHP has a couple DNS functions you can use to perform record lookups. Most of us are familiar with the two basic ones – gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr(), both of which perform a single function – returning a hostname or IP address. Here’s an example of both: $ip = gethostbyname("v-nessa...
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