Author Archives: Bogdan

Working with mailchimp newsletters

Working with mailchimp newsletters I’ve wrote another article not so long ago with some of the best newsletter services that you can use with your websites or business, between the first in the list there is Mailchimp. I have been personally using it for a long time now with really good support overall. There’s also

How to set JAVA_HOME in your in your environment

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How to set JAVA_HOME in your in your environment When installing some applications that would require to set JAVA_HOME path for your environment you would need in most cases to manually set the JAVA_HOME path as it would not be there automatically. Normally the error you get for this is:

Adding JAVA_HOME in your

How to install open source video drivers in Ubuntu

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How to install open source video drivers in Ubuntu In my earlier article I wrote about how to install the proprietary video drivers in ubuntu, however some of you will notice that not all video cards are supported. Especially ATI cards which usually have support for linux dropped quite early. With these cards you have

How to install video proprietary drivers in Ubuntu

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How to install video proprietary drivers in Ubuntu I recently had some driver issues with my laptop, specifically related to my video display driver. I wanted to install the original proprietary display drivers for my ATI 4670 mobile display adapter but soon after noticed that I had some issues with it. I’ll explain that in

How to install GIT on windows, Mac OS X and Linux

How to install GIT on windows, Mac OS X and Linux What’s GIT? What can you do with it? Well let’s say you have a team working on a project, you need to have some kind of code review or maintenance or even versions based on certain development steps or tasks taken? That is what

Security risk using register_globals

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Security risk using register_globals There’s a security risk involved when enabling in your server register_globals, not sure if any of you noticed but I just remembered this and thought I should shout it to you all just so you are more careful. I’m currently working on a little project, not sure what will come out of

How to install bind9 DNS server on debian

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How to install bind9 DNS server on debian I’ve been wanting to write a tutorial about this for a long time now, this is also something I’ve learned the very first time I started playing with servers. In this article I’m going to show you how to install bind9 DNS server on debian (or ubuntu

How to calculate age from a given birthdate in php

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How to calculate age from a given birthdate in php? Has anyone needed to get the user age based on the profile birthdate? Well you probably thought about it now. It is possible to this and its user friendly to let someone know how old they are. Of course some of you may not want

How to change php timezone on your server

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How to change php timezone on your server Normally when using a shared hosting service, the server you are being hosted on has a different timezone set. So your scripts may be displaying a different time than what you expect. Fixing this is not hard at all, however some users think that the server timezone

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