Mapping Linux (ext3) File System for use in Apache under Windows

May 26th, 2009

After setting the Windows hard drive as the primary boot device I set out to not only read the Linux filesystem (ext3) with all my work but to also continue it in Apache under Windows which, to my surprise, was actually very easy. By the end of this reference you should be able to use your Linux filesystem within Windows and use Apache to read and use the website related content off your Linux filesystem.

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A Basic Introduction to chmod for Linux

May 21st, 2009

chmod (short for change mode) is a shell command for Linux (and other Unix-like systems) for changing file and directory permissions. With Linux being a popular server solution it is an important command to learn and understand especially for the likes of website development on Linux based HTTP servers.

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URI Rewriting Alongside Wordpress’ PermaLinks

May 18th, 2009

With the release of this Journal I decided to use Wordpress’ permalinks, which basically provides an easy hassle-free option for rewriting Wordpress’ URI’s. When uploading my most recent site there was a conflict with .htaccess and my rewrites simply weren’t working.

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Changing Device Driver for NetworkManager (nm-applet)

May 17th, 2009

As Ubuntu’s NetworkManager applet (nm-applet) has no option to change the driver you’re required to do it manually, which this reference will demonstrate. As an example we’ll be changing the default driver (rtl8180 for me) to use ndiswrapper.

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PHP DOM Document Class

May 17th, 2009

The PHP DOMDocument class in PHP allows you to manipulate HTML and XML files by getting elements, creating elements, validating pages, saving pages and more.

In this quick example we’ll use the DOM Document class to extract links from a remote page, something I’ve had to do recently.

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Object Doesnt Support this Property or Method (IE)

May 17th, 2009

I recently encountered this problem using Javascript and Internet Explorer. It worked perfectly fine in other browsers although (for a change) I think MSHTML has got this right enforcing good practice.

Object Doesnt Support this Property or Method can occur in Internet Explorer when you declare a variable that has the same name as a document object.

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