Code Stuff

How to secure your Wordpress blog by setting up SSL

kihbord — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:12:57 +0000

The latest (from version 2.6) version of Wordpress has support for making the admin section of your Wordpress site use SSL or Secure Sockets Layer. This means that you’d be able to encrypt your admin pages if you want to. Encrypting the admin pages provides more security for your Wordpress site. In order to enforce SSL [...]

A simple way to find out the location of a running shell script

kihbord — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:16:07 +0000

When a shell script is executed, the default directory would normally be the current directory of the user when the script is called. If you get into a situation wherein you want to determine the location of the shell script when it was called by the user, you can do the following within the shell [...]

Making CSS work with Firefox and Internet Explorer

kihbord — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:40:48 +0000

I have just finished up on updating my Javamidlet.com web site. It’s been almost a year since I’ve made any changes to the site’s wordpress theme. The theme I use on Javamidlet was one of my early themes when I was still learning how to make them in Wordpress. I’ve learned quite a few from the [...]

How to check if a Javascript variable is an array

kihbord — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:39:13 +0000

Looking for the simplest way to check if a Javascript variable / object is an array? Here’s a simple way on how to check for an Array variable in javascript: function isArray(variable) { if (variable.constructor == Array) return true; else return false; } or better yet, just do this: function isArray(variable) { return (variable.constructor == Array); }

Bash script to empty a mysql database

kihbord — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:04:18 +0000

I wrote a bash shell script that deletes all the tables in a mysql database and I thought I’d just post it here in case anyone might find it useful. It accepts one required argument which is the database name and one optional argument which is the username with DROP/CREATE DATABASE privileges to dbname [...]

How to empty a mysql database

kihbord — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:08:23 +0000

This morning I was doing some tests and I found myself having to use a web-based mysql tool called phpmyadmin to delete all the tables in a mysql database. Since I was to do it several times, I decided to use the command line interface program mysql. I was kinda surprise that I didn’t find any [...]

Using mailto links in web pages

kihbord — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:44:37 +0000

Yesterday, I found myself in a situation, wherein I wanted to provide a mailto link that will not only include a subject but also an initial body when a web site visitor clicks on the link. I was quite sure that it was possible but couldn’t remember how to do it so after some googling, I [...]

Project Gazell source code released to public

kihbord — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:43:10 +0000

In an effort to improve private torrent trackers the Project Gazelle team has created a reliable, lightweight and secure codebase. It was designed from the ground up to be secure against SQL and XSS injection attacks and at the same time be able to handle thousands of users. The source code, which is currently undergoing beta, [...]

The .NET Source Code soon to be released

kihbord — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:43:34 +0000

Looks like Microsoft will be releasing the source code for the .NET framework for the soon to be released version 3.5 of the framework. ScottGu has made the announcement on his blog. This is welcome news for .NET developers because it will help a lot in creating and debugging .NET software. The .NET source code release [...]

How to pass data in neutral way in C++

kihbord — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:40:40 +0000

I have often thought what would really be the easiest, efficient (in terms of coding, performance, storage) way of passing data across a network or even just among several software applications. Different solutions have been available depending on different applications. The current trend of using XML as a universal way to pass around data has been [...]