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Yesterday, I was uploading a large number of files with FileZilla. While it was uploading, I tried to visit a website with Firefox. There was a very bizarre problem–when I typed the letter “e”, the My Computer window opened. However, there is a simple fix for this:
Last month, my 3 year old Mac finally kicked the bucket. The Starting Mac OS X screen would appear and the progress bar would reach the end, but the computer would not go any further. 2 months before I had first become aware of the hard drive problem, and backed up all the important stuff onto CD-RWs, but of course after it died I thought of some more stuff I needed. So here’s a quick way of getting your files off.
Stuff You Need:
Now, let’s get started!
/usr/sbin/sshd
sh /etc/rc
Host: your Mac’s IP address (check your router manual, for a Linksys router it is 192.168.1.1xx)
Server type: SFTP
Logon type: Normal
User: your username
Password: your password
Hope this helps!
Tags: macWordPress (WP) is great as is, but did you know that you could improve it? Plugins add more to the functionality to your blog. The official plugin directory has a lot, but I will focus on my favorites.
Blogs are useless unless they have some readers. If you write articles, you should try to optimize them for search engines. This extension has many options, such as changing the home page title and description and changing the format of the titles of various pages.
If you run a coding blog, you need a plugin like this. This one uses JavaScript to highlight code in many different languages. You can see it in use on this site.
This is a plugin for you artists/photographers. It displays a gallery of images on a page you specify, and contains many admin features such as uploading from a zip file, albums, and roles, so people other than the main admin can modify the gallery.
Social media sites are among the best ways to get a lot of traffic (assuming your server can handle it!). This plugin adds a button to the bottom of each post. Click it, and the users can submit the post to sites like Digg or StumbleUpon, email it, or post it on their own blogs.
Spam is very annoying for blog owners. It adds lots of junk to the moderation queue, and spams your inbox if you have notifications enabled. This extension uses multiple tests to verify that the commenter is human, and does not require an account on another website.
And now you know 5 more methods of making your blog better. Happy blogging!
Tags: wordpressAfter a long day of web programming, why not relax for a while? These sites will help with that.
If you’re like me you probably have a blog as well as another site. I have found that an effective way to get vistiors to the blog is to link to it from the main site, assuming that that site is more popular. RSS (Really Simple Syndicate) is a way of syndicating your blog to other areas of the web. It is based on XML and generated automatically by Wordpress.
A PHP RSS parser is MagpieRSS. We will be using it in the following tutorial.
<?php
require_once('rss/rss_fetch.inc'); //Include the MagpieRSS include file
$url = 'http://yoursite.com/blog/?feed=rss2'; //Set a variable containing the URL to your blogs RSS feed
$rss = fetch_rss($url); //Retrieve the posts
$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 5); //Only show the first 5 posts (the second number can be customized to suit your needs)
$posts = '';
foreach ($items as $item) { //Loop through the items
$href = $item['link'];
$cat = $item['category'];
$title = $item['title'];
$date = $item['pubdate'];
$text = $item['content']['encoded'];
$text = preg_replace('/<img [^>]+\/?>/', '[image]', $text); //Replace images with [image]
$text = preg_replace('/<\/?[^>]+>/', '', $text); //Get rid of HTML
$posts .= "<li><a href=$href>$title</a> <em>".substr($text, 0, 100)."</em></li>"; //Print the current post title linked to the page on your blog, and the first 100 chars of the post
}
echo $posts;
?>
Spambots are undoubtably among the most annoying problems for web developers. They look for forms on your site, and submit links to their own websites, repeated many times and mixed with keywords. One way to deter them is a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart). One common form of this is an image with distorted letters, and the user has to type in the letters. I find those really annoying, and unless you are very popular you probably don’t need something so difficult to crack. Our CAPTCHA will ask the user to answer an addition problem.
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If you are going to have a site where users can submit stuff, and the stuff is listed on one page, you definitely need pagination. Pagination scripts consist of two main parts: getting the correct records and displaying them, and displaying the page links at the bottom.
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This is a quite easy method of transferring files between your networked Windows and Mac computers.
First, go to System Preferences, Sharing, and check the Enable Remote Login box. What this does is start an SSH server on the computer. We will use this server to connect from the PC later.
Now, you need a FTP over SSH (SFTP) client. FileZilla is an excellent open source program for this purpose. After installing it on your Windows PC, launch it. Select Site Manager from the File menu. Select New Site, and use the following settings:
Now, you should be able to click Connect and access the files on your Mac!
Tags: filezilla, mac, networking, sftpA user authentication system is required for most large webapps. The login script we will make in this tutorial will be flatfile based, and contain login, register, and logout features.
Tags: loginI'm a student/web developer from the United States. I hope these posts are useful! If you have a question, leave a comment, or contact me using one of the links below.
