Archive for "Miscelleneous"
Jan24How to edit or download .htaccess from cpanel file manager where it is hidden
In my cpanel (dont know the version number) it didn’t show .htaccess file and hid it by default. If it happens and as a lazy person like me you dont want to do ftp like things to get the htaccess appeared on you, just click on a visible file and open it in cpanel editor. It will give you the url something like below. Click to continue »
Jan04Keyword shortcuts to working files or buffers in jEdit
Hint: By buffers in jEdit it means working files (area), which is shown in the image below:
Oct10Fixing “empty characters with grayed background” in LibreOffice document content
I copied one of my email’s content into a LibreOffice document for saving as a .doc or .docx. While looking at the pasted content it was weird to have a lot of empty spaces(tabs, spaces and/or newline characters, whatever) with grayed background in the content. You can into a part of the document, in the image below, to see what i mean: Click to continue »
Jun06Creating rss feed dynamically and merging it with another rss feed
Recently i generated a rss feed from business listings for one of my client’s website. Also, i merged this listings feed into client’s existing blog rss feed. Here’s how i did it. Click to continue »
Jun06How to create/configure an ftp account in EditPlus
To create an ftp account in EditPlus follow the steps listed below. Click to continue »
Feb10phpMyAdmin PHP Code Injection Exploit attempt on my server
This morning, when i checked my Give Back India site’s access log i found some scripts/setup.php request attempts. In fact, not ‘some’ but hundreds of them. All requests were made targeting phpMyAdmin’ installations on my server. Here are a few of them: Click to continue »
Oct06Fixing ‘mysql’ is not recognized as an internal or external command in Windows7
Having WAMP installed when i try to type mysql in my windows command prompt it would give me the following error: Click to continue »
Oct02How to add HTML tag keyboard and toolbar shortcuts to Notepad++
(skip to implementation) Like most computer users i do prefer to use keyboard shortcuts and while working with web pages in particular, keyboard shortcuts and visual shortcuts in editor toolbars speed up development work considerably. There are HTML editors like Adobe Dreamweaver which do almost everything automatically for you, but you need to purchase a license to permanently use them and also they seem to consume large amount of computer RAM. Click to continue »
Sep13Adding (Explorer – file browser) plugin to Notepad++
Once i decided to give Notepad++ a serious try as my default code editor the first major thing i noticed was the non availability of explorer like file browsing panel (generally to the left side). After a few bits of r&d i reached at the conclusion that Notepad++ had Explorer plug-in which could be installed with a few clicks! Click to continue »
Apr28Resume download of PART extension file in Firefox
In some cases, when a large file had been downloaded through Mozilla Firefox, downloading of file gets interrupted for some reason. The Firefox would tag the download as “failed” and you are left with nothing but a .PART file. You right click it, it would ask you to ‘retry’ which would restart the download from the beginning. In my case i had been downloading a 100MB zip file and it failed once 97MB of it was downloaded. Click to continue »
