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Techno Babble

Web Development, Operating Systems, Electronics and anything else that I do to earn a living

One of the great features with my Synology NAS, is that it uses the Let’ Encrypt SSL certificates. I am using my NAS for personal use so I didn’t want to spend money on a SSL certificate nor do I want to use a Self Signed one. Synology has a […]

Using Let’s Encrypt for Plex on Synology

28 Jun, 2017 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

I have had to pleasure to start working with ZF2 Element\Collection the last couple of weeks. Boy can I tell you what fun it is, especially with Zend’s fantastic/useful documentation; can you smell the sarcasm? I did have the benefit of looking at another team members work done in a […]

Fun with Zend Form Collections

7 Apr, 2016 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

In a current project I am working on I have a client that requested to have a single page allowing them to update six existing PDF files. The files uploaded are not guaranteed to have the same file name currently on the server, and they will not always be updating […]

File uploading with Zend

28 Mar, 2016 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

Be very, very careful when making changes to your .htaccess file. If you aren’t extremely comfortable with code test this on a development site thoroughly. Some of these options might break some sites and work on others, depending on your server configuration. WordPress creates a .htaccess file during the installation process. Anything […]

.htaccess tips to securing WordPress

21 Mar, 2016 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

After my last post where I mentioned some best practices to secure a WordPress installation, I went back to some older installations. As those had the default table prefixes on them; I went ahead and updated the wp-config.php file and preceded to alter the table names. After the precedure the […]

Changing Default table prefix for WordPress

14 Mar, 2016 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

I was in the middle of setting up my developers blog again, and getting everything configured when I lost all connection to it. I contacted my hosting provider and they came back and said: “It looks like you managed to trigger a mod_security rule and get yourself blocked from the server. […]

Mod Security and WordPress

10 Mar, 2016 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

The CFSPREADSHEET function introduced in ColdFusion 9 is a great time saver. As anyone can attest to spreadsheets reign supreme in business. Before CF 9, our team used Ben Nadel’s POI Utility Component for most of our spreadsheets. It worked great for all of our CF 8 applications, but the […]

Using cfspreadsheet in CF9

4 Mar, 2013 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

A couple of weeks ago our group had to do some email investigation. In the span of a couple of days we received a series of complaints that our CF server wasn’t delivering email. Of course the tickets stated that all email wasn’t being delivered – which was an exaggeration […]

Same basic sendmail trouble shooting steps

16 Jul, 2012 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce