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PHP cURL Replacement
February 26th, 2010If you are a PHP developer who writes a lot of software which needs to be executed in many different shared hosts, it can often be frustrating when certain hosts don’t offer all of the functionality your applications require, specificially the cURL libraries. I’ve seen these missing on several hosts, either for security reasons or [...]
Flash not loading data from external domains
February 25th, 2010Are you having issues loading files from external domains to be used on a separate domain? Adobe changed the way flash works about two versions ago and introduced stricter security settings, specifically the use of crossdomain.xml files. Unlike AJAX XHR requests which allow no cross domain communications, flash allows the use of this security file which blacklists and whitelists external domains.
Chinese Characters not displaying in Internet Explorer 8
February 24th, 2010How to get foreign characters, including Japanese, Chinese, and other high unicode characters, to display properly in Internet Explorer 8.
Accessing CodeIgniter Session Data using External Scripts
February 20th, 2010PHP Sourcecode so that a non CodeIgniter PHP script can access data stored in the users CodeIgniter session.
Firefox Web Developer Toolbar Equivalent for Internet Explorer
February 19th, 2010This tool is for Internet Explorer 7 and behaves like a mashup between the two Firefox tools, Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug.
Random Session Timeouts on MediaTemple
February 16th, 2010
How to change your php.ini settings on your MediaTemple account to prevent your sessions from randomly expiring.
Using TortoiseSVN with MediaTemple Subversion
February 16th, 2010
Article on how to configure your TortoiseSVN client to access MediaTemple’s subversion repositories.
CodeIgniter .htaccess for MediaTemple
February 13th, 2010
A few tweaks need to be made to CodeIgniter to make it compatible with the MediaTemple hosting environment. This article discusses these required changes to get CI running smoothly.
Enabling file_get_contents() and fopen() With Remote URL’s on MediaTemple
February 9th, 2010
How to enable access to remote files on MediaTemple using the functions file_get_contents() and fopen().
2010 Company Updates
February 7th, 2010One of our websites, batmancomic.info, recently became an internet phenomenon, and over the course of the last three days has had over 42,000 unique visitors. Unfortunately, this had the effect of taking down our entire shared host host server. Which leads us to the second half of this update! We will be slowly moving all [...]
StockXpert is ceasing regular operations
February 6th, 2010Hopefully Stock Exchange stays around! Dear Thomas Hunter, We are sorry to announce that beginning today, StockXpert will no longer sell new credits or accept new members. On February 11, 2010, searching and downloading at StockXpert will cease. This will be the end of image sales at StockXpert. All SXP members have the opportunity to [...]