Crontab is a utility tool on Unix-like OS that enables you to make a program daemon scheduled to run at a specified interval. For example, to fetch news feed and import them into your own database every hour on the hour or to send pre-written newsletters at a given time everyday. With DreamHost you can …
Cron jobs (Crontab jobs) tricks and tips on DreamHost Read More »
At Dreamhost, we are all granted unlimited number of accounts for SSH access to the servers. The default console setting is a monochromatic one just like that in the old DOS style that it sores the eyes to look through the lines for something. Read their wiki the other day and found it’s possible to …
Colorful Linux Bash Console by .alias and .bash_profile Read More »
Well, recently I have come across quite some tricks that will help web developers to spin out better web pages and one of them is this: actually, you don’t have to use <a name=”xxx”>xxx</a> for named anchors, in the example of <h2 id=”cottage”> <a name=”cottage”>grandpa’s warm cottage</a> </h2> you can merely rely on the ID …
Rarely heard of it from any of the popular web design / development sites (blogs, forums, info portals and so forth), there’s actually a neglectable implementation of the tag <comment> in both Internet Explorer Windows and Internet Explorer Mac. You are <comment>not</comment> browsing on Internet Explorer. You are not browsing on Internet Explorer. In IE, …
Proprietary HTML comment tag in Internet Explorer of both Windows and Mac Read More »
SSI stands for Server Side Includes that is a default module in Apache web server. In essence, it provides a very simple mechanism to include one HTML file in another one, thus tremendously reducing redundant coding and increase the ease of later maintenance. So, to get 80% out of SSI, the only directive you pretty …
One SSI directive to save all programming muggle’s effort and time Read More »
