Modern.ie Vagrant Boxes

The Modern.ie Virtual Machine Images – VMs used for testing several versions of IE – are now also available as vagrant boxes. Here’s the list: XP with IE6: http://aka.ms/vagrant-xp-ie6 XP with IE8: http://aka.ms/vagrant-xp-ie8 Vista with IE7: http://aka.ms/vagrant-vista-ie7 Windows 7 with IE8: http://aka.ms/vagrant-win7-ie8 Windows 7 with IE9: http://aka.ms/vagrant-win7-ie9 Windows 7 with IE10: http://aka.ms/vagrant-win7-ie10 Windows 7 with …

cPanel mass delete forwarders

One of the things I miss in cPanel is a way to mass delete forwarders. With the current version of cPanel you need to click the delete link next to each forwarder. Above that you don’t actually delete that forwarder upon clicking, you are taken to a confirm page where you need to click “confirm” …

Storing MD5 values

A common occurrence I have noticed in MySQL apps is that MD5 values are stored as 32 byte values rather than 16. Just to ‘rehash’, an MD5 value is a 16 byte hexadecimal value, typically used as a unique fixed-length signature of a string, useful for identifying unique strings or one-way encryption of passwords. The …

Feastdance / A Feast with Dragons / A Dance for Crows

Are you reading A Song of Ice and Fire for the first time? Have you heard that volumes four and five – A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons – cover the same time period but split up the characters, so that most of the people who appear in Feast don’t show up …