http://www.phinesolutions.com A web log for web work Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:36:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week Amazon A3 was down for 4 hours and made a lot of webmasters unhappy. It further proves that it is quite risky to design your site solely relying on A3 to provide the essential functionalities, at least for now. One way to reduce the risk is to have a ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/a-follow-up-on-using-amazon-aws.html Good documentation can save a lot of time to look for the information that you have once obtained. I had been looking for some documentation system that can help me to write down notes and finally decided to use a wiki. Using a wiki can provide some great benefits: It is web ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/document-your-site-with-a-wiki.html I am by no means a PHP know-all so this might have been documented. If I have a boolean variable, say boolean x = true; and if I use it in a if statement like: if ( x == 'abc') The result will always return "true". I believe the PHP version I am using is 5.2. http://www.phinesolutions.com/a-php-boolean-variable-note.html There are a lot of talks around Yahoo's move recently. Y's decisions to reject the Microsoft deal and partner with Google on search advertising market don't sit well with a lot of people. Some think Yahoo is making stupid decisions. I beg to differ. Being bought by Microsoft will make a lot ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/is-yahoo-making-the-wrong-move.html Although frame is generally not recommended on most of the web pages, iFrame can still be useful in some occasions, especially as an Ajax alternative. One strength of Ajax is that it greatly reduces (or at least it appears so) the page response time by only changing a small part ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/use-jquery-to-adjust-the-iframe-height.html Amazon's AWS webservice has been around for a while now and recently I implemented one of my web site to use the Simple Storage Service (A3). The idea is to utilize the storage space in Amazon's computing cloud to ease the actual loads on my own web server. In this ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/amazon-aws-web-service.html I am preparing to add WYSIWYG editor to one of my project and looking for some library code to use. The selections narrowed down to FCKEditor and TinyMCE. Both of them look great and perform nicely in the demo. Now comes to the question which one to pick. This article ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/fckeditor-vs-tinymce.html Using a third party DNS have some great benefit: By outsourcing the DNS look up the load is reduced on your own server, especially like a VPS or dedicated box which runs everything: Apache, MySQL, Named. Well know DNS operates on a backbone and provide each DNS request with complete redundancy. Taking the ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/use-the-third-party-dns.html ls -F | grep "/" | xargs du -hs For admin to snoop everybody, try ls -F | grep "/" | sudo xargs du -hs http://www.phinesolutions.com/simple-command-to-find-out-the-directory-disk-usage.html me@connect-from-machine:~> ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/me/.ssh/id_rsa): Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /home/me/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/me/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: blah blah .... The command ssh-keygen -t rsa initiated the creation of ... http://www.phinesolutions.com/ssh-publicprivate-key-using-ssh-keygen.html