Easily backup a windows based MySQL server using a scheduled bat file, including archiving and removal of older backups.
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Programming & Development
Need an easy way to allow external network users to access services or websites on your local machine? ngrok allows you to easily create a secure tunnel from ngroks servers to your machine. For a web developer, this is a dream come true, this is a great way to demo a development whilst in the
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Laravel defaults to storing all dates in UTC format, this is highly recommended as UTC time never changes unlike other time zones which have daylight savings. It is best practice to store and read dates in UTC, and then convert UTC to your required time zone for the user interface. Great article below of a
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Damaged or crashed MySQL tables due to an unsafe server shut downs, disk space limits or general MySQL failures? Do a find and find and repair on your damaged MySQL tables.
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All app’s and websites these days need to work for several devices including desktop, tablets and mobiles. It’s not always simple detecting the type of device being used and it can sometimes be tedious adding support to your app for something which seems very simple. Does your chosen platform not have a pre-defined way of
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Want to Speed up your website images and improve user experience? Make sure you use progressive JPEGs (or interlaced JPEGs), it could help make your website load faster and retain visitors for a longer duration. Take a look at the example below showing a normal baselayer JPEG and a progressive JPEG LOADING side by side.
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Forgot your WordPress admin login details or a previous developer is unwilling to give you the WordPress login details, well the answer is very simple. As long as you have database access you can use the website below to generate a new password hashsum, simply replace the origional password value with the new hashsum and
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Adding the following code to the top of your PHP script will allow that page to show PHP error messages and override the php.ini defaults. This is a good and simple way to quickly debug a page without having to adjust your main PHP config (which isn’t always possible).
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Here is a function I have created which is used to generate a sequence of random numbers, letters and symbols. I currently use it on a number of projects including http://passworded.co.uk which is a simple password generator.
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