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Code and Development
Tom Furmanski

Redirect Old Domain to New Domain via .htaccess

When you migrate a site from one domain to another, it is very important that you don’t break all the links that you built to your old domain. Proper redirection of all the pages on the old domain to the same location on the new domain will ensure that visitors to the old domain will end up in the right place.  A failure to redirect will result in a loss of visitors as well as search engine rankings.

Tom Furmanski 16th August 2019 10:08 am
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Code and Development
Chris Grant (he/him)

Controlling call flow in the Asterisk Dialplan using Curl and Json

In this article we are going to see how we can use cURL to query an external HTTP service and read a response in JSON format and take action on the values returned to control the call flow in our dialplan.

Chris Grant (he/him) 8th March 2019 9:13 pm
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Code and Development
Chris Grant (he/him)

If your website relies on PHP 5, it’s time to get ready for PHP 7

Now is the time to give PHP 5 some attention. In less than two months, on December 31st, security support for PHP 5 will officially cease. (Note: Some Linux distributions, such as Debian Long Term Support distributions, will still try to backport security fixes.)

Chris Grant (he/him) 15th November 2018 5:15 pm
Code and Development
Chris Grant (he/him)

Re-Allowing ‘root’ access to PhpMyAdmin in newer versions of MySQL (or MariaDB)

In newer versions of MySQL (or MariaDB) the ‘root’ user can no longer connect remotely to the database server via PhpMyAdmin (and other such tools). After searching and finding a few backwards and complicated solutions there is actually a simpler way, very simple in fact. In just 3 quick steps.

Chris Grant (he/him) 22nd September 2018 10:21 am
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Code and Development
Chris O'Brien

Fight back against email spoofing

SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework. It’s an email authentication method that helps identify the mail servers that are permitted to send email from a particular domain name. Using this validation method, ISPs can determine when spoofers and phishers are trying to forge emails from your domain name to send malicious email to your customers.

By using SPF you can not only help protect your customers but also get your emails accepted for delivery to email services such as Gmail and those provided by Microsoft who are increasingly looking at ways to prevent spam and phishing emails from reaching their customers' mailboxes.

Chris O'Brien 20th September 2017 6:08 am