I’ve been pretty frustrated with the way that cPanel notifies (or doesn’t notify) me of bandwidth overages. Seems sometimes I get them and sometimes not. So when I found out that you can do this with the WHM XML api I wanted to get it set up ASAP. This script can be [...]

I worked for a long time at a state funded university as a web developer and besides the great insurance they offered, it was a pretty annoying experience. We usually we’d sit down with teachers or researchers to develop custom web applications, but every once and a while we’d sit down with deans or [...]

I needed a way to easily log all email being sent from my websites so I devised this solution where I just have to bcc the emails to a single email address and they get placed in a database.
First, add a forwarder in cPanel. Enter a super secret address to forward. [...]

I learned something new this past week: how to use Microsoft Virtual PC to test Internet Explorer. If you’ve been a web developer for some time then you know that it’s hard to get multiple versions of IE running on the same Windows computer. My solution for this has been to keep [...]

I read this great post today that shows how to automatically backup cPanel with PHP and a cron job and FTP the backup to a remote host. The guy that wrote this recommends that you keep the file on the server you want to backup, but I have like 50 cPanel sites and so [...]

If you’ve messed around with symfony at all you undoubtedly have seen or gon through the Askeet tutorial. Like many developers, the Askeet tutorial was how I dove into symfony and really appreciated how in depth it was. However, Askeet really doesn’t reflect symfony’s current code base and isn’t as useful for new [...]

Since WordPress doesn't support rss feeds for pages out of the box and I needed it, I decided to write this plugin to satisfy my need for now. Like the title says, this is quick and dirty, but it gets the job done. The next version of this plugin will be an RSS 2 [...]

I take security pretty seriously because I've had about a handful of sites hacked on my watch (luckily none of it was code that I'd written). Over the years I've gotten used to programming with security in mind and there are a few PHP 'nevers' that I don't do any more.
A few days ago [...]

If you use WordPress for a lot of sites, installing it with SVN is really the way to go. I've been switching over all of my blogs to use SVN since it makes updating sooooo much easier. In fact, updating WordPress used to be my biggest gripe about the program, and now I [...]

If you're a web developer or designer, chances are you've come in contact with the Linux operating system - most likely at the web server level. My first experience with Linux was in 1998 when I worked at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where our sys admins built web servers using this cool open source [...]