Google hijacking 404 error pages
Posted on February 26, 2008 by Ben Cecka
It was interesting to see some action on the Google Toolbar taking over the standard 404 error page on a website. I guess some web developers out there are a little up in arms, but hasn’t Internet Explorer been doing this for years? Any 404 page under 512 bytes is taken over by the browser, […]
Synchronous versus Asynchronous
Posted on January 27, 2008 by Ben Cecka
Playing around with Microsoft Visio for class. Here’s a question I answered as well as a quick diagram.
The transmission of communicative data through any number of mediums can be described as either synchronous or asynchronous. The difference between the two is clear, and is important to recognize when evaluating if requirements are being met by […]
LogMeIn IT Reach
Posted on December 9, 2007 by Ben Cecka
While I’m personally a huge fan of UltraVNC and the RealVNC projects, some video issues with our software made them extremely unstable to the point that I had to find an alternative remote support solution. I looked at a few of them and settled on LogMeIn’s IT Reach.
It’s an impressive product and very affordable, even […]
Backup and Email a MySQL Database
Posted on December 3, 2007 by Ben Cecka
I know there are a hundred and fifty scripts that do this, but I set out to do this within a single Crontab entry. I thought it would be nice to post and save others from having to suffer with combining a bunch of ridiculous scripts for such a simple task.
mysqldump -uusername -ppassword –all-databases | […]
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