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There is an amazing array of awesome open source software available for a wide variety of applications. Choosing the right product is extremely important. Be sure you have a clear definition of what you are trying to do first. If you are trying to… more »

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."Anatole France more »

This is a great explanation of how to do SSL certificates. http://dertompson.com/index.php/2007/02/10/requiring-a-client-certificate/ more »

Fast AJAX To speed up an AJAX page load, particularly with a toolkit such as dojo, you can do the following: Set the cache headers on the server for 'far-future' dates on toolkit files, and any other files that don't change often. Use the director… more »

Here are some tips for cleaning up after your site/server has been hacked. Look at the files that don't belong - find a common pattern. Most have one. Use grep -rl pattern * to find all the affected files. If you pipe the output to a file, you ca… more »