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Friday, September 15, 2017

AJAX Request Using Vanilla JavaScript

This is how you create an AJAX request with optional GET parameters in JavaScript. Note that you need to be…

Thursday, September 14, 2017

JavaScript/jQuery Credit Card Validation

This is a collection of JavaScript/jQuery snippets to validate credit card details without requiring any library. Feel free to customise…

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Plugin Spam, Plugin Adoption, Plugin Takeover

A recent Wordfence investigation brought up the fact that one of my plugins, Finance Calculator, has been taken over by…

Monday, April 22, 2024

PHP/MySQL Tutorials

Our PHP/MySQL tutorials and code snippets allow you to extend the power of your site. Our step by step PHP/MySQL…

Monday, April 22, 2024

WordPress Tutorials

Our WordPress tutorials allow you to extend the power of WordPress. Our step by step WordPress tutorials are easy to…

Monday, April 22, 2024

jQuery

Here is a collection of random jQuery code snippets, created during various past projects. Note that they require the jQuery…

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Ultimate .htaccess Guide

This guide was built to serve as a comprehensive resource to using .htaccess. The .htaccess file is a configuration file…

Monday, September 4, 2017

GPG/PGP Tutorial

This documentation provides the basic usage of GPG/PGP, following creation of keys, encryption/decryption, generating files, sending and receiving, uploading to…

Friday, October 16, 2020

Switching from Debian to Ubuntu: Beginner’s Guide

I just switched my development server from Debian to Ubuntu. I decided to use Ubuntu 16.04, nginx 1.10, PHP 7…

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

How to Create/Move an SSL Certificate

Here's how to move an SSL certificate if you've never done it before. You need to reissue the certificate based…

Thursday, June 23, 2022

How to personalize ownCloud | Quick guide

How to personalise ownCloud and remove the references, change the ownCloud logo and edit the header, footer and the slogan.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Branding, Marketing & Corporate Guidelines

Branding Guidelines Checklist Professionals know that a brand reaches its audience through many channels, and consistency of expression plays a…