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    Use FURL to Retrieve Website Headers

    It's important to know what headers your website and its files are communicating. For example, if your website is providing a 404 status, you're probably streaking toward your computer to fix the problem. Using the FURL library, you may retrieve website headers from the...

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    Package Your Firefox Extension into an XPI

    Yesterday I detailed the file/folder structure of a Firefox extension. Once you have your extension ready for testing, you need to package everything together into an XPI file. Luckily there's a quick and easy way to do so. chrome.manifest Review Remember that the XPI build...

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    Create a GitHub Merge Batch File

    Before I start updating my local clone of the MooTools More or Core libraries, I need to update to the most current version on GitHub. Call me lazy, but I'm tired of typing the commands lines into msysgit all the time. I've created a...

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    Read PDF and Word DOC Files Using PHP

    One of my customers has an insane amount of PDF and Microsoft Word DOC files on their website. It's core to their online services so it's not as though they're garbage files up on the server. My customer wanted their website's search engine (Sphider)...

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    Retrieve DNS Records with Dig

    One of the most difficult parts of my job is managing DNS settings. It's not that DNS is a particularly difficult thing to manage, but it's somewhat foreign to me because they don't teach it in school and there are huge consequences for messing things...

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    Download A File and wget

    Using the cURL package isn't the only way to download a file. You can also use the wget command to download any URL. The Bash Script I'm guessing that wget and cURL aren't the only ways to download a file, but these are two easy ways...

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    Download A File Using Cygwin and cURL

    I'm starting to like using Cygwin more and more. Command line scripting allows me to get the information without all of the hassle. Why should I open Firefox, type in the address, deal with the ads, and click 5 links before I...

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    WHOIS Searches Using whois

    I used to do all of my WHOIS searches at a really popular website that I wont name here. I had to stop using the site because they decided to make you pay to use their tools. Next up was GoDaddy, who doesn't charge...