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Theme, Sublime, Build, IISExpress

So phase one of the new theme is done. You’re currently looking at a totally bare-bones theme (unless you’re looking back at this post in the future) which I’ll be building from in the coming weeks. To get this far most of the work has been in the project setup which you can find on [...]

Adobe AIR MIME type for IIS

Another quick post for future reference, the IIS MIME type needed for Adobe AIR .air files: extension: .air mime-type: application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip

FileZilla passive mode on Windows Server 2003

*UPDATE* – I always felt this was not the right way to do things but it did work. The right way is to simply add the filezilla server.exe program to a firewall exception as described here This took me a while to figure out so posting for any future server setups I have to do. [...]

Simple batch file backup

I’ve just setup a very simple backup system that works over FTP. Windows only I’m afraid but i’m sure the equivilent isn’t too hard on other platforms. Tools Firstly I used two very simple free/open source command line tools: SSLFTP – simple FTP tool that works in passive mode or over secure connections. and 7-zip [...]

Shout about GOOD service

I recently involved myself in the sharing of frustrations about shocking customer service from banks and telecoms providers in the UK with Aral. Today I had some troubles with one of our customer’s emails apparently not being received, we use MDaemon mail server. I hit a brick wall and called the guys at ZenSoftware who [...]

Problems sending mails to AOL and similar

AOL, the wonderful company that they are, require any mail to be sent to them to be from a server with a valid reverse DNS lookup (ptr) record. If you’re finding emails bouncing back from AOL (and some others) make sure your mail server’s domain name server has an an appropriate ptr record setup. This [...]

Multiple domains (virtual hosts) in apache

This information is everywhere and is by no means anything special. But as a recent convert to apache from IIS I need somewhere to put this as reference: To setup multiple hosts in apache, add the following into http.conf <VirtualHost 10.1.2.3> DocumentRoot /www/vhost1 ServerName www.my-dom.com </VirtualHost> Full details over on apache.org Genius huh? I’ve also [...]