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Handling a Keyword Search with PHP/MySQL (MATCH/AGAINST MySQL Function)

For the longest time I used the MySQL ‘LIKE’ statement style for searching by keywords, which it is probably the most reliable and fastest option. But today I’m going to talk about another option you have to create a more effective keyword search and get the result from MySQL order by keywords relevance. For this […]

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How to Avoid Having Sensitive Data Exposed

There are few reasons why you have to have sensitive information inside a class, but the one in the top of these reasons is because many hosting services does not allow you to have access to your root folder or even to your php.ini file. This is a big problem specially if you have a […]

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Installing Apache, PHP and MySQL in Ubuntu 12.10

Preparing your new Ubuntu 12.10 computer for web developing can be intimidating, especially if you are not used to Ubuntu or Linux environment, as I am. There’s a lot of help from the community but sometimes they are kind of rough when someone like me ask a noob question, but hey!… at least they answer […]

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The Best Free Design Software in the Web.

Start designing can be a little hassle, specially for students. Of course, the cost for an Art certifications are way over prized in the US. For example, an Associate Degree in Full Sail, Florida – Maybe the best option if you want to have hands on into new technology, can cost $80,000.00. If you don’t […]

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Viewing Netflix in Ubuntu 12.10

I thought this was not possible but I found this tutorial in TechRepublic, was an answer from heaven. Basically is telling you that you need to do it through Wine, a virtual machine, but it runs like a native application. Please follow the link and like this tutorial http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/how-to-get-netflix-streaming-on-ubuntu-1210/4019 Have a great movie night! Raphie

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Giving Privileges to Directory /var/www to Filezilla – Ubuntu 12.10

Hi, good day everyone! Today I was finally setting up my Filezilla in my full Ubuntu 12.10 server, and obviously things are a bit different in this OS. For example, even though I installed Filezilla in my computer this does not means that Filezilla has privileges to any folder, either in the root. For Windows […]

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Setting Up ImageMagick 6.7.4.6 Q16 in Windows Vista x64 SP2 with IIS7 and PHP 5.3 Imagick Extension

Wow, I’ve been trying to do this for almost a week and a half and finally I got it. I Google it!, StackOver it and nothing gave me to possibilities to have my localhost Windows Vista IIS7 with the latest ImageMagick Q16 and PHP extension working properly. But know I have my IIS7 PHP running […]

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Unable to Upgrade Windows Media Player Win7 or Sever 2008 R2

This has nothing to do with coding but it’s something that made me mad when I run into it. I was trying to process my digital copies of my kids movies for Disney and I ran into that problem. When I used the link provided by Disney took me to a Microsoft web page with an […]

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XMLHttpRequest error in IE8 and 9

Don’t you hate when everything is going smoothly with your website, you haven’t done anything to it, it is the same since forever and suddenly…. Your ajax is not working in Internet Explorer. Suddenly customers start calling that they cannot log in, or documents are not displaying; A complete mess!!. Well it happens to me […]

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The PHP Curly Braces Error In Dreamweaver CS3

Hi co-designers… Few days ago I was having a strange error when attempting to write a code in PHP for Dreamweaver CS3 (9)  for Windows, in my case Windows XP. This is the operating system they use in my workplace, yes I know, is a shame but I had to deal with it. The problem […]