There are some cases where you might need a powerful pdf toolkit to use with php. 1and1 does not come with any built in pdf processors or pdf libraries built into php. Here is the process I used to integrate phptk into my 1and1 shared hosting account.
Requirements: 1and1 shared plan that has ssh support
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Adding pdftk to 1and1 shared hosting
Published by November 11th, 2009 in howto, php, programming, software, technology and website. 3 Comments1&1 tightens up Email spam rules
Published by July 31st, 2009 in business, family, friends, linux and technology. 9 CommentsI use 1and1 for my personal and business websites as well as for our clients. We’ve had a client recently that was not receiving emails from one of their colleagues and of course the other company’s IT person said it was our problem. Having been an email administrator for many years I always like to [...]
Tags: 1&1, 1and1, alias, business, business websites, cname record, dns admin, e mail, hosting, mail servers, mx record, mx server, smtp server, speedy response
Adding PECL Uploadprogress to 1&1 shared hosting for Drupal FileField
Published by May 27th, 2009 in drupal, howto, programming, software, technology and website. 17 CommentsDrupal 6.x is the platform we use to build great websites. There are modules FileField and ImageField 3.0 that allow the ability to update a progress meter when uploading a file. This requires installing a PECL extension to PHP called uploadprogress. Here is the process I used to get it working on a 1and1.com hosting [...]
All the good ideas are taken. Lost item locator.
Published by November 6th, 2008 in fortune, ideas and technology. 9 CommentsHad a thought last night as I was searching for my daughters pacifier for more than 15min as she was upstairs crying her little eyes out. “Pink passy” she crys from atop the stairs as I rummage around the kitchen, living room and across every corner, nook and cranny. My thought was, “If there was [...]
Suggest topics for me to write about: Skribit
Published by October 10th, 2008 in blogs, social, software, suggestions and technology. 1 CommentI would love for those who read this blog (all 3 of you lol) to suggest topics for me to blog about. I was alerted to a very kewl service called Skribit that allows people to suggest items. Please post your suggestions there or use the skribit box on the right. Thanks alot!
Yes this has been reviewed multiple times (here) as well as talked about on one of my favorite podcasts Security Now (transcript), but I just had to let the people who look at my blog (all 8 of you lol) how great it is. Here is a picture of it:
This hangs on my keychain and [...]
TextMate is the best editor evaaaaar!
Published by April 9th, 2008 in software and technology. 0 CommentsYeah, so I love TextMate. It is in my opinion one of the greatest text editors. It is easy to use, has great features (see below), makes it easy to program (especially in php) and is all around great. Yeah I know I could expound more, but I’m doing other things so read the features [...]
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Not on facebook and want a way to keep track of some musings and things I do throughout the day? Then check out twitter. My blog lists a daily snapshot of all my tweets, but why not get things immediately!?! You can also get tweets sent to IM or your phone. Schweet!
Apple Makes me Mad!
Published by September 5th, 2007 in apple, hardware, music, technology and video. 0 CommentsOk well jealous with envy is more like it! They are releasing all kinds of new goodies today including the latest iPod Touch which is like an iPhone without the phone. You can even purchase songs straight off of iTunes. Crazy!
I was checking things out here for updates: http://live.gizmodo.com/
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SuSE SLES 10 Migrating from NIS using MigrationTools
Published by August 9th, 2007 in linux, security, software and technology. 0 CommentsSo we were moving a NIS database to LDAP under SUSE SLES 10 using the MigrationTools-47 scripts. It generated the ldif file, but would not import because it was failing on adding groups. This was the error we were getting:
(65) no structural object class provided
All we had to do is change this:
objectClass: posixGroup
objectClass: top
to this:
objectClass: [...]
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