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Adding pdftk to 1and1 shared hosting

Published by jeremy November 11th, 2009 in howto, php, programming, software, technology and website. 3 Comments

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 PECL Uploadprogress to 1&1 shared hosting for Drupal FileField

Published by jeremy May 27th, 2009 in drupal, howto, programming, software, technology and website. 17 Comments

Drupal 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 [...]

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When is Daylight Savings? and 10 Things To Do With that Extra Hour

Published by jeremy October 30th, 2008 in life, links and website. 11 Comments

Chris Harrison twittered about a site called When is Daylight Savings? I thought I would pass along the info since we all forget at some time about when the new daylight savings time is. (In case you don’t want to go the site it is this Sun Nov. 2nd, 2008 at 3am in the morning [...]