Gabriel Harper's Blog

I’m taking the plunge with vBSEO on Fury-Tech Forums. $149 for vBSEO is almost twice as expensive as a leased vBulletin license, so like many vBulletin owners I’m tentative to say the least. To make things worse, they want $117 to remove vBSEO branding from your forum. On the bright side of things, I should have a reliable SEO solution for vBulletin – where Jelsoft is really lacking in my opinion.

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More fun in the Webmaster world of updates. Jelsoft today announced vBulletin 3.6.10, including various backported bugfixes from 3.7.0 but primarily to fix a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in vBulletin 3.6.9.

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I just read about the new version of Cpanel / WHM that is supposed to use much less memory on Virtual Private Servers (VPS). Aside from the obvious benefit of freeing up resources and improving performance and capacity, cPanel also points out the benefits of being more eco-friendly than standard cPanel releases. I’m not sure how efficiently cPanel VPS Optimized translates into less energy consumption, but I’ll just take their word for it. This is exciting news for me, because I run many domains hosted on multiple VPS with cPanel/WHM.

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After upgrading to PHP 5.2.5 and Apache 2.6.9 using the new easyapache3 scripts (WHM > Software > Apache Update) I was still left without Zend Optimizer. WHM and easyapache3 installed Zend Optimizer (located in /usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.0/) but after some mucking about I made the mistake of running /scripts/installzendopt – previously used to install Zend Optimizer with a step-by-step installer.

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Admins running cPanel w/ Horde should pay special attention to the security update released by cPanel. An arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability was discovered in the Horde webmail app and a patch is included in cPanel builds 11.18.2+ (11.19.2+ for EDGE).

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I’ve developed a strange habit over the years of obsessively pressing “CTRL-A, CTRL-C” whenever I’m typing – be it MS Word or WordPress. My own little personal “undo”. Well, I’ve had this problem with my mouse lately where it loves to register a double click when clicked once. For some reason this makes Firefox upset, and as I’m typing in a textarea (such as this one), it will occassionally turn the textarea completely white. The only way to recover is to refresh the page, and in most cases I lose whatever I was typing. Ironically enough, as I was wrapping up this post, guess what happened? I lost everything. Strange habits can be useful.

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This guide explains how to configure a new IMAP email account in MS Outlook 2002.

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This post contains slides and details of the PHP presentation I did for the MESDA Webmasters Group (MaineWUG) in May 2004.

Learn why PHP is one of the most popular web programming languages today. From evaluating the basics of a PHP web page to discussing multi-tier applications in PHP, we will cover topics of interest for both the beginner and the professional.

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