Archive for July, 2010

It’s very rare that I setup FTP servers on our production environments and always forget parts of the configuration, so figured I would list it here. Active and Passive FTP There are two types of modes active and passive FTP, using normal or passive FTP, a client initiates a session by sending a request to […]

Recently I started migrating an old server, which had skip-networking within my.cnf, which is not a dynamic option and requires you to restart the mysql server. I typically rsync the source code and static data to a new machine. Configure the webserver with the relevant vhosts and change the database connection details to point to […]


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I have been a developer for roughly 10 years and have worked with an extensive range of technologies. Whilst working for relatively small companies, I have worked with all aspects of the development life cycle, which has given me a broad and in-depth experience.