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What you need to know about character encodings ...

Character encodings tend to be an oft-misunderstood area of web development. Many people - both novices and experienced developers alike - tend to adopt a lax approach to encodings. Presuming that the majority of people will be using their pages in English anyway so it's not worth investing time in ...    more

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Mod_Security Tuning for Apache

Most web servers log traffic in a form that useful for marketing analyses and hit counting, but are usually unconcerned with what kind of traffic is actually hitting your web applications. The traffic that actually hits your applications is usually contained in the POST requests, which pretty much render your ...    more

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Linux Networking Tools

Linux rocks. I think everyone out there knows that at this stage. Everyone that is, except the 99.6% of the population that don't actually use it on a day-to-day basis. Recently Linux's up-and-coming status has been threatened by the resurgence of Mac-olytes, no doubt looking for something to plug their ...    more

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