Clients moving over to Office 365 who had purchased a valid SSL certificate for their mail server still got SSL certificate errors in Outlook and mobile clients. This was despite the mail service was equipped with a valid SSL certificate (not self signed, but issued by a real CA). It turns out here that Outlook […]
When you are using the T3 bootstrap framwork for Joomla! to create a Joomla! responsive template, an easy way to use a custom favicon.ico is to just replace the file templates/t3_bs_blank/favicon.ico with your own. This is fine – until you update the T3 framwork. Then your custom favicon.ico will be overwritten with the default file. […]
In older WordPress installations there was a possibility to handle links. I recently installed a new WordPress 4.9 and I can’t find links (or blogroll). i.e. the Link Manager, anymore. Where is it? From version 3.5 of WordPress, the Links section is not visible anymore if there were no links present or if it is […]
When you are starting your new business you will need an email address. As a small, startup company it can be tempting to go for the quick, cheap and easy solutions. Is it a good idea to use one of the free email services like hotmail, gmail, yahoo etc as your company email? My answer […]
If you need to gain administrator access to a Joomla! 1.5 website where the admin password is not known (forgotten or the original admin is no longer available) you can resolve the situation by adding a new administrator user through MySQL. For this, obviously, you need to now the database credentials. This is how you […]
I was going to develop a Joomla! Component for a client and started to read the documentation on how to build a Joomla! Component. I searched online for a skeleton or framework so I didn’t have to program that from scratch. Googeling it didn’t show up any really good results. Until I realized there are […]
When you switch from one theme to another in WordPress you will discover that all widgets you had is gone. Is there a way to keep the widgets when switching themes? Short answer is – no. The widgets are set specifically for the theme. But it is often quite simple to resolve the situation. After […]
Meltdown and Spectre are two vulnerabilities present in hardware making it potentially possible for programs to steal information, like passwords etc. Meltdown affects only Intel processors while Spectre, which is more complex, also partly affects AMD and ARM based processors. It is not yet known if these vulnerabilities has been exploited by anone. It can […]
I was running an Asterisk server behind NAT without any problems at one location. Due to reoargnization it was moved to a new location and placed behind a pfsense firewall. After a while users reported increasing problems with no sound from the clients. It turned out running a SIP server behind a pfsense can be […]
This is a neat way of centering text in a div. Live demo here. <html> <head> <title>Vertical text center demo</title> </head> <body> <style> .textbox { height: 200px; width: 300px; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; background-color: blue; } .textbox p { height: 100%; display: flex; /* vertically center text */ justify-content: center; align-content: center; […]