Archive for August, 2006

PHP: Code snippet to clean user form inputs

I thought you might want something ready to go to clean up your form inputs, here it is:
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Make a Bluetooth headset work with XP SP2

I have bought a Logitech Bluetooth Headset Pro (HS01) and an X-Micro Bluetooth dongle for my PC - AND IT WORKS GREAT!
Getting there was however quite troublesome with a lot of “trial and error”, but once you know the tricks, it takes less than ½ hour to set it up, so I would like to [...]


How To Provide A Web API

In a world where people are making interdependent webservices, API design and maintenance is pretty important. Unfortunately despite rising use and availability of APIs, there are significant problems with the way even big API vendors are deploying and maintaining their APIs.
What are a few simple rules for providing a web API?

Keep it clean and simple
Stick [...]


Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service

Amazon Web Services are readying their latest service called EC2 which will allow users to setup and run servers and computing capacity in the cloud. Users of the service can setup a server instance which is hosted with Amazon, and then access and use the servers they setup just like any other. With EC2 there [...]


Allowing FTP access to files outside the home directory chroot

When we setup an FTP server software (regardless if this is proftpd, vsftpd, etc.) we might face a dilemma: we want to restrict the access that ftp users will have (limited access to files normally in their own home directory) but also we want to allow them access to another folder that is normally in [...]