Welcome, to another web development blog!
Just a quick note to say hello and welcome to my shiny new blog! I’m still working out a few bugs (ahem, features!) with my template, as well as getting a load of content added to the site and generally polished so that it’s a website that actually proves I do do some web development and design every now and again!
So for the next couple of days few weeks, please enjoy the bits that are here, but be aware that I’ll be updating the site with more content this week and fixing bits of the new design.
Increase max_connections in MySQL
This is a really quick “howto” guide based on experience in the office, where we had pages and queries that were unable to run properly, purely because of the number of queries that we were trying to pass to MySQL at once.
10 Things you can do with Robots.txt for SEO
Robots.txt is a very useful and underutilised tool that allows web designers to control how their site handles spiders from search engines. The majority of search engine spiders take robots.txt and will parse the instructions prior to indexing a website.
Using robots.txt you can ensure that spiders only index certain parts of your website, and you can further specify as to which spiders are allowed to do so, and what pages they index.
Prevent Image Hotlinking via .htaccess
Hotlinking to images on another domain is something that is frowned upon. Leeching other peoples bandwidth isn’t a polite thing to do, so if you find someone hotlinking images from your site, what can you do?
Well, you can edit your .htaccess file and have a little fun with them!
How to List Files in a Directory
I put this block of code together for some freelance work I’ve recently completed, where the client needed to be able to have dynamic control of content and assign these pieces of content to various files in the website. The easiest way to do this, especially for future expansion, was to use the following code to generate a list of all files in the directory.
