TechKnack

I love APIs. They make using web services so much easier.
I’ve been developing an IRC bot as a side project, and three of its functions require the use of web services. It can shorten urls using http://is.gd/, search google, and validate web pages using the W3C’s HTML and CSS validators. Fortunately, and [...]

Google recently announced and released their browser, Google Chrome. And, as should be expected, everyone is talking about it (QuirksMode, Dave Woods, and LifeHacker, amongst others). Unfortunately, it’s not yet available for linux. There’s promise that the developers are working on a linux port, and there’s a nice little textbox you can [...]

I started using OpenDNS a few weeks ago. One thing I immediately noticed was that OpenDNS was hijacking my address-bar-initiated google searches. You know that feature in FireFox that, if the words entered in the address bar don’t match a website, it takes you to the google search for those keywords? Seems [...]

Hosting a website on your own server gives you ultimate control over all the details of how that site works. Running your domain’s mail on your own server gives you the same amount of control. Unfortunately, setting up postfix (Ubuntu server edition’s default mail server) is not nearly as simple as setting up [...]

A server, in the basic sense, is a computer which runs a program (also called a server or server application) that provides a service to other computers. This could include an HTTP (or web) server, a DNS name server, a mail server, a VNC server, an SSH server, an FTP server — and many, [...]