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We all get those requests!  “How quick can I have that?”  “I need that done by yesterday!”  “Are you done yet?”  These are the moments when you need to pull out all your best foo!

Midstride has a great list of tips and tools to help you get that job done ASAP!

From the website:

In this post, I will discuss 5 tips and tools that the php community has provided to speed up development time and improve code quality.
These should help you out if you don’t already know them, but if you do I would like to hear what you use to speed up your development time.

There is something new for everyone in this post!

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PHP websites are extremely common these days.  This is primarily because the technology is free and there is a huge community to support it.

Unfortunately, this also makes it a common target of hackers!  But, the open source community comes to our rescue with a number of tools to help you lock down your PHP based (e.g. Wordpress, Joomla, etc. ) websites.

From the website:

Don’t wait for Google to ban your site to find out you’ve been hacked. You might use several tools to prevent your site from being hacked, but if they fail, you want to know right away - long before Google bans your site for hidden links and malicious scripts. That’s what MonitorHackdFiles does - it is a sentry for your site. It watches your site, and when it detects a file has changed (or been added), it notifies you via email and tells you which file(s) was changed. When other security measures fail, MonitorHackdFiles makes sure you know about it.

Head over to WebChicklet and lock down your website today!

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Everyone who owns a website (Daily Cup of Tech included) wants to have more people visiting.  It is just human nature.  And there are several different reasons for it.  Fame. Fortune.  Personal desire.  Take your pick.

But how many of us really understand even the basics of Internet marketing?

Addedbyes.com has a really nice post about how you should be thinking about Internet marketing and it walks you through the basics to give even a new website owner a solid foundation so that they can move to the next level.  The post may be a bit dated (it’s almost three years old) but it still holds true today.

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Setting up a virtual private server is becoming a critical task for IT personnel.  Nanotux.com wrote a really great article on how to set up a Ubuntu/Lighttpd/PHP/MySQL server and how to also keep it running.

From the website:

Setup your server or VPS, I won’t go into how hardware or how to install Ubuntu in this guide. If you have a VPS, you can select a Linux distribution in the control panel most of the times, and it will be installed for you automatically. In this guide we’ll use Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, since it’s very stable, and has a very large user community, and long term support

Great tutorial to read just to get a general understanding of how the whole process works!

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Penetration testing is a critical skill whenever you have systems connected to the Internet.  Hackertest.net lets you learn some of these skills by trying to hack an online simulation.

From the website:

HackerTest.net is your own online hacker simulation.

With 20 levels that require different skills to get to another step of the game, this new real-life imitation will help you advance your security knowledge.

HackerTest.net will help you improve your JavaScript, PHP, HTML and graphic thinking in a fun way that will entertain any visitor!

Have a spare minute? Log on! Each level will provide you with a new, harder clue to find a way to get to another level.

A game that is both fun and educational!  Give it a try.

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