Due to the increase in processing power available, the use of SSL has become more widespread. This is obviously a good thing, especially with UK ISPs spying on ( and annoyingly, replaying ) web traffic recently, however this can be a showstopper when trying to debug a misbehaving application. To get around this, and …

I’ve decided to try out Netbeans, as it had been recommended to me as a good IDE for PHP development, but while attempting to emerge it under Gentoo, I was greeted by this error: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable. The problem seemed to be that I was using sudo to run the …

In my job as a Web Application developer, occasionally designers send me images to place on web sites, which is usually fairly simple. However sometimes I receive images from print-orientated designers, who use Adobe Photoshop to create images in CMYK format. These images are great for printing, however they don’t work …