Ubuntu 9.04 Server – Custom 404 Pages

One thing I’ve always found gave a nice little touch to any web site was to have custom error pages.  Something a little friendlier than a standard 404 error can prevent a user from leaving your website due to frustration and confusion.  They may think the whole domain was down and close the tab and [...]

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Email Obfuscation

As we all know spam is a plague that has spread to every far corner of the Internet.  Spam-bots collect our email addresses in many ways, but in my opinion the most likely way they’ll get your email address is from scraping webpages such as forums, where you email may be listed.  So when you’re [...]

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Emacs – Disable Loading Help On Backspace Key

Another roadblock in my journey to master Emacs was that I’d constantly have the help menu popping up on me.  It took me a while to figure out what was causing it as I type rather quickly so by the time I saw it come up I didn’t know what button caused it.  Turns out [...]

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