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Send E-Mail messages with PHP using Authenticated SMTP A brief tutorial explaining how to send e-mail messages with PHP using authenticated SMTP: PHPMailer, SendMail, Fake SendMail and other methods

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The ability to programmatically send e-mail messages with PHP is a feature used by a large amount of opensource software written using the most famous scripting language on the web: …

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Microsoft MVP: Everything You Need to Know A list of (great) things you can actually do since the day you get the Microsoft MVP award e-mail

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If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that your mailbox has been recently visited by an e-mail from Microsoft congratulating you for being awarded as a Microsoft® Most Valuable …

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ASP.NET MVC - Controller Subfolder Routing using Attribute Routes How to create a Route to a Controller that is inside a Subfolder in a ASP.NET MVC Application Project using the MVC 5 Attribute Routing Feature

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As you might already know if you're using ASP.NET MVC, routing is how ASP.NET MVC matches a URI to an Action within a Controller. In the unlikely case you don't know …

ASP.NET MVC - Controller Subfolder Routing using Attribute Routes How to create a Route to a Controller that is inside a Subfolder in a ASP.NET MVC Application Project using the MVC 5 Attribute Routing Feature Read More
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How to safely upgrade from MariaDB 10.x to 10.3 without losing data A quick tutorial explaining how to perform a seamless upgrade from a previous version of MariaDB 10 to MariaDB 10.3 keeping all the existing databases intact

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It has been a while since MariaDB 10.3 has been out, bringing its stunning pack of changes, improvements and new features - most notably, System-versioned tables and Sequences. If you found this …

How to safely upgrade from MariaDB 10.x to 10.3 without losing data A quick tutorial explaining how to perform a seamless upgrade from a previous version of MariaDB 10 to MariaDB 10.3 keeping all the existing databases intact Read More
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Backup MySQL or MariaDB Server with a single Command-Line using mysqldump How to perform a full backup of a MySQL or MariaDB Server instance on a Windows or Linux machine with single command-line

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If you like playing with MySQL or MariaDB servers, you most likely know that both of these great open-source DBMS come with mysqldump, a neat command-line utility that can be used to …

Backup MySQL or MariaDB Server with a single Command-Line using mysqldump How to perform a full backup of a MySQL or MariaDB Server instance on a Windows or Linux machine with single command-line Read More
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WordPress - Error establishing a database connection repeatedly and intermittently (MySQL / MariaDB) - Fix What to do if you're randomly and repeatedly getting the "Error establishing a database connection" with your WordPress installation using MySQL or MariaDB

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The "Error establishing a database connection" WordPress error is a rather common one. You can either get it upon each request, meaning that you WordPress site is entirely down, or intermittently (randomly …

WordPress - Error establishing a database connection repeatedly and intermittently (MySQL / MariaDB) - Fix What to do if you're randomly and repeatedly getting the "Error establishing a database connection" with your WordPress installation using MySQL or MariaDB Read More
Coding / Linux / Operating Systems

CentOS / Linux - make: g++: Command not found - How to fix How to fix this common Linux terminal error by installing GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection

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If you've stumbled upon this post it probably means that you were trying to compile a C++ program using the linux make  terminal command and ran into the following error: > make: …

CentOS / Linux - make: g++: Command not found - How to fix How to fix this common Linux terminal error by installing GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection Read More
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How to clear Google Chrome Redirect Cache for a single URL A short tutorial explaining how to clear Chrome's sticky memory for redirects without clearing all your browsing data

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As you most likely known since you found this post, Google Chrome - just like most other browsers - implements the 301 redirect caching, meaning that it will often locally cache …

How to clear Google Chrome Redirect Cache for a single URL A short tutorial explaining how to clear Chrome's sticky memory for redirects without clearing all your browsing data Read More
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ASP.NET C# - How to convert Office files to PDF using SyncFusion File Formats & Essential Studio A great third-party alternative to Office.Interop to programmatically create PDF out of MS Office Word, Excel and/or Powerpoint files

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A few months ago I've written a post here explaining how to programmatically convert MS Word DOC and DOCX files to PDF in ASP.NET C# using the Microsoft Office primary interop …

ASP.NET C# - How to convert Office files to PDF using SyncFusion File Formats & Essential Studio A great third-party alternative to Office.Interop to programmatically create PDF out of MS Office Word, Excel and/or Powerpoint files Read More