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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 …
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 Read More
Compliance for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) starts at the network segmentation. Well, segmentation in this context refers to instituting controls aimed at enhanced data security. …
PCI-DSS Compliance and Network Segmentation Some useful guidelines explaining how to meet the PCI-DSS requirements regarding Network Segmentation and its key concepts: CHD, CDE, Out-of-Scope Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
Maintaining a WordPress website is a tough task in itself let apart the confusion of choosing which plug-ins to use for a hassle free and optimum experience. Since it was …
Best WordPress Plugins to Compress Images, JS and CSS An updated list of compression-bases plugins that will make your WordPress website load quicker Read MoreToday I received an e-mail from Richard of Comparitech (thank you Richard, by the way!) telling me that there was an odd issue with our blog's social sharing feature. I …
WordPress - How to Escape & Strip HTML tags from the Post Title A tutorial explaining how to properly use the get_the_title() and the_title_attribute() WordPress functions to properly format the Post Entry Title Read More