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IIS - How to setup the web.config file to send HTTP Security Headers with your web site (and score an A on securityheaders.io)
Coding / Cyber Security / Web

What are the penalties for violating HIPAA? The risks of ignoring the obligations required by the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for companies and web sites

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Healthcare entities collect a lot of sensitive data from their patients. The Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) set the guidelines of how patient information should be protected. HIPAA …

What are the penalties for violating HIPAA? The risks of ignoring the obligations required by the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for companies and web sites Read More
SQL Server - Recuperare il Product Key da una installazione esistente
Applications / Coding / Servers & Services / Software / SQL / Windows

MS SQL Server - How to Change the Default TCP 1433 Port The required steps to configure your Microsoft SQL Server instance to listen on a non-standard TCP/IP port

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As you probably know, the default communication port used by SQL Server for TCP / IP mode connections is TCP 1433. This simple - but far from trivial - configuration …

MS SQL Server - How to Change the Default TCP 1433 Port The required steps to configure your Microsoft SQL Server instance to listen on a non-standard TCP/IP port Read More
Launching your Social Media Marketing Strategy
Coding

Launching your Social Media Marketing Strategy Some useful tips and guidelines to avoid the common pitfalls and develop a successful engagement plan

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A social media strategy is more than just a Facebook page or Twitter feed. When run properly, social media is a powerful engine of engaging with the customer and generating …

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Install Postfix 3 on Linux CentOS for sending e-mail over SMTP, SMTPS and STARTTLS
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Install Postfix 3 on Linux CentOS for sending e-mail over SMTP, SMTPS and STARTTLS A brief tutorial explaining how to install and configure Postfix 3 on a Linux CentOS 7.x machine to send e-mail using SMTP (TCP 25), SMTPS (TCP 465) and/or STARTTLS (TCP 587)

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Few days ago I wrote a post about how to install and configure sSMTP, a simple and free alternative to Postfix and Sendmail which can be used to send e-mail through …

Install Postfix 3 on Linux CentOS for sending e-mail over SMTP, SMTPS and STARTTLS A brief tutorial explaining how to install and configure Postfix 3 on a Linux CentOS 7.x machine to send e-mail using SMTP (TCP 25), SMTPS (TCP 465) and/or STARTTLS (TCP 587) Read More
PHP - How to disable error log, display errors and error reporting programmatically
Coding / Linux / Operating Systems / PHP / Servers & Services / Web

How to install PHP 7 on Linux CentOS A useful guide to understand how to securely install and setup PHP 7.1, PHP 7.2 and/or other PHP builds on a Linux CentOS machine

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Since we recently posted an article about downgrading from PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.1 on CentOS, we thought that it could be useful to add a post explaining how to …

How to install PHP 7 on Linux CentOS A useful guide to understand how to securely install and setup PHP 7.1, PHP 7.2 and/or other PHP builds on a Linux CentOS machine Read More
How to downgrade PHP version on Linux CentOS
Coding / Linux / Operating Systems / PHP / Servers & Services / Web

How to downgrade PHP version on Linux CentOS How to securely roll-back to a previous version and/or build of PHP - for example, from PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.1 - in a Linux CentOS machine

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PHP 7.2 release introduced many breaking changes that could prevent some of your application from working properly. Among the many backward-incompatible improvements, perhaps the most  crippling one is what they called …

How to downgrade PHP version on Linux CentOS How to securely roll-back to a previous version and/or build of PHP - for example, from PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.1 - in a Linux CentOS machine Read More
SQL - The ntext data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable - How to Fix
Coding / SQL

SQL - The ntext data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable - How to Fix How to fix the "The ntext data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable" error affecting MS SQL Server and other DBMS based on T-SQL

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If you've stumbled upon this post you're probably dealing with a SQL / T-SQL query which is either doing: a DISTINCT on a column having ntext data type. a JOIN with multiple …

SQL - The ntext data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable - How to Fix How to fix the "The ntext data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable" error affecting MS SQL Server and other DBMS based on T-SQL Read More
Wordpress - How to hide a Category from Front page, Archives, Feeds, Searches and Category Widget
Coding / PHP / SEO & Marketing / Web

WordPress - How to hide a Category from Front page, Archives, Feeds, Searches and Category Widget A great plugin to exclude a category from your WordPress Web Site... and a neat PHP script to deal with the Category Widget as well

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When dealing with a WordPress Web Site you might want to hide or exclude one or more Categories without actually deleting them: in other words, to prevent them from being …

WordPress - How to hide a Category from Front page, Archives, Feeds, Searches and Category Widget A great plugin to exclude a category from your WordPress Web Site... and a neat PHP script to deal with the Category Widget as well Read More
The Importance of Coding and Your Child's Future
Coding

The Importance of Coding and Your Child's Future Learning the basics of software development and dealing with computer languages can be the best way to succed in this challenging world

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It should come as no surprise that the number of jobs that require coding skills continues to increase every year. As we become more and more tech-reliant, our need for …

The Importance of Coding and Your Child's Future Learning the basics of software development and dealing with computer languages can be the best way to succed in this challenging world Read More