The security of session handling in PHP can easily be enhanced through the use of a few configuration settings and the addition of an SSL certificate. Whilst this topic has been covered numerous times before it still bears mentioning with a large number of PHP sites and servers having not ...

There are a number of things you can do to make a server more secure whilst protecting your hosted entities and their users. Here are just three of the many things I do on every new server I commission. I hasten to add that these are not necessarily the most ...

If you want to install and run the latest version of Scala and/or Netbeans then you cannot simply install it from your distributions repositories or pre-built packages. It may sound easy enough to just grab Netbeans from their site and install it, but most Linux distributions no longer have ...

In part one of the tutorial you built a bot with Node.js that could connect to the Google Talk network and announce its presence to other users with a status message. The bot was also configured to listen for subscription requests from other users and automatically accept them.

Now ...

Whilst Node.js is primarily aimed at creating non-blocking servers it can also be used to host simple web pages such as homepages and blogs.

We are going to be using a simple web framework for Node.js called Express (http://expressjs.com), which can be installed via the Node ...

With Node.js yet to reach a major release you may be wondering if it is mature enough for production environments and live projects. Whilst it is also true, in the past, that the Node.js creators have warned off people with mission critical objectives it is now in a ...

Jabber was originally invented by Jeremie Miller in 1998 who was sick of using many different closed protocol instant messenger clients. To begin fixing this situation he created jabberd as an open source server in 1999 and by May of the next year version 1.0 was released.

Over the ...