Web design and development by Jonathan Dean

I first went looking for a solution as to why connecting to FTP on my new CentOS 5.3 server was very slow. I found this post that had the answer: http://www.electrictoolbox.com/directory-listing-slow-ftp-server-centos/
The gist of it is to edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config and add the following:
IPTABLES_MODULES=”ip_conntrack_ftp”
However, the big lesson here is that if you reload your iptables now you [...]

Apache already comes pre-installed on OS X but PHP is not enabled by default. To enable PHP we need to edit our Apache config file by opening the Terminal and typing sudo nano /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf and hitting enter (put in your admin password when it asks.) Type Control+W to bring up the search option and type [...]

I was pretty disappointed after my Verizon Fios install to learn that the Actiontec M1424WR modem/router combo only goes up to a G wifi signal. I’ve been using my Time Capsule with an N signal for a while and it’s great. I was even more disappointed to find that I wasn’t simply able to extend [...]

If you’re running an Apache server there’s no need to hard code your links to force https/http or write server-side code. A few simple rewrite rules will allow you to redirect your secure pages to https and your non-secure pages back to http.

A while back I posted this article about friendly URLs in PHP and Apache. Today I’d like to update that a little to not only show another method but also to enhance it a bit. When we’re done we’ll have search engine friendly URLs that look like the ones that Blogger uses.
Why? Because search engines [...]

I had some trouble today with washed out images when using Save for Web in Photoshop and thought I should share. In the past I’ve been able to solve this by unchecking the Convert to sRGB option but that didn’t cut it this time. In case you aren’t familiar, you can find that option by [...]

(Picture of our wedding)

We took a great week-long vacation at Myrtle Beach recently. I would highly recommend anyone unfamiliar with this concept of vacation (as I was) to take one. You get to sit around and do… well, nothing. I couldn’t believe the positive effect it had on my attitude toward life. But then I came home and [...]

We finally moved into our new house this weekend. I would send pictures if we had actually unpacked by now but we haven’t. At least not my stuff anyway. All is well now except for the fact that Lowes is less than a mile away and there are more things I want for the house [...]

(picture of me as an awesome baby)