Archive for December, 2009

How to serve files with mod rewrite

Have you ever wondered how some websites seem to serve files in a way that looks like folders instead of actual file names? For instance this website. To see this blog post you are linked to the URL http://adambecker.info/development/how-to-serve-files-with-mod-rewrite/ but in actuality the web server is running a PHP file and serving it as if [...]

Mac OS X: end and home keys

I have been using Macs over five years and it has always bothered me that the home and end keys didn’t do what they do on every other computer. For whatever reason, in Mac OS X, when you hit the home or end key your view of the text document is moved to the beginning [...]