OSI: Layer 5 – Session
The session layer is the fifth layer (layer 5) of the seven-layer OSI model. The session layer provides the mechanism for the opening, closing, and managing of sessions between applications. …
JavaScript Special Characters
Just about every programming language has a list of special characters. These are characters that have a special purpose. JavaScript is no different. In JavaScript, you can add special characters …
Creating a Sitemap XML File for your Website
Sitemaps allow a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a …
Centering Content with a Full Width Header and Footer
In this tutorial, we are going to cover how to create a full width header and footer for your web pages. We are also going to go over how to …
How to Host Your Own DNS and/or Webserver
On a routine basis, I come across many questions on forums related to people wanting to know how to host a web server on their private network. While there is …
How to Automatically Redirect From HTTP to HTTPS
The topic of automatically redirecting users that access your website from a non-secure connection (HTTP) to a secure connection (HTTPS) has been around for quite some time. If you search …
SQL Date Functions Overview
SQL Date functions will vary from platform to platform. It is important to know what format of the date and/or time is stored in the database so that you can …
MySQL DATE_FORMAT Function
The MySQL DATE_FORMAT function Formats the date value according to the format string. Syntax Format Description %a Abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat) %b Abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec) %c Month, numeric (0..12) …
Windows Server 2012 Minimum Requirements
In this article, we will take a look at the minimum, recommended, and suggested requirements for installing and maintaining Windows Server 2012. Like previous versions, Microsoft publishes the bare minimum …
Windows Server 2008 R2 – 32 bit Available?
If you have reached this page in hopes to find an answer to whether Windows Server 2008 R2 has a 32bit addition available, you have definitely come to the right …
Implementing a Password Policy
While deploying an Active Directory (AD) password policy is technically easy, most of the time, the proper planning and design are not considered. Therefore, the expected results of the policy …
Do Not Use Recursion vs Disable Recursion
There are various situations where you would want to prevent your DNS server from performing a recursive query. Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, there are two settings …