Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (SP1 RC1), installation problem

Posted December 13, 2007 * Comments(0)

Everyone that is using Microsoft Vista has undoubtfully noticed several properties which have a negative effect on prouctivity. Since I work with producing websites Vista’s slooow filemanagement has probably been the most irritating of them all. Therefore, SP1 is very welcome update, even if it’s only a Vista SP1 RC1 (i.e. more or less final will some risk of smaller bugs). Read more »

Better URL for images with mod_rewrite

Posted October 16, 2007 * Comments(0)

Apache is a popular server platform which among other things includes an URL rewriting function called mod_rewrite. This function is usually used to rewrite URL:s for documents in order to make them more SEO-friendly.

mod_rewrite is applicable for images

Actually its pretty obvious that mod_rewrite works for images as well. Among other things, this technique is used for protection against hotlinking (preventing images being shown on external domains). So, why not use mod_rewrite for better looking URL?

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