Very good points in the following article: Why Google Will Never Be Good At Enterprise Search | SocialComputingMagazine.com. I like to think of the difference as: Publisher-centric search with influence given to the reader/subscriber for internet search. Data and hierarchy centered search for enterprise search.
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Password protecting a website
Password protecting a website using .htaccess – this method pretty much requires shell access, but most web hosts have a web control panel interface to do this work. It should be noted that this isn’t the most fool-proof method of protecting your data, and a configuration error can inadvertently open up your directory to the [...]
Indispensable and portable free stuff
I was listening listening to one of the old Geek Brief podcasts, and was reminded of a website with portable versions of applications that are very useful when supporting computers that aren’t your own, or running from several different PCs. Of particular note are the Development apps available. Notepad++ is an excellent text editor based [...]
SmartFTP is no longer free
Considering my web hosts do not provide shell access, a solid FTP client was invaluable for me in making updates and changing websites, since windows “web-based” ftp client is less useful than their console client for me (web-based does not work consistently with directories above user home). I thought I had found a solid FTP [...]
.htaccess redirect guide
My favorite tip: Changed file extension? This example is perfect if you’ve decided to switch to .php from .html pages. It will look for any .html page and redirect it to .php (ie http://www.example.com/yourpage.html and redirect it to http://www.example.com/yourpage.php). Now, be careful with this, it does mean any html page. I did this on one [...]
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