Christopher Hacia

Force HTTPS Redirect from HTTP for SSL

With the web transforming nearly every day, and the need for privacy and security growing higher and higher, there is a huge demand on web developers now a days, to provide even if the site is purely informational; A SSL certificate for some level of encryption on the input/output of the data from their sites, services, other. With that demand comes the need to drive your traffic to the right…

Windows 3.x Nostalgia through a browser

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Who doesn’t love getting vague but menacing messages from applications where the Authors of said application fail to offer support beyond a forum no one actually monitors. Well I don’t which leads me to more often than I’d like to admit being frustrated. More so when it’s an app that I’ve grown to like and it just fails due to either updating your operating system or the app itself. That said I…

Google Chrome clear/reset DNS Cache

It didn’t occur to me until recently, and its less likely anyone will really ever have a need for clearing the DNS Cache in Google Chrome. But if your like me and you just recently updated nameservers for your domain (maybe even more then once in a 24 hour period). Then you might notice despite all your attempts to clear the history, cookies, and all else. Even restarting your browser. Or even…

Mac / OS X Keyboard Symbols

I’ve been using Mac / Apple products for going on 4 years. And to this day.. I still never remember the random symbols they use to define shortcuts, and which is which physical key on the keyboard. So I am making myself a cheat sheet, and a cheat sheet for all of you to use. Enjoy

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Well kids.. its time to finally break away from GoDaddy. I have been saying it for a while. But today I get off the preverbal pot. I will no longer be renewing my domains through godaddy, Ill just be transferring them out to the new registrar as they near…

A programmers day to day summed up in two images..

This speaks so many volumes of truth between the following two images..

Found on a T-Shirt design…

em, px, pt, percent. What is the difference ? CSS offers a number of different units for expressing length and sometimes its confusing to relate them with each other, Here’s a tiny bit of explanation.

Em’s (em) : - Scalable unit that is used in web…