Fred was born and raised in South Africa during the complicated “apartheid” years. He completed school at the age of 17, joined the South African Airforce and qualified as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer at the tender age of 21.
After 10 years of service received an honourable discharge and a career change to IT. Learned the trade in the days of DOS 5.1 and NOVELL Netware. Became proficient in desktop support including the different versions of DOS up to the finale version 6, Windows and various Financial Accounting packages.
Left South Africa for Northern Ireland in 2002 to start a new career in Health Care and as a hobby, web application development.
XMS Systems is the result of this new hobby.
Problem with not being able to refresh some cookies while having mod_expire set in your htaccess file?
Posted in: GeneralHow to avoid the dreaded Internal Server Error (500) when trying to generate a PDF file using TCPDF with table tags and 1000's of rows of data?
Posted in: Development and Change LogGeneric SSL site seal that will certify your site SSL certificate is functioning while displaying real-time certification information to your users.
Posted in: XMS Systems SecurityPhishing scam to get hold of your PayPal information.
Posted in: Scam AlertScam that got past our email scanners this morning.
The South African Reserve Bank
370 Helen Joseph Street Pretoria 0002
CLARIFICATION FOR PAYMENT
Attention: Fund Beneficiary.
Beware of getdom.net trying to steal your money for registering a domain with them.
Posted in: Scam AlertShort discussion and example of using css and media queries to render a data table responsive.
Posted in: Development and Change LogBasic idea behind how to make a dropdown list that are filterable and searchable
Posted in: Development and Change LogThe invalidemail.info is Running Out of Time for Search Engine Submission. Luckily Exelwebs blocks this kind of emails...
Posted in: Scam AlertThis bugged me for some time. I needed to get reviews but just could not figure out how to send users to the Google review form.
Posted in: Search Engine OptimisationHere is the answer to a question that has been asked 1000's of times online. "Why is some image uploaded from my mobile device the right way up and others are not?". This article also includes a way to easily fix this problem.
Posted in: Image manipulationWhy do I need a site map and how do I create a sitemap that google and other search engines can access? This entry also discusses how to let google know you have submitted a sitemap and invite them to come and visit your website.
Posted in: Search Engine OptimisationWhat is the best solution for user experience? To only have an email address on your contact us page or to use a Contact Form?
Posted in: Front EndMy twitter card configuration is 100% accurate but the image is not showing.
Posted in: Search Engine OptimisationA short summary of the "hidden" SEO features integrated into XMS Systems
Posted in: Search Engine OptimisationGoogle announced that they will be penalising websites displaying intrusive pop-ups or interstatilals on mobile websites
Posted in: Search Engine OptimisationWhat is the optimal size for images on the internet and how to easily resize them.
Posted in: GeneralHow to recognise Spam, Scam or Phishing email.
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