Hoults Yard is not the only supplier of such space…there are more
suppliers of deskspace including http://space.carrotmedialtd.com.
hedgehoglab.com offering desk space

Find the size of a directory
du -sh /dir
How to remove files older than 60 days
find * -mtime +60 -exec rm -R {} \;

Check if your server has GD support
http://www.tutorialadvisor.com/tutorials_view/Test_GD_support_on_your_server-1209.html
This script told me that I didn’t have GD support.
The following command worked for me.
apt-get install php5-gd
Installing Inocube
http://www.debiantutorials.net/installing-ioncube/
http://www.crucialp.com/resources/tutorials/server-administration/how-to-howto-ioncube-loader.php
Install Curl
apt-get install php5-curl
Install Zend Optimizer
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_apache2_ssl_php5_zendoptimizer_ioncubeloader
Mod_rewrite
This was not enabled. I couldn’t find anything useful online about installing this but thankfully there was an option in Webmin to enable the module.
Next
Testing using the [...]

The problem was with the login system that I built for an application. Everything was working fine  initially and suddenly for some unknown reason IE 8 decided it didn’t like something and wouldn’t allow people to log in.
After trawling through the CI forums and changing the ci_session to cisession and updating the session length in [...]

http://www.wrike.com/pricing.jsp
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/tutorials/
http://www.zoho.com/projects/zohoprojects-pricing.html
http://whodo.es/plans
After a quick search on project management tools here’s some that I like the look of.
http://whodo.es/plans
This looks like a slimline version of Active Collab. Simple too use but maybe a little to simple.
I’ve just found a new offering in thymer.com
Free to signup to the basic plan, and simple enough to get up and running with [...]

http://www.flisterz.com/2008/08/09/wordpress-show-latest-comments-for-each-post-on-main-page/
http://net.tutsplus.com/news/unraveling-the-secrets-of-wordpress-commentsphp-file/#comment-template-tags

XHTML2 is dead as of July 2009. Chances are as a web developer you’ve been using XHTML for sometime, making use of stricter validation rules: lowercase tags, double quoted attributes, self-closing tags etc. Here’s a list of 9 rules:
http://personalweb.about.com/od/basichtml/a/409xhtml.htm
If you’re like me you probably implement web standards but maybe you’re a bit hazy on the [...]

Disable phpMyAdmin :
chmod 000 /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin
enable:
chmod 755 /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin
Rootkits
Here’s an step by step guide to checking your server for rootkits:
http://www.howtoforge.com/scan_linux_for_rootkits
After running chkrootkit I also ran rootkit hunter by using this:
apt-get install rkhunter
rkhunter
To run a check type: rkhunter -c
There’s a server security checklist at:
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/unix_configuration_guidelines.html
20 Linux System Monitoring Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-linux-monitoring-tools.html

This week I’ve had a couple of questions about the use of correct English.
As I looking at Web Accessibility I came across the Plain English Campaign and this very amusing page about confusing communications.
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/examples/before_and_after.html
Enquiry or inquiry?
Today I’ve caused debate in the office about the difference between enquiry and inquiry. Apparently, there’s not much difference just [...]

Elliot is a designer, an illustrator, a speaker, and an author.
I’ve been seeing him and his work more and more recently. He has written design tuts in .NET magazine. I’ve even bought his book ‘Sexy Web Design’.
I like his work, and he uses Wordpress, which is really cool.
http://elliotjaystocks.com/about/