Recently, I’ve changed the way I’ve been creating websites in Drupal. Instead of trying to make everything as easily as possible for clients to add content to their websites I’m actually more inclined to think that this can make creating sites more complicated. I know there are a plethora of Drupal modules available for almost [...]

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 [...]