An IDE is a term used to describe the main tool in a developers arsenal. The program you will spend most of your time in if your a developer. There are quite a few on the market and I’ve spent some time in quite a number. They all have there pros and cons and here [...]
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I use a hell of a lot of little apps here and there to help me work. As a result, I thought I would share a few of these with you. Some of these are aimed at back end and PHP developers while others are just damn useful… for everyone. Hell, I know of no [...]
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A simple one today, one simple way to slightly optimise you Joomla installation. You will notice when using YSlow and other optimisation tools that it suggests including less javascript files. Http requests to the same server can only return one file at a time and only one request can be made to the same server [...]
Read moreI have found a tool that loslessly reduces image sizes, and best of all, it can be scheduled via a cronjob as it is a Linux based solution.
Read moreI have found a resource that I have found hugely useful in improving my web development skills. Harvard University released a series of incredibly insightful lectures entitled, Computer Science E75, and I have been sitting these in order to expand my knowledge of web development. The course covers a number of topics including HTTP, PHP, [...]
Read moreThis tutorial outlines how to install a basic Plesk installation and was done on a fresh Cent OS 5 Rackspace Cloud Server build. I believe that Plesk is free for one domain. Should you wish to host more domains or provide reseller account you will have to purchase a copy of the software from Plesk’s [...]
Read moreThis is a tutorial you can use to help you install WHM/cPanel on your server.cPanel is not free and you will have to purchase a license from the cPanel site (http://www.cpanel.net/), however, they do offer a trial license, to allow you to evaluate the product which will last you 15 days. Before continuing this tutorial, head [...]
Read moreThis post features a number of useful Linux and Unix commands that users may find useful in there day to day administration of web servers. Be it a website, an intranet or a media server your creating and managing, all of these posts you should find useful. If you have any questions or feedback, please [...]
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