Tomas Bagdanavicius has created a fast, themeable, cross-browser CSS-based Drop-Down Menu Framework that only uses Javascript for IE6.
NTP Service Doesn’t Start Serving Until It Stablizes
I just spent an hour trying to figure out why the NTP service I installed wasn’t working, and then I came across this slightly important little fact: Your internal workstation computers will not be able to use the server as a synchronisation source until the LOCAL(0) clock has stable time. This may take up to 15 […]
How to Build a Template in CMS Made Simple While Maintaining Sanity
I’m not a big fan of CMS Made Simple, but I end up doing a lot of sites in it by request. It’s taken me awhile, but I think I’ve found a way to structure templates that doesn’t make me want to club baby seals out of frustration. First, what I don’t like about it. […]
Find largest directories on a Linux box
These commands will return the largest 10 directories on a Linux box.
du -k / | sort -n | tail -20
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Passing dates and times between PHP and MySQL
Richard Lord wrote a good article explaining the various ways of handling dates and times with PHP and MySQL.
Accessing cforms Data Directly
I’m using the cforms plugin on one site at the client’s request, and I needed to access some of the form’s data. Their API didn’t have what I needed, so I thought I’d just query the database directly. But when I looked at the database I didn’t see any tables for it. I thought that […]
Find recently modified files in Linux
This will list all the files on a Linux system that were modified in the past 5 days
find /path/to/start/at -mtime -5 -print