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

Preloading Images

UPDATE: Now that all modern browsers (that is, everything except IE8 and older) have support for multiple background images via CSS3, that is my preferred method. It’s detailed by Jeff Starr in his post, Better Image Preloading with CSS3. * * * * I’ve been looking for a good way to preload images for rollovers, […]

Ian Dunn

WordPress Developer

NTP Service Doesn’t Start Serving Until It Stablizes

How to Build a Template in CMS Made Simple While Maintaining Sanity

Find largest directories on a Linux box

Passing dates and times between PHP and MySQL

Accessing cforms Data Directly

Find recently modified files in Linux

Preloading Images