Linux And Friends

You will find  many articles on WordPress, Dokuwiki and other content management systems on this blog. It also contain good web design tips.  This post consolidates all the articles related to content management systems, web designing, and web hosting in one place. Check them out !

Imgopt is a bash script that makes use of different image optimization command line tools to drastically reduce the size of your JPEG and PNG images with minimal loss in quality.

Today while I was upgrading my WordPress installation to version 2.9.1, the upgrade script exited prematurely showing a fatal error as follows : Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2516315 bytes) in wp-includes/http.php on line 1370 There is an easy fix for this fatal error. The WordPress fix is [...]

If you send me a mail using the contact form on this site, the mail is not handled by my web hosting provider Bluehost. Rather, Google handles all my mail. Using Google Apps Standard Edition allows you to map certain Google services like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Spreadsheet, and Google Calendar to your own domain.

The other day, I came across a website tool which tells you whether a particular website is inaccessible for everyone  or only you can’t access it. The website consists of a web page with a text field where you enter the web address you need to check and click on the “Or just me?” link. [...]

On April 1st, Google hosted leaders of the IT industry to discuss the best practices for improving data center efficiency. The following is a video of a tour of one of Google’s data centers. In the video Google explains the guidelines it followed to improve its data center efficiency. Watch the Google data center facility [...]

This article describes the steps required to enable mod_rewrite in XAMPP.