http://www.danami.com Managed Web Services Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:34:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1. Say NO to shared hosting if doing E-commerce With shared web hosting, permissions are set up to restrict users from your directories and files. However, this is a relatively low level of security compared to that of managed dedicated servers where you and only you have access to your machine ... http://www.danami.com/blog/2007/12/26/how-to-keep-your-website-secure/ Exaile is a media player aiming to be similar to KDE's AmaroK, but for GTK+. It incorporates many of the cool things from AmaroK (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via the wikipedia, last.fm support, optional iPod support ... http://www.danami.com/blog/2007/12/26/how-to-install-exaile-on-ubuntu-edgy/ I would highly recommend this Firefox plugin to any web developer. I have never seen such a comprehensive list of features in a validation plug-in before! HTML validator An accessibility validator A spelling validator A broken links validator The ability to take screenshots with different browsers to see what your web pages really look like (27 ... http://www.danami.com/blog/2007/12/26/total-validator-firefox-plugin/ Here is a list of my ten favorite desktop Linux applications. 1. Basket Note Pads Basket Note Pads is a multi-purpose note-taking application that allows you to keep all your notes in one centralized place (think Linux version of Microsoft OneNote). Basket Note Pads is a KDE application but its worth installing ... http://www.danami.com/blog/2007/11/24/my-ten-favorite-linux-applications/