Sometimes temporary files are not removed from plesk. These files may include old backups or just random files. Plesk stores it's temporary files here:

/var/lib/psa/

While working on an internal project I noticed that the php file() function was not able to open a file and dump the contents into a variable. After moving the file to a different directory the PHP script was able to read the file. In addition to this side affect, accessing files through

I first noticed some images not displaying on a web site that were correctly linked to. Looking at the error_log, I saw entries such as:

Unlike Windiws, you can not determine when a file was created. Instead, you can only determine three things:

 To retrieve the value of the selected item in a drop down box on a page using java script:

document.form1.cboObject[document.form.cboObject.selectedIndex].value

If you control multiple domains and/or have multiple alias' then in order to track visitors across them, you must modify the Google Analytics tracking code:

I've been using VMWare for the last couple of years. What I really liked about it was that when you ran the vmware-config.pl script, it would automatically set up interfaces for the virtual machine to interact with the host OS. What I didn't like was that the guest OS was so slow. I heard about Parallels, and from what I've seen, it's a very slick and had a great feature that allowed you to switch to seamless mode. In this mode, you could run applications with the illusion that you were running the application within the guest OS, in my case Linux.

While working at my last job I've come across this a lot. Windows simply stops connecting to the internet when you try to open IE (Internet Explorer) or Fire Fox. This really isn't an issue anymore since most people have broadband internet.

Under the Control Panel:

The other day while I was modifying a client's site I saw that his contact form was in PERL. Recently I just got a Mac Book Pro. I've set up XAMPP and Eclipse on it to do my PHP programming, but I didn't count on getting into any PERL. As a challenge I thought it would be fun to do some PERL programming.