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After migrating from Media Temple DV 3.5 to Media Temple DV 4.0, I found my email box filling up with notices of cron errors. Sometimes, the error was “-: wget: command not found” or other times “-: php: command not found”. Commands worked perfectly fine if run in SSH but not through the Plesk Cron [...]

Freelance Confidential, from Rockable Press, is aimed at providing the hard numbers on the biggest issues of freelancing. And, advice for freelancers, by freelancers on how to improve and grow their business. Where do you find clients? How much do you charge? How do you raise your rates? Is social media really worth it? and [...]

This interesting graphic of Web Designer demographic data was published by Tech King. Click on the graphic to go to the original post which lists the data souces.

One of my clients has a rather popular sports site on based on WordPress. The site is up-to-date and running on DV server. A few weeks ago malicious code starting to appear on the site setting off warnings from anti-virus programs that monitor websites. Sometimes, entire files are uploaded that contain malicious scripts. Most of [...]

Server-generated emails on websites requiring registration or verification, often do get not through Hotmail and Yahoo Mail spam filters. Hotmail requires a valid SPF record which is easy to implement. And, Microsoft will whitelist your domain for Hotmail if you request it. Yahoo filed a patent for the DomainKeys concept in 2003. They still use [...]

I recently got the nasty “XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location” error instead of RSS feed on two client WordPress sites. First, I tried the Fx-RSS-Feed plugin. No luck! it identified several hundred WordPress and theme files with unnecessary whitespace. Most of the files were write-protected. Way too [...]