Micah Carrick

Here are some commands I use ALL THE TIME when working on a web server through SSH. I'll try to update it as I think of other stuff that comes in handy.
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Just thought I would help out anybody who has this same problem. When using a custom error page to hand 404 errors, you need to make sure you use the local path to the script and not a full URL, otherwise the server needs to use a redirect to get to the page. This will cause a message from Google Webmaster Tools such as "We've detected that your server returns a status of 200 (found successfully) for pages that don't exist. "
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I have been running Ubuntu for a few months and have seldom--if ever--needed Windows. However, I've recently needed to test some software on both Windows and Fedora Linux. So, I had to add a Windows XP installation and a Fedora Core 6 installation to my current Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" system. Here's some install notes.
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I haven't tried it out yet but I've stumbled across an AVR microcontroller IDE for Linux. It's called KontrollerLab and looks promising. When I searched around about a year ago I couldn't find anything and have often considered starting a project myself. But I like what I'm seeing here. It's called KontrollerLab.
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If you've ever used Anjuta or MonoDevelop, you may have noticed the nice docking widgets they use. This is very common and useful for IDEs (Integrated Development Environments). Many people ask how they can get dockable windows in their own GTK+ applications. Well, since there is no built-in widget for this in GTK+, you can use the same libraries that Anjuta and MonoDevelop are using: gdl.
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As a web developer and programmer, I prefer to use a powerful text editor over WYSIWYG software. I write code using HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Ruby, etc. The standard text editor that comes with GNOME is much more powerful than you may know. This article is written to illustrate how you can configure gedit for use as a powerful, stable web developer's text editor.
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I see people asking around in the forums quite often about which tools to use for web development in Linux. Here are some tools and instructions for setting up your gnome-based Linux distributions to handle all your web development needs.

I won't be discussing any commercial software here. Just the open-source (free) stuff.
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One of my most valuable tools as a web developer working in Linux, is Firefox. I think I can safely assume that you're familiar with the Firefox web browser if you're reading this post. However, you may not be familiar with some of the tools to assist you in created your web pages.
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Anjuta is a nice programming IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Gnome. I use it for C and GTK+ programming. Today I installed version 2.2.1 on my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn distro running AMD64. This isn't an extensive installation guide, but instead just a couple of notes on possible hang ups.
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I spent the weekend moving this website from it's Joomla-based article format to this Wordpress-based blog format. The reasons for this include SEO, aesthetics, and ease of use. It will be much easier for me to keep up to date with information and source code I want to share if it's in a more casual, blog-like environment.

Over the next couple weeks I will be ironing out all the problems that have occured in formatting due to the conversion and hopefully import the comments from the previous site.