If you were ever into the position of styling an input type text in making it bigger with the text centered vertically in the input you'll notice that's a major pain in the butt to do it.

Firefox doesn't respect line-height and IE8 has a very strange bug that i'll explain below.

Tried importing today an exported sql from a client and I got this nice error

It's easily fixable by editing the "my.cnf" file and adding the "max_allowed_packet" option

Restart mysql and you're good to go.

Inspired by here's how to do a simple redirect from the www version to the non www version of the website.

Posted it on my blog, but I decided that I should share it here as well, for those of you that need a simple php calendar.

I've encountered this issue recently on quite a few occasions when apache wouldn't restart. Haven't figured out why it happens. I could see there are a lot of semaphores left with:

ipcs -s | grep apache

so i've deleted them with

ipcs -s | grep apache | awk ' { print $2 } ' | xargs ipcrm sem

and it let me restart apache

thanks to http://carlosrivero.com/fix-apache---no-space-left-on-device-couldnt-cre... for the idea.

Add this to your template.php file.

If you ever wondered how to change the page.tpl.php for a custom content type you've found out that by default Drupal 6 doesn't know how to do it.

It's "fixed" easily by adding the following code:

If you've reached this page, you're probably either curios about what other people think about server clusters or you think you need one.

So the question is 'Why would i need a cluster?' . I am going to answer it from our field of work. What we do is manage large server solutions for high traffic websites. Website delivery speed plays an extremely important factor in user experience while navigating a site. No matter how powerful a server is, it will eventually create bottlenecks when being hit by a large number of users. The limit of good behavior depends on several factors such as server power, website optimization, network bandwidth attached to the server, ram amount, etc. Whenever one or more of these factors is abused, the server will start to show slowdowns or even become unreachable.

if you get this error, you need to install the devel package for curl
on centos run:
yum install curl-devel