Komodo Edit, based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, offers sophisticated support for all major scripting languages, including in-depth autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, syntax coloring and syntax checking, Vi emulation, Emacs key bindings.

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Use WampServer to run PHP, MySQL and Apache from within Windows.  So now you can test and develop your website projects offline instead of having to do it all live on your main server. 

Great development tool if you don’t always have reliable internet access!

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If you would like me to help you design and develop your own website then please use the Email link at the top of this page, include as much information about your website idea as possible. 

I develop mainly with PHP and MySQL running on Apache.

This service is the equivalent of me giving you anyname.urbanskaters.co.uk or anyname.urbanskaters.com (the anyname part is called the subdomain, the urbanskaters part is the second level domain, the .co.uk and .com are the top level domains), but because the second level domain here is co and the top level domain is .cc , when you put co and .cc together it looks very similar to co.uk (but remember co.uk is a top level domain in itself, whereas co.cc combines a second level and top level.  Hence urbanskaters.co.cc looks no different to urbanskaters.co.uk.  Still not making sense? Try typing just co.uk into your browsers address bar.  Then co.cc , to see what happens. 

The .co.cc domain is not an official hierarchy; it is merely a standard domain like any other and is used for a free URL redirection service. - Wikipedia

You initially get 2 FREE “Sub” domains but for a small donation of $10 (about £5) you get a further 100.  You must either point each subdomain at an existing website (Forwarding) or edit the DNS to point to your own server.  Failing to do either within 48hrs will lose you your subdomain.  Just keep that in mind!

Thanks to Dave for recommending the co.cc service.

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Don’t be fooled by the the unlimited usage packages either as they come with small print.  It’s called fair usage policy, so please read that carefully as I found recently that if I go over a certain download limit, they reduce my bandwidth.  Which is reduced further if I continue to use up more bandwidth than they REALLY want me to.  Unlimited, yeah right!

One more thing that I’m terribly unhappy with is the rubbish support that Vodafone offer.  I recently noticed that whenever I use the express cards preloaded software to manage my connection that my PC gradually slows down to a complete halt.  On further investigation I noticed that the Vodafone software was opening hundreds and hundreds of ports (to the localhost, so no real danger I guess) called DOOM. 

So I email them and ask what this DOOM process is and why it scans from port 1000 right up to and beyond port 7000.  I get a reply saying “We don’t know…”.  WHAT???? So I call them up and get told the same old garbage.  So let me get this straight.  Vodafone release a mobile broadband express card which when plugged in executes a programme that starts scanning through thousands of ports on your local machine.  Yet they don’t know why or what it is. 

How frustrating!  So anyway, I phone back and tell them to stop messing about and give me a straight answer.  I then get told, “We don’t know exactly why, but the senior techs tell us that it’s something to do with monitoring”.  Oh bloody hell, forget this.  If Vodafone don’t even know what it is, what it’s doing or why they chose to call it DOOM then I’m stumped for an answer to.

Below is a screenshot taken during a Netstat run through command prompt.  It clearly shows the ports being scanned by the DOOM process.  It’s scary to think that a company can get away with not knowing how their own product works, let alone calling a network process DOOM! 

 I’ve read reports all over the Internet about poor connectivity and bandwidth issues with various mobile broadband services.  While I think that broadband services on Smartphones is a great idea, I’m still not convinced it works for laptops connecting via mobile express cards etc.

1. Google XML Sitemaps
2. All-in-one SEO Pack (Search Engine Optimisation for WordPress)
3. WordPress.com Stats (Generate visitor stats for your blog)
4. Vipers Video Quick tags (embed video from popular video portals)
5. WordBook (facebook plugin)
6. Adsense manager
7. Events Calender
8. wp-db backup (Easy backup of your WordPress database)
9. Snapshots for wordpress.org (Enhances WordPress)
10. wp-cache (speeds up your blog by caching pages)

Feel free to send in your top 5-10 WordPress plugins and maybe I’ll generate a page just for this list

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol.

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Unlike Gumtree and CraigsList, myTubeStop.com is committed to bringing you a classified ads website exclusively for Londoners with a more accurate search engine (no more searching in North London and getting South London ads back). 

myTubeStop.com: a classified ads website just for Londoners!
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