Some very important shortcuts that will help you to control Putty a little bit better. Canceling a command for example is very important. Therefore CTRL + Z is a very important shortcut that you should remember.

Shortcuts:

Ctlr + A – go to the beginning of line

Ctrl + E – go to the end of line

Ctrl + W – delete a word

Alt + f – Move forward

Alt + B – move backwords

Alt + BackSpace – Delete backward from cursor

down arrow – browser command history backwords

up arrow – browse command history upwards

Ctrl + r – Recall command

Ctrl + z – Suspend/ Stop the command

Search the history backwards

Ctrl + l – clear the screen

If you are moving or copying a site to another directory on your server then it might happen that you can no longer access your site.

A 403 error message will popup. How can that happen, you copied the exact same files?!

The reason is simple, once you copy the files they no longer have execute permission. To display your web files, a file requires execute permission!

Apache 403 forbidden fix:

chmod a+x would give all (user group and others) execute permission

Example:

If you have a directory like /here/abc/ then you got to run this query:

chmod -R a+x /here/abc/

I hope that solves your 403 forbidden problem!

Having a TOS (Terms of Usage) is a mandatory nowadays.

Here are some useful information and free templates you can use for your own site.
Actually, it’s a TOS for the UK, but you can easily make it fit your own country.

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/
http://books.elliottback.com/legal-notice/

Windows 7 will allow you to take and save screenshots in a couple seconds through a built-in tool called “Snipping Tool”. Win7 runs a lot faster and I was able to open more than 200 firefox tabs without noticing any “lag”. This is truly a sign that this might improve your daily blogging life.

AeroPeek will help you to switch between windows and applications and Aero Snap will help you to compare content in two different browser windows. Multitouch-panning might not be used commonly right now, but might also change your daily blogging life as soon as you get a fancy touchscreen monitor.

Want to find out more about Windows 7? http://windows7themes.net

One of the best AJAX tutorials that helped me to learn the basics:

Ajax Tutorial Basics

Seriously after working through this tutorial I understood a lot more. I highly recommend to buy a book too, because this is a very complex topic but also a very important thing that might help you to boost your career.

Go AJAX Go!

Statistics can come in handy. Especially web developers have to know how common Safari or Google Chrome is nowadays.

Here is the full report.