For a long time I’ve hosted my sites on a MediaTemple VPS or Virtual Private Server. For a pricey $50 a month you get a pretty nice package and 24/7 support but recently I was turned onto Slicehost. They offer great plans for very reasonable prices and great support too (always important).

They also offer a choice of operating systems, not forcing me to use my now least favourite operating system: centOS. I chose ubuntu and following on from last weeks post about project management, I will talk about how to install and configure a subversion server running on Ubuntu 8.0.4.

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Managing projects is hard. I’ve come to learn this over the last year. [poor] Project management is also without a doubt one of the factors why Hippstr has been delayed for almost a year now. So I’m going to share with you a few of the tools, services and practices that have helped improve my productivity and my team’s.

Those who are around me often will know I never shut up about how great basecamp is. And it really is.

“Basecamp is the smarter, easier, more elegant way to collaborate on your internal and client projects.”
37signals

Basecamp is a really simple and easy-to-use project management system. With great to-do management, a forum like “messages” section and milestones (There’s more but this is the important sutff). Read More …

There is a subtle difference between the <b>, <strong>, <i> and <em> html tags: they are commonly misused when styling text as bold or italic.

The <b> and <i> tags are presentation elements and are to be used where there is no “semantic” meaning, for example in a site footer. The <strong> and <em> tags are used where emphasis is to be put on a word and there is semantic meaning, as above with “subtle”.

Semantic: “relating to meaning in language or logic.”
New Oxford American Dictionary

Why does this matter? The correct use of these tags help computers understand language. Currently,

“… web pages are designed to be read by people, not machines.”
Wikipedia

By correctly using these tags we help computers understand in what context we meant something we wrote. The most important use of these tags is for accessibility, em and strong tags are read with emphasis on a screen reader while i and b are read as normal text; since they’re designed for presentation use only.