GD does not work on my server
I did create some graphical stats for my application on www.ntandme.com that required the GD2 library and though it all worked well in the development environment, it did not on the staging server. I got some error messages about missing functions such as imagecreatetruecolor. So, I did dig a bit and could figure out, that the installed version of GD was the package maintained by the Debian team and does lack some functions.
After a while could figure out the solution thanks to a post on the cumu.li blog, which describes how to recompile PHP with a slightly changed configuration. This loads the original GD library instead of the Debian one.
