Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

Installing Chromium on Fedora

How to install Chromium on Fedora 11, both via YUM and by manually downloading and installing the required files.

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Upgrading GoDaddy Hosting to PHP 5.x from PHP 4.3.11

How to configure your GoDaddy linux hosting plan and .htaccess file to run your *.php pages on PHP 5.2.5.

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Fixed: USB drive unusable, unformattable, and reporting 0 bytes capacity

Fixing a USB flash drive that pops up “Please insert a disk into drive X:.” when the drive letter is clicked, reports 0 bytes capacity in the properties, and cannot be formatted in Windows.

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Troubleshooting Xbox Live connection problems and Open NAT issues

Resolve Xbox 360 NAT issues by port forwarding or configuring your router to use bridged mode.

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Interrupting a script.aculo.us event

A client wanted me to implement a drop down contact form that was triggered when the cursor hovered over a button in the site’s navigation. This was no problem, and I delivered some code using script.aculo.us‘s blind effect. A few hours later, the client contacted me and said that as he moved his cursor around [...]

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Defeating WordPress comment spam

How to reduce WordPress comment spam by implementing a challenge-response system that uses JavaScript to hide the path to the form processing script.

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Correcting for line descent in Firefox

A fix for the CSS space below images that are wrapped in anchor tags.

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Centering the thumbnails in Plogger

This post illustrates a method of centering the thumbnails in the album view of the PHP image gallery Plogger. The method automatically adjusts for thumbnails of varying widths and pages containing less than a full row of images. This method is implemented in the Plogger 3 theme: Air, but it should work in any theme [...]

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Optimizing the Syntax in the WordPress Title Tag

How to rearrange the elements of the default WordPress title tag to improve SEO.

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How to Configure NameVirtualHost in XAMPP’s Apache Server

How to configure Apache’s VirtualHost feature to allow you to run multiple web sites on a single machine.

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