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A little screencast i made just showing the linux dropbox client off.
Ive recorded another video tutorial, this time on Fedora 9, showing how you can make your own screencasts/video tutorials on linux. I tell you how to (sorta) get your microphone working and use the recordmydesktop program.
I was lucky enough to get chosen to be one of the 25 alpha testers for the linux dropbox client. We were given the choice to download a precomiled .deb, or the source code. Since i use Fedora, i opted for the source code. I attempted to compile it and then i came across some dependency issues.There were 2-3 packages…
I was getting some problems with the latest Ubuntu release (ext3 didn’t agree with ubuntu) so i decided to try another distro. Ive always been an apt-get man so i wanted to try something different. I downoloaded the Fedora 9 DVD and popped it in the drive.
I couldn’t use the GUI installer as there was some conflict with my monitor, so…
The jQuery team are approaching the UI 1.5 release, the library of demos is steadily building up and i personally cannot wait until its fully released 
. One of the “weaker” points of other Javascript User Interfaces and previous releases were the themes for the window borders etc. This has been solved in jQuery UI 1.5 with the theme roller. Its…
The RSS feed has been fixed and the theme is just about done! Its a very simple theme (as CSS/graphics have never been my strong point) but it will look good. More jQuery, PHP and Linux content coming soon!
Im in the process of making/designing a custom wordpress theme for the site. Alot of things went wrong in the upgrade from 2.5 to 2.5.1 so once the new theme is finished, im doing a fresh install of wordpress so it (hopefully) irons out the RSS and posting bugs. Im backing up the database (and ill restore it) so all…
Heres Part 2 of the jQuery AJAX login tutorial. If you haven’t already, i suggest you read part 1 located here.
We are going to start writing the PHP code to process the form. This is fairly basic stuff, using $_POST to get the values from the form, then checking them against pre-assigned values, if they match, then echo approved, if they…
Heyo. This is going to be the first of 4 tutorials on making a jQuery powered AJAX login system with a PHP backend. The series of tutorials will go like so.
Ok then. So we will have a forum with…
Hey guys, just thought i’d post a little interim post (as such). Im in the process of making a 4 part tutorial series on using jQuery’s AJAX. Its a “case study” where i/we will make a basic login form with a PHP backend and then use jQuery to make the login seemless. Eg. you put your username/password in the form…
This post is in reference to the jquery drop down menu tutorial .
Someone emailed me asking if the menu could truely slide in , vertically, not how it is now with the slide on a slight angle ( using jquery’s show / hide ). Its very easy to alter the existing code to make it truely slide.
Instead of using jQuery’s show and hide functions, we…
This video tutorial shows how to make a basic slide in/drop down menu using jQuery. The menu itself stylishly slides in and has transparencies so you can view data behind it.
Sorry for the low sound, i was trying something different with my microphone.
Invision Power Services have announced the development of Invision Power Board 3.0. They promise a new
Features Include
)They say they are adding more integration tools, so…
Im a big Fan of PHP and one day i wanted to make a desktop application that could pull down posts and private messages from one of my forums. I didn’t want to learn a whole new language, just code the small application so i dismissed C, and looked at Python. I saw there was PyGTK, saw i wondered if…
So far you should have read/watched:
So you know the very basics of jQuery, and multiple ways to select the HTML element that you want to manipulate. In this tutorial i’ll show you how to manipulate that element after you have selected it; changing the contents, changing the HTML and…
Every been linked to one of those pages? You know, the ones you can’t escape.. Javascript boxes start popping out of nowhere and then you hear him.. Rick Astley.. telling you how he’s feeling about you.. You’ve been Rick Rolled.
Rick Rolling has taken off as late and links are popping up all over forums, websites and IRC. What links? You say.…
Dropbox is the next big thing. Its an application that lets you sync multiple computers. For example if you have a laptop and a Desktop and want to keep some files across the two machines synchronized then this is the tool for you. The great thing is that its multiple Operating System compatible. There are currently clients for Windows and…
The popular discussion board phpbb2 is being pulled/development dropped. Security patches and support will be given until January 2009 and you will be able to download the software from the website until the 1st of Ocbober 2008 . phpBB2 has been plagued by a large number of vulnerabilities, a significant number of them were through user submitted modifications.
phpBB 3 started…
In this tutorial i’ll go over some of the frequently used Selectors and show you how to use them. Most of jQuery’s manipulations revolve around selectors, so it’s a vital skill to know.
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So.. we want to select the first td. We do this by first selecting all the td tags and then use :first to select the first td. Using jQuery’s great…
The 8th version of Ubuntu has now been released! Notable inclusions are..
Its interesting to see that they’ve given some
of their older applications an overhaul. It now includes the Brasero CD burning utility which replaces Serpentine. They’ve also included the GTK front-end bit-torrent client Transmission and added a new VNC viewer called Vinagre. If…
Heres a quick tutorial on how to stream internet radio, in particular shoutcast, through VLC media player. Most people stream through Windows Media Player or Winamp, but if you like Open Source applications like me, heres how you do it.
File -> Open Network Stream
Select the HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS box and in the form, enter the URL of the shoutcast server, with the port. In…
In nearly all of my PHP tutorials you’ll see me using the secure function to sanitise incoming user data from things like forms, and $_GETs . Its a small function, which no doubt alot of you already have, but here it is anyway.
function secure($string) {
$string = strip_tags($string);
$string = htmlspecialchars($string);
$string = trim($string);
$string = stripslashes($string);
$string = mysql_real_escape_string($string);…
There are alot of remotely hosted systems out nowadays, Zetaboards, SMF for Free and the series of IPB 1.3.1s. If you want to edit the looks of your board you need to use Javascript since you can’t access the source PHP files. You can work your way around using getElementById and the likes, or you can use jQuery. Here are…
Heres a tutorial on how to use the apt-get package management system in Debian and its derivitives such as Ubuntu and Knoppix. I will cover command line use of apt-get, the aptitude program and the Synaptic Package Manager. I wrote all of this myself, feel free to link to here but do not copy and paste it.
Debian uses apt-get package…
This isn’t Yet Another PHP Security blog post, like you see on all the other websites. This is aimed at people who run existing software such as SMF, Joomla and Wordpress.
Some people using pre-made software think they are immune to hacking attempts. 4 days ago, there was a vulnerability found in the latest version of the Coppermine Gallery software, after…
Heres a quick video tutorial i made, you’ll learn the basics of jQuery such as selecting elements as well as usage of the slide effect. Feel free to ask any questions
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