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Link to an iFrame with Joomla

It’s very simple to link to an iFrame with Joomla by using Wrapper and the menu item. Below are the steps to follow in order to link to an iFrame through the Joomla administrator: 1. fire up you admin 2. … Read More

Increase Number of Joomla Home Page Items

Joomla installs with a default of only 3 to 4 items on the home page (depending on your column configuration). I found it was somewhat complicated to find the administrative screen allowing you to increase the number of content items … Read More

Exclude Directory from Tar

In order to exclude, skip, ignore a directory from a TAR archive do the following: tar –exclude=”dir/excluded_dir_no_slash” -czvf tarball.tgz dir/ To exclude, skip, ignore multiple directories with TAR: tar –exclude=”dir/excluded_dir_no_slash” –exclude=”dir/excluded_dir_no_slash_2″ -czvf tarball.tgz dir/ This answer in the question from … Read More

A List of Available APIs

I’m going to keep a running list of APIs and their associated developer Web sites for some of the major internet companies out there today. I may need to go to these one day in building new tools for my … Read More

Find PHP Version From Command Line

Simple task, simple command: php -v For further reading, here’s the PHP documentation on command line usage: http://www.php.net/features.commandline

An Article on Frameworks

These days, “framework” is quite a buzzword in web development. With JavaScript frameworks like the Yahoo User Interface library, jQuery, and Prototype getting a lot of attention and web application frameworks like Rails and Django getting even more, it seems … Read More

PHP Open Source Dominance

Despite the buzz around sexy new frameworks like Rails and Django, PHP is more dominant than ever. Read More: http://www.ohloh.net/articles/php_eats_rails

Facebook Hammers MySpace on Almost All Key Features

When you think of social networks you probably think of MySpace. But recently, Facebook has been gaining popularity – since it opened up beyond college users, it has enjoyed a flood of new users, boosted further by the launch of … Read More

Fedora Core 5 and CAPTCHA Images

Ran in to a couple problems working with CAPTCHAS on Fedora Core 5. The problem was simple. PHP-GD was not installed. So, just run: yum install php-gd This should give you the correct package to be up and running with … Read More

Next Generation of WiFi and NetGear

The recent certification of the next generation of WiFi by WiFi Alliance known now as “Draft-N” got me to thinking about the stock performance of NetGear. This stock has had a good run since I bought it back in August. … Read More