Misc Tutorials

Replace Windows Shell

If you’re like me and like the bash interface on linux then here is a really quick and easy way to replace the windows shell with a linux based bash interface. http://stackoverflow.com/a/4144747/1145818

January 20th, 2012

Enabling and Disabling WordPress Widget Areas

There seem to be alot of blogs around the net that answer half this question, so while I remember how I did it, I thought I would put pen to paper (so to speak). The Problem I’m building a wordpress … Continue reading →

December 17th, 2011

How to align content of a div to the bottom with css?

I sweated over this for an hour or so and couldn’t find anything like it by Googling … so here it is! Objective: A div that emulates a table row and all data and fields in that row to be … Continue reading →

December 15th, 2011

JQuery Slider to Converting Stone to Kgs

A neat little JQuery slider to convert Kgs -> Stone -> Lbs The Code:- HTML | copy code |? 0102<meta charset="utf-8">03<html> 04<head>05 06<link type="text/css" href="css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" /> 07 08<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script>09 10<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.min.js"></script>11<style>12 #demo-frame > div.demo { padding: 10px !important; width: 300px;};13</style>14 15<script>16$(function() {17 $( "#slider" ).slider({18 value:100,19 … Continue reading →

December 15th, 2011

DNS Propagation

… and How to test DNS propagation before it’s happened I came across this really neat trick the other day and am sure that it should be much more widely used. If you want to test a webserver before updating … Continue reading →

February 19th, 2011

Changing the Joomla Contact Form

The Joomla Contact Form Today I spent several hours hunting around to find a way to preset some of the form fields on the standard Joomla Contact Form. It’s something I would have expected to have been freely available and … Continue reading →

February 8th, 2011

How to list disk usage in Linux shell

A very simple technique to list disk usage by top level directory in the linux shell:- PHP | copy code |? 1du -sh `find -maxdepth 1` Note the back single quote which you normally find top left of your keyboard. And you can change the … Continue reading →

February 5th, 2011

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