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Feb 12, 2013

Ubuntu Software Center Not Responding

My son is attempting to be an avid Ubuntu user it seems, quite adventurous for someone not even two. I'm not sure what he did, but he managed to open Ubuntu's software center about twenty times. Next thing I know I am getting a whole of bunch of error logs and "not responding" messages. Next thing I know my applications are missing from the dash home.
#ubuntu
Feb 10, 2013

relogo: rel="logo"

There is a new proposed "standard" rumbling around the 'nets on how to provide an up-to-date logo for a brand using the <link> tag.  The goal is to provide outside websites, applications, readers, and whatever else the Internet may bring with an always up to date logo. Think of it as your favicon for browsers, our the apple-touch-icon.
#rel  #relogo
Feb 10, 2013

Tips & Tricks: the WordPress Photo Gallery

With WordPress 3.5 came an awesome revamp of the media library that allows users to easily place a photo gallery from new and old images within the media library. The gallery shortcode was introduced and provides quite a few different features, all available from a user interface and not just shortcode attributes.
#css  #php  #wordpress
Feb 05, 2013

Responsive Images

Responsive design is all about the ever growing number of mobile devices that individuals can view a website on. Creating a fluid grid system to adapt to these different screen resolutions and widths is a major undertaking.
#css  #responsive-design
Feb 02, 2013

XAMPP: Fix automatic script installs

I use XAMPP as a local test server on my Mac for testing and debugging. I mean, nothing is more embarrassing than making file changes to a live site and bringing it down. One thing always bothered me, but not to the point of solving it. WordPress, Drupal, and other CMS software provide built in automatic updates or installation - but out of the box it does not work on XAMPP.
#apache  #xampp
Jan 26, 2013

Improve your SEO: Act like a crawler

A market has exploded for building your online presence, the acronym SEO (Search Engine Optimization  has quickly become a common place term for marketing strategies. Before a business could attract new customers with an enticing ad in a newspaper or magazine - but now consumers are active and searching for services.
#html  #seo  #web-crawler
Dec 28, 2012

Git RPC Failed; result = 22; HTTP 411

Apparently by default git has a limit for max upload files. We build our test sites locally, push to git and then deploy to a beta site. That means there can be a bit of data being transferred, especially in a site with PDFs.
#git
Dec 18, 2012

Ubercart Tax Per Product

Recently I had to configure a client's Ubercart to tax per product to prevent gift certificates from being taxed at checkout. Ideally I wanted to add a "NOT" rule to my sales tax rate item within Ubercart; but, Drupal only supports "AND" and "OR" operators.
#drupal  #tutorial  #ubercart