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Guide To Choosing An Open Source E-Learning System (LMS / LCMS)
In this guide I’ll intoduce you to some of the many open source LMS (Learning Management System) and LCMS (Learning Content Management System) projects that you might be interested in deploying. Which system you choose could depend on sever...
Install CURL To Work With PHP On Windows Server 2003 (IIS6)
cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, pr...
Google Wave Puts Pressure On Microsoft By Dropping Support For IE
Finally more and more tech companies and developers are dropping support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. Latest to stab the knife in is Google’s Wave. According to Google: Google Wave runs in most browsers, with the not...
Try The Opera Web Browser On Ubuntu Linux Because It Has Great Ubuntu Support
When you get Ubuntu you get firefox as a default web browser and if somehow you don’t - perhaps if you are using a varied flavor of Ubuntu you can get it in a few seconds using apt or your favorite package management program. But… How abo...
KDE: Use KLinkStatus (KDEWebDev) To Spider A Site To Check For Broken Links
KLinkStatus is a handy web spider program is part of the KDEWebDev suite of applications. KDELinkStatus can recursively follow and check links (both internal and external) in a web site. Once the spidering is completed you can then export the resul...
Override Drupal Menu CSS .leaf .expanded .collapsed Bullets
Time and time again when you design themes for Drupal you will need to override the CSS for much of what comes with core. One such target is the Drupal menu. The menu uses images to create a bullet like effect which most people would not want in ...
Use PHP, SimpleXMLElement And preg_replace To Get And Display Your Latest Twitter Updates
Tried those Twitter widgets that use JavaScript? Can be slow right? How about using PHP instead and saving the client browser a heart attack? Here is the PHP code for a quick Twitter mash up. The code grabs your Twitter updates and then formats ...
Download YouTube Videos On Linux
There are a few programs available for downloading YouTube videos on Linux. Here is a quick exploration of two of them - “youtube-dl” and “clive”. youtube-dl: First you need to download and install the software package usin...
Malay language Software / Tools for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, KDE
Some Malay language tools for KDE. Useful for anyone wanting to use Kubuntu in Malay or work with the Malay language… kde-i18n-ms - Malay internationalized (i18n) files for KDE scim-tables-additional - miscellaneous input method data tables ...
Euro Currency Converter for KDE keurocalc
keurocalc is a quick and easy currency converter / calculator for Linux computers using KDE. keurocalc is available in 2 flavors. Download and install keurocalc for KDE4: sudo apt-get install keurocalc-kde4 Download and install keurocalc for KDE3...
Tip: List, View And Edit KDE Keyboard Shortcuts
Here is yet another really easy and quick tip for KDE. There are loads of keyboard shortcuts ready to use right away and to view / edit them all you have to do is go to System Settings under the K Menu and then go for the keyboard icon. The windo...
KDE4 - Set Konqueror As Default File Manager Instead Of Dolphin
This is easy tip. In KDE4 the default file manager is Dolphin however if like many people you prefer Konqueror (which was the default in KDE 3.x) you can make Konqueror the default by doing the following: Right click on any folder and then select...
Marble Desktop Globe For KDE 4
Google Earth may be the the leader in the field of interactive mapping, especially with Satellite map data but there are some other alternatives. I’m currently testing out the free open source Marble application. Marble currently comes in two...
Tutorial: Edit GRUB Boot Loader Configuration To Set Default Linux Kernel
How do you change the default Linux kernel version loaded by GRUB at boot? Want to use a different Kernel or OS at boot? Firstly simply open the GRUB configuration file located at /boot/grub/menu.lst as root. sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst Her...
Cusomizing Wordpress wp_list_categories(), wp_get_archives() And wp_list_pages() Function Output
Wordpress has standard functions that are part of it’s core for outputting data such as lists of blog categories or pages. For developers creating themes the default output of some of these function can be undesirable. Instead of editing the ...
New Free Online Bahasa Malaysia / English Translator Tool
Translate between English and Bahasa Malaysia online using this tool… http://hygen.net/work/bm2en/ Contact me if you would like the source code or database as it’s open source :) The translator currently has about 700 entries of comm...
PHP Gravatar And Wordpress Gravatar Tutorial
KDE Tutorial: Manage Start-up Services With System Services Program
This is a very basic tutorial. If you are familiar with the Windows MSCONFIG utility and the services.msc console snap-in, there is an application with a similar role in KDE. If you use KDE (K Desktop Environment) for your Linux distribution you will...
Mounting NTFS File Systems With Read And Write Permissions – Revisited
Job Vacancy - PERL Developer In West Yorkshire, UK
Job Vacancy Details: My client based in West Yorkshire, UK is seeking an experienced PERL developer to join their successful financial company. They are looking for people who want to join a fun and exciting company and be involved in some high profi...
How To Enable Mod_Rewrite (Mod Rewrite) On A Linux Server
If mod rewrite is not working you may have to go under the bonnet of your server and try sparking a few cables with Apache web server. First check if mod rewrite is already present an ready to go - apache2ctl -M If it’s not in the resulting li...
OSCommerce Password Encryption
To integrate OSCommerce to an existing web application you will need to know how to add passwords to the OSCommerce customers database. You can use the function below to encrypt the passwords in a compatible manner… function tep_encrypt_pass...
Web Design On Linux
The perfect system for web designers is based on Linux. Every program you need and use is free or charge and 99% of them are open source. You can have an advanced and fully functional system up and ready to start building websites in less than tw...
Wordpress Anti-Spam Security Tips
Many automated web bots (bad ones that spam up blogs) may directly be able to access the Wordpress file wp-comments-post.php by sending GET or POST data to it. If you see hits come up in your log files for the file wp-comments-post.php then you can...
PHP5 Weird Behaviour Of strpos () Function
When using the strpos() function in PHP5 and possibly other versions you should expect some strange behaviour. For some reason the function can’t return true but can only return “not false”! This might confuse you for a while. Che...
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Registration
Having just bought a new HP laptop (mini-note 2133) with SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (SLED 10) pre-loaded I was alarmed to find that Novell is behaving like Microsoft and requires product registration in order to get software updates and install more so...
KIM KDE Image Menu - A Service Menu For Konqueror For Manipulating Images
A while back I wrote a blog post about the building of a service menu for KDE / Konqueror that enables the resizing of images using a simple right click & context menu. This is pretty cool - until you discover the hard work some developers have ...
Free FTP Client Tutorial For Windows & Linux
There is a fast and free FTP client program available out of the box on both Linux and Windows machines. Surprisingy the program appears to be identical - ie: it’s a free open source program that Microsoft has included on their systems as far...
Wordpress Bug In “Subscribe To Comments” Plugin
There is a bug in the Wordpress plugin “Subscribe To Comments” whereby if you uncheck the option… Do a CSS “clear” on the subscription checkbox/message (uncheck this if the checkbox/message appears in a strange location ...
Customize Drupal Menus - Remove The Most Annoying Code
Want to customize the menu in Drupal? Wondering what are all those classes in the menu for - when you are not even using a core theme? The most annoying code in the whole CMS is in Drupals menu system and ouputs something like this: <ul class...
