Fading Menu - Replacing Content

The more I learn about jQuery, the more natural it feels. Probably because of how closely tied to CSS it is. From a design perspective, the syntax for jQuery is:

“When I do this, make the CSS do this.”

So now instead of thinking about CSS as page layout and a way to style your page when it loads, you can use in animation and change it on-the-fly to react to events that happen on your page. Take for example a menu. You can take the “click” event that happens when clicking on a menu to do lots of stuff...

The Truth About PHP Variables

I wanted to write this post to clear up what seems to be a common misunderstanding in PHP - that using references when passing around large variables is a good way save memory. To fully explain this I will need to explain how PHP handles variables internally. I hope that you will find this interesting and useful and that it helps dispel some myths around references and memory management in PHP.

5 Web Design Tips You Can't Live Without

The web design world is filled with excitement and experience, creativity and skill. Often, experienced web designers utilize a set of solid, proven techniques that others may not notice. Let's take a look at a few of these techniques and how you can implement them into your own site quickly and easily.

Improved Ajax Add, Edit & Delete From MySQL Tables

"Someone asked me in a comment how you would add another entry field to the previous version of this code & well I couldn’t really answer the question. It proved to me what I already knew, the code needed re-writing."

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OpenSSH 5.0 released

OpenSSH 5.0 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at www.openssh.com shortly.

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Google App Engine needs PHP support

Google App Engine was launched but it does not support PHP. This article presents some ideas that can help Google adding PHP support sooner rather than later.

Secure Data Destruction

It seems that almost every Linux blog I read today had something about recovering deleted files from ext3 filesystems. That’s all well and good, but what if you are sure you want the data deleted? What if it needs to be more than just deleted, it needs to be securely destroyed? Well the concept certainly isn’t new, and as such, this won’t be the first time it’s covered on a Linux blog, but I’ll show you a few different ways to securely delete whatever incriminating information may be tucked away in your computer.

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Tools to access Linux Partitions from Windows

If you dual boot with Windows and Linux, and have data spread across different partitions on Linux and Windows, you should be really in for some issues.

It happens sometimes you need to access your files on Linux partitions from Windows, and you realize it isn’t possible easily. Not really, with these tools in hand - it’s very easy for you to access files on your Linux partitions from Windows...

Installing the Eclipse PHP IDE

If you've been looking for a decent PHP editor and don't want to hassle of leaving your favourite IDE, you don't have to look any further than PHPEclipse. This article outlines how to install the plugin to your existing Eclipse environment.

Review: PC-BSD 1.5

PC-BSD, a strong contender for the top desktop distribution out there, has once again grown, going from version 1.3 to 1.5 in just under a year. In that time it's grown, prospered, and had it's fair share of growing pains as well. But version 1.5 is only one subversion up from the previous version 1.4 that we reviewed. So what makes version 1.5 better than its predecessors and worth a look from us? Well, let's have a look.

How To Disable a User Account in Linux

Linux systems use /etc/shadow to store the encrypted user passwords. The quickest way to disable a user is to alter is password stored in /etc/shadow.

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From FreeBSD to PC-BSD

I did an install of FreeBSD 7 on the $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450) a couple of weeks ago for a number of reasons.

First, I wanted to see how the new FreeBSD would run. It's supposed to be light years faster than the previous releases, at least in server situations, and I'm very much interested in how it performs on the desktop as well...

Setting Up Disk Quotas

Setting up disk quotas for users and groups is very important - critically necessary, in fact, if you don't want to run out of room on the server you are maintaining. They are commonly used for machines run as Web servers with ftp access, to prevent any one client from uploading beyond the amount of space that they have purchased in their contract. Disk quotas can also be used on Samba servers for users' home directories and NFS filesystems. Your Linux server can easily be configured to keep your users within specified limits and to keep them from filling up the partition. Some people will surf the Internet and download videos and mp3s carelessly during their lunch breaks, running other users out of space for their work files. To prevent this kind of activity, we set up user and group quotas to keep the users within boundaries.

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How to make a dynamic RSS feed in PHP

"It's useful because people can easily subscribe to these feeds and receive updated content of their liking when and where they like, from various sources in an organized manner."

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Turn Your PC into a DVD Ripping Monster (Linux Version)

Lifehacker gave a nice tutorial on how to do DVD ripping under windows, with the help of a combination of shareware and free tools. It’s only fair to show that under Linux, this can done just as easily.