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Installing Peer Guardian on Ubuntu

Published on 2012-05-14 15:59:35

Some of you might be familiar with an application called PeerBlock which is made specifically for Windows. You may also remember the older version called PeerGuardian which is also made by Phoenix Labs. Whatever the reason is for needing these types of applications, I thought it might be useful for [...] > read more

Fixing Can’t get filling percentage magento error

Published on 2012-04-11 14:40:11

Fixing magento errors can be quite cumbersome especially when you only receive a log message and magento saying that it can’t produce any output for security reasons. One error we encountered was quite puzzling and involved an issue with memcached and the native magento caching. “Can’t get filling [...] > read more

Adding Oracle JRE and JDK to Ubuntu

Published on 2012-03-26 22:16:19

Problem: Need to install Oracle JRE and JDK and NOT Open JDK/JRE on Debian-style distros. Solution: After thumbing through countless pages I finally found the answer! 123sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin [...] > read more

Upgrading Magento 1.5.0.1 to 1.6.2.0

Published on 2012-02-02 19:46:16

Upgrading Magento is always scary – kind of like flashing your BIOS on a PC. It is always important to backup your entire file system and magento database prior to upgrading to the most recent version to avoid catastrophic results. This tutorial is for those of you who are at whits end and you just More > > read more

Setting up Magento in XAMPP

Published on 2012-01-30 02:56:43

Some of you may be banging your head against a wall trying to figure out how to setup Magento in your local XAMPP installation. Fret not aggravated peoples, we have found the answer! As you may know, Magento is a popular e-commerce platform that can handle anything from small business to enterprise e-commerce solutions. Despite it’s More > > read more

Fixing T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM with Clever CMS in Magento 1.6

Published on 2012-01-27 05:16:24

After a recent upgrade to Magento 1.6.2.0 and using Clever CMS, we realized there was an issue on our frontend! We saw a weird error we had never seen before with an older version of Clever CMS. 1Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in /home/your_account/public_html/app/code/community/Clever/Cms/Model/Page.php on line 101 Some of you might be wondering what in the More > > read more

Installing Microsoft Fonts on Linux Ubuntu

Published on 2011-08-31 21:42:51

Even with the most recent version of Ubuntu, it still lacks the truetype font kits that come with Windows. Sometimes we might want to use Trebuchet MS, Verdana, or — heaven forbid — Arial. This is a quick tutorial on how to install the most common windows fonts on your Ubuntu OS. We will need to More > > read more

“How did you hear about us?” in Magento 1.5

Published on 2011-06-23 22:14:36

One of our most recent projects required us to get a grip on the Magento e-commerce platform. The client was request a “How did you hear about us” feature on the Magento onepage checkout form. Rather than spend the time to learn exactly h > read more

Basics of CSS Revisited

Published on 2010-11-29 10:00:15

After awhile of going back and re-reading the previous CSS tutorials, I realized there was some flaws here and there and some things that should have been covered earlier but were not. So we’re going to start anew with a whole new CSS series th > read more

PHP #6: Even More Control Structures

Published on 2010-11-27 11:00:21

So far we have learned about the following control structures: if, elseif, else while for But there are still more. We’ll first look at the switch construct. Switch The syntax for a switch statement looks something like this: 12345678910swit > read more

Wireless Security Explained

Published on 2010-11-04 15:34:55

Wireless internet access has been around since the mid 1990s and has quickly become a hot item since then. Most computers we purchase today come with the capability to receive wireless internet signals in the form of radio waves. Wireless Network Int > read more

My Computer is Slow!

Published on 2010-10-27 12:00:51

After a few years in the industry of fixing computers, I’ve learned that there’s only so much that can be done software wise to speed up a computer. People often complain about slow and sluggish systems so we naturally do the following th > read more

CSS Attribute Selectors

Published on 2010-08-16 15:04:08

CSS Attribute selectors are used to select specific attributes in HTML. For example, Welcome! Some text here  > read more

PC Tune Up SE

Published on 2010-07-20 14:01:23

Does your PC run slow? Are you seriously contemplating taking it into a computer repair show where they’ll charge you $100+ to speed up your system? There are a few things you can do before you succumb to the computer “repair” shop. > read more

Basics of CSS – Part #10

Published on 2010-07-06 12:00:00

Today we’re going to talk about tables and how they can look significantly better when we add a little bit of CSS to them. If you need a quick refresher on tables, please click here. Styling Tables As mentioned above, styling tables is very use > read more

HTML 4/XHTML 1.0 Tag List

Published on 2010-06-21 12:00:31

DTD referrs to the doc type and indicated which tags are allowed F = Frameset, S = Strict T = Transitional. Tag Description DTD XHTML 1.1 Comment in HTML FST YES Sets document type FST YES > read more

How to Prevent a Virus

Published on 2010-06-18 13:07:12

Although this might seem like a silly question, “How to prevent a virus?”, some people really have no clue how and why we should protect against malware and other technological parasites. Why Protect? Let us assume “malware” i > read more

Tools for Virus Removal

Published on 2010-06-15 12:00:17

Whether you wish to prevent having a virus or malware or if you suspect your system to be infected, here we will be going over some tools and utilities that can be used to prevent malware or to clean your system. Disclaimer: This is merely for instru > read more