Ubuntu: xserver-xorg-core version 10.3. breaks the Xserver!

If you updated your xserver-xorg-core recently, then you’re avare that your GUI ain’t working and all you can do is to login without one. Since I am new to Linux, I need some kind of step by step solutions in order to avoid panic. What you need to do is to update your xserver-xorg-core to [...]

CSS hacks and Cross-Browser Compatibility

This is a great starting point for every HTML coder and Web Designer who wants to pass over to pure XHTML/CSS coding. Cross browser compatibility is the thing I find most annoying in this field, and I looked for this kind of table for a while. Take a look at this List of CSS Hacks [...]

rsync – synchronize web server and your local computer

When developing sites it’s always a pain to upload updates on server, i.e. to synchronize server with local copy of the files. This is especially true if you have a site which you don’t keep under version control (although there is no good reason for that) or if your hosting company doesn’t have CVS / [...]

How to sort MySQL results ignoring definite and indefinite articles (the, a, an)

We recently had a problem – we needed to sort MySQL result based on Title column, but while sorting we needed to ignore both definite and indefinite articles (i.e. ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’). Although this is an frequent request (people mostly want to ignore articles when sorting), we didn’t find a lot of solutions. Those which [...]

How to add multiple files to Subversion

After switching completely to Ubuntu I also had to switch from TortoiseSVN to plain svn command line. The problem I have is that I don’t see any way to add multiple files to SVN with one command. I want to be able to add ALL files that aren’t under Subversion version control and use a [...]

GMail Drive shell extension

When GMail appeared almost instantly there was a Linux program that enabled you to mount your GMail account as 1GB drive on your local system. Today I stumbled upon same kind of program, but for Windows. If is called GMail Drive shell extension and it will make your GMail account act as ordinary storage medium. [...]

Prevent content / bandwidth theft

Recently we had content theft problem on one of the sites we worked on. Content theft or bandwidth theft occurs when somebody links directly to an image (or any other file) on your server and displays it on their page.

B-MAN Stock Photos

While I was seeking for inspiration throughout the Net one place jumped to my face. B-MAN has excellent royalty free stock photos, some very interesting tutorials. And A LOT of inspiring stuff! Check it out now!