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Apache 2.2 will not serve corectly from CIFS mounted share

July 27, 2010
By silviu

I have a home server I use for all kinds of stuff when I’m away. I have set it up recently so that it can serve a folder mounted over the network from a Windows machine. And this is where the fun started! The folders and files appear correctly, I can navigate and I...
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MYSQL: set first letter of field to uppercase

July 12, 2010
By silviu
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I recently had to set values of a set of values from a column from lowercase to Firstuppercase. Nothing easier, run the following code on the database: UPDATE `affected_table` SET `field_in_question` = CONCAT(UPPER(LEFT(`field_in_question`, 1)), SUBSTRING(`field_in_question`, 2))
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Mobile formula one site and application

March 15, 2010
By silviu
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Hey, I used up until last race the nice live-f1 application to see live timings in the linux terminal. But starting with the last race I couldn’t. But today I got great news. The official Formula 1 website just released a mobile version available at mobile.formula1.com and oh joy and happiness they also released...
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Uploading big files via php

February 11, 2010
By silviu
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I’m updating a site for a client that only has file access to his hosting account via a php file manager (extPlorer for Joomla to be precise). He needed uploaded a few flash videos (in excess of 15 Mb each) but extPlorer stated that the file limit for php was set to 8 Mb....
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Put an Online – Offline Yahoo Messenger button on your website

January 16, 2010
By silviu
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If you run an online business like an e-store or something similar you might want to show a button showing if your are available to chat via Yahoo Messenger. This is a fairly easy job to do. All you have to do is to show this code somewhere on your site: <a href="ymsgr:sendIM?YOUR_YM_ID"> <img...
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How to recover a lost Joomla admin password

December 18, 2009
By silviu
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I administer a few Joomla sites so from time to time I discover that I lost the admin password for the one I hadn’t had to update for a long time. There is no way to find out what that password was because they are stored as a one way MD5 but since I...
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Installed Google Custom Search, no results are showing.

November 30, 2009
By silviu
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I did a website for a friend, a kind of a knowledge base and installed google custom search on it. To my surprise google stubornly kept showing no search results. I redid the custom search settings, paying close attention to the domains on which I wanted the search limited on, but still no results....
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New menu items don’t appear in Joomla 1.5.14

November 3, 2009
By silviu

I was configuring a Joomla installation for a client today and stumbled upon this little problem. No matter how I tried, new menu items refused to appear. Not only in the front-end, but they were missing in the back-end too. I checked to see, but the PHP settings were all correct. Then I noticed...
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How to add a favicon to your WordPress Blog.

June 9, 2009
By silviu

This was simple: I used The Gimp to create a file 16 x 16 pixels and saved it as favicon.ico Upload it to the root of your website Added the following to header.php: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> Fast and easy !
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Custom csv export from virtuemart

June 4, 2009
By silviu

One of my clients needed a custom feed of his virtuemart products. I did a quick google check and nothing came up, so I decided to write my own. Please note that I’m not a programmer and I bet it can be done faster, better and more elegant, still this works, so … <html>...
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