Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

Configuring Gallery2 to send email using Gmail

Monday, October 27th, 2008

I recently revived my online photo gallery but ran into a problem with sending mail. Unlike most of my other sites, I run this on a box that I have at home, which means that it's affected by my ISP's retarded firewall rules. Like most consumer ISPs, Rogers blocks outgoing ...

How To Integrate Subversion and Mantis

Friday, September 26th, 2008

I've been using Subversion for years now (and it's a great app), but just recently I've started using Mantis to keep track of tasks/bugs for some of my projects. Having your issue tracker reflect related changes in the source is very helpful and lately I've been thinking of setting this ...

Preloading Images With Javascript

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Every now and then I come across some topic which for some reason is like a black hole in the web. Sometimes I just find it impossible to find good information on a certain topic that I think would be quite popular. Last week I was asked to come up ...

Tutorial: A random title plugin for Wordpress

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

A couple of people have noticed the random titles displayed under my blog name up in the header (refresh the page to see what I mean). The actual reason I did that was simply because I couldn't come up with a reasonable title to use by default. So my indecision ...