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Archive for March, 2011

Creating Virtual Hosts in Ubuntu

I was doing my morning reads as usual when I came across an article on creating virtual hosts for apache on OSX. Well after reading the article I decided I’d mention that this pretty much works on Ubuntu as well. Only difference being the location of your config files for the virtual host in apache. [...]

Send Mail Locally on Ubuntu

I develop php backends for websites on the regular. And far to often I end up sending emails, and need to test their layouts by sending them to my primary email address. But wouldn’t it be MUCH more convenient to send them to an email address @localhost and keep my primary account clean? Well you’re [...]

In my previous post I covered a basic example of using CSS Media Queries to create a slick left menu to auto hide when the screen is smaller than 500px. This post I want to take that a step further. Lets say we want to show the navigation on landscape orientation with the ipad, but [...]

Effective Example of CSS Media Queries

With the growing demand of mobile devices we must now take into consideration what the user is viewing a website with, and handle these situations appropriately. CSS in particular has some pretty handy methods to assist with this through media queries. You may have seen “@media” before, but did you know you can add even [...]

Timepicker gets Time Zone

Thanks to Harbulot over on Github, there is now a timezone option with timepicker! Time Zones are ticky in a sense. They aren’t always consistent unfortuantely, so this addition was completed with a dropdown. Not all timezones are even hour intervals. But never fear, the options are completely customizable. Lets take a look at a [...]