So you’ve made some awesome tweaks to your WordPress theme, but then you go ahead and update it with the latest version from the author and… All your brilliant customizations have been lost! If you have made customizations directly to a WordPress theme, they will be wiped out whenever you install an update from the… Read More »
The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive computer about the size of a credit card that was designed to promote the teaching of computer science. In the spirit of openness, this post focuses on open source games whose code can be studied, analyzed, customized and perhaps even improved upon, by anyone. I’ll start off by explaining… Read More »
In this post you will learn how to use the freely available Tablesorter jQuery plugin, which allows you to sort HTML table columns alphanumerically by clicking the column header. If you want your users to be able to sort tables and save the order, check out this post instead. Setup Tablesorter Make sure you have… Read More »
How do we allow users to reorder the rows of an HTML table and then save those changes back to a table in a MySQL database? This post will explain how to do it in two steps: Enable table drag and drop functionality with jQuery UI Write any changes the user makes back to the… Read More »
Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. In this post, you will learn how to install Drupal on a LAMP Ubuntu server. Installation Download the latest stable version of Drupal from their website Copy the downloaded file to the /var/www/html directory of your… Read More »
This post explains how to setup a wireless HP printer (specifically the HP Envy 4500) in Linux using the hp-setup program. The hp-setup program comes pre-installed in Ubuntu and Mint Linux. Printer Network Setup Follow the instructions that came with your printer to connect it to your wireless network. Print a setup page to get… Read More »
Repeating tasks in OpenOffice Calc, or any other spreadsheet application, can be a tedious process. For example, if you want to sort a group of cells based on a custom order, you would have to do the following: Select a range of rows and columns Click Data Click Sort Select key #1 Click the options… Read More »
After making several modifications to your test site, what’s the best way to transfer those changes to your live site? This post explains how to use Rsync over SSH to keep your test website synchronized to your live site. Rsync saves time and is more efficient than using FTP to upload files one at a… Read More »
It’s convenient to have a local web server where you can test changes to your website before uploading them to your live site, but how do you get your local web development files to the virtual web server? FTP or SSH? Constantly transferring files from the local host machine to the virtual server can take… Read More »
In this post, you will learn how to use HTML and jQuery AJAX to update the rows of a MySQL database table. For this example, the HTML table will have a total of five columns. The first four will contain data pulled from a MySQL database. The cells will be editable so that the user… Read More »