We may not have that many news to post, but we have lots of technical tips and tricks of the Web Designer trade… so why not share them at the same time with a community that has given us so much?
Upgrading HP G6 Laptop to Ubuntu 11.10… More Tales!
This morning, I upgraded the HP G6 Laptop to Ubuntu 11.10, and as I feared, things did not go as smoothly with the HP and the RALINK 5390 as advertised. More…
Ubuntu on HP G6 Laptop: tales from the grave!
As a professional Web Developer, I just love Ubuntu/ Linux. But the reality of the work environment means that I can not ignore Windows and Internet Explorer.
So I installed Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwal) in parallel with Windows 7 Home Premium on my new HP Pavilion 6g laptop model LVC991UA… which turned out to be anything but straight forward. Here is how I did it. More…
When An Option Is No Longer So
Scenario: I have a form drop down menu which lists courses. As courses are filled, I want an easy way to remove the course selection from the drop down menu. More…
Tooltip those Hotspots on Map Areas
JQuery tooltips are wonderful, but, surprise, surprise, do not work on Map hotspots with all versions of Internet Exploder. More…
From MS Access to MySQL – in 100 easy steps
I maintain a searcheable MySQL database of member’s coordinates on the Nepean Sailing Club web site that is sent to me by email as a Microsoft Excel export from an Access database. Here is how I go about it… More…
Teach you computer to think Ubuntu!
Booting XP Home Edition on my 2006, 512KB Ram Fujitsu laptop used to take 15 minutes on a good day, and 25 minutes on a not-so-good one, that is, most of the time! More…
Time to set the table
The most popular way to add borders to tables is with the primitive border="n" tag where “n” is a number expressing the thickness in pixels More…