From My Heart to Yours Hi Baby, today the 19th of December not only marks the day that you get one year older, it also marks the day you become one year more beautiful. I created this section on my website just to remind you that although I am busy all the time there is [...]

If you edit a text file on Windows and you then use it in emacs under a Linux environment you will see the ^M character at the end of each lin. Do the following to remove it in emacs. ; goto top of buffer M-x replace-string C-q C-m RET The control-q will allow you to [...]

While doing my usual random searching through Google I stumbled across a wonderful resource. Something I think every individual not only computer savvy persons or geeks would find useful. It’s a list of 100 open computer courses. Yes, open as in FREE! The are split into the following categories: Computer Science and Engineering Computer Security [...]

Found these keytool commands that saved me some valuable time working with an already existing .p12 certificate for signing an applet. It withs in JDK6 and onwards (not in JDK5 and earlier). JKS → P12 keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore keystore.jks -srcstoretype JKS -deststoretype PKCS12 -destkeystore keystore.p12 P12 → JKS keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore keystore.p12 -srcstoretype PKCS12 -deststoretype [...]

Ever interested in applying all kind of stuff to text you already have, like converting csv data into a table or reversing the order of words in a sentence without reversing the letters of the words? Well, I have and it has been a nightmare to find online resources to get these quick tasks completed. [...]

When trying to use WordPress automatic update I got this error ‘Error: There was an error connecting to the server, Please verify the settings are correct.’, after trying multiple attempts to rid myself of the problem I had a eureka moment. I thought to myself, “what if it Apache wasn’t seeing the right permissions of [...]

Most Linux distribution such as Ubuntu automatically mounts your usb drive when it is plugged in. Sometimes we take this for granted and if for some reason the drive doesn’t load we tend to pull our hair out trying to figure out why. If you’re like me then this is a sad reality that you [...]

Ubuntu is a wonderful system especially for those who want to be in control of their operating system. On the other hand, sometimes you just want something to work without the hassle. Here is how to overcome one of those hassle if you or your friends want to share files across an Ubuntu installation. On [...]

Cforms II is one of the most popular plug-ins considered by WordPress. I recently started using this plug-in for the contact form on any website that I create and it works like a charm. The only problem arise when you want to migrate your local development install to your production server. Here I am presenting [...]

JamalahBryan.com (JB) is an expansion of the Wordpress Maasahan theme originally created by Padd IT Solution. While most of the original layout was maintained I added a lot of new features to suit my needs along with the color change. The original theme used multiple CSS files to match layout, colours etc., but I prefer to have all my CSS in one stylesheet which is much easier for future editing. Similar to my choice to combine the stylesheets I also changed the implementation of some features. For instance, the featured post gallery was created using Mootools but I am a jQuery guy so I found a jQuery plugin and customised it to my needs.