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  • How to Limit Content in WordPress

    This is an old article describing old-fashioned ways of limiting content. I’m publishing a new article on this topic very soon so make sure you subscribe below. Have you seen those cool magazine style WordPress themes around this days? They are just cool. You might have noticed that they sometimes show a few words of…

  • Easy PHP I: Introduction

    I’ve been involved with PHP since I got into the web design and development world. This is because since in my beginnings I chose to use WordPress as a CMS to build websites with and since that day I have been needing PHP to build WordPress themes (and plug-ins lately). I have learned a lot…

  • How to Create a Folder Shortcut on Ubuntu

    If you have ever used Windows, you know what I’m talking about. I was reorganizing my desktop and I decided to have nothing on it except a shortcut to my Download folder. So, I cleared it out, but I stuck at the point of the short cut. However I found it out pretty soon and…

  • How to Install Fonts in Ubuntu

    After a long time using Windows, I switched to Ubuntu, but I noticed that my own sites and other daily ones like Gmail and different other blogs I read where not looking as good as they were before the switch. Being a web developer I know that web sites are designed with Microsoft fonts in…

  • Advice from Steve Jobs

    I came across this wonderful video where Steve Jobs is delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. In this talk he gives out three pieces stunningly simple yet great advice by telling three stories from his life and this stories are about getting fired from Apple in 1985, life &…

  • New WordPress Freelance Project: JDMNagoyaAutoParts

    I have been working on a lot of WordPress freelance projects lately, that’s I why I have been lazy posting. One of the most successful one is JDMNagoyaAutoParts, a showcase website for Japanese cars in Canada. I say it was a success because the project consisted on a lot of out-of-the-box theme development techniques and…

  • That’s Awksome!

    Have you ever been doing something on the terminal and realise that most of the information thats being reported is useless to you? Ever thought, “Hey it would be really cool if it would only show me ‘just that bit’”? Awk could be the answer. Awk is a DSL or Domain Specific Language aimed at…

  • Do You Know How Matt Mullenweg Works?

    Today I read a great article of Matt explaining the way he works over at Automattic published  at Inc.Com: It is into two versions, Matt’s version and Inc’s one. Inc seems to write your words in first person their way. That is why Matt decided to rewrite it for his blog readers. I like more…

  • How to Install XAMPP on Ubuntu

    Introduction If you are a Linux (or Ubuntu) web developer or even a web designer with interest in CMS systems like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla etc., you are for sure in need of a web development environment on your work computer to test websites or themes that you built for any CMS. If you have not…

  • Accessible CSS

    When I needed to hack a WordPress theme and I got my hands dirty with CSS code, sometimes I came across with in-line written CSS code i.e. every CSS selector occupied only one row. I found this practice very ugly and not scannable. I was used to CSS written in the classic way where every…