You have large file to upload to your server and hate FTP clients that takes numerous days and nights to upload, Try SSH to upload files. SSH is comparatively faster than FTP (My Personal Opinion).
If you are running Linux or FreeBSD Operating System on your local computer and have access to server shell, use ‘scp’ command to copy files and directories to the server. Read the rest of this entry »
I started exploring Ruby On Rails (ROR) since last week and thought of maintaining a category on Ruby On Rails. Let us install some ruby and gems on Ubuntu to get started.
Let us grab some essential tools to build and install Ruby
#sudo apt-get install build-essential
I have been busy and yes very busy with Lolypop – My New Rapid Application Development Framework for Joomla Apps. Joomla is easy to tame because of its MVC framework but it involves many repetitive task and it can create slag in development. Create similar models, similar controllers and similar views for every other task or forms, it is cumbersome , yes it is painful. What if we can add few features to existing framework, what if we can remove these repetitive tasks and code, what if our app was smart enough to decide what is best for its execution. And these what if..s gave birth to Lolypop. Read the rest of this entry »
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Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your Web site sing. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for developers all around the world to create powerful add-ons that are called Extensions. An Extension is used to add capabilities to Joomla! that do not exist in the base core code. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available Extensions: Read the rest of this entry »
If you have a VPS or Linux server running Apache the good old fashioned way without fancy control panels, you’ll quickly have to learn some Apache tweaks.
One of the main issues we commonly run into is a non-working .htaccess file. Apache doesn’t come with .htaccess support automatically turned on. You’ll have to turn it on in order for .htaccess files to have an effect. Here’s what you do:
There are two ways,
Elements are of utmost importance in Joomla development. Elements allows you to create custom parameter type that you can use in your metadata files. Metadata files are xml files that are used to provide configuration parameters to your component, module, plugin or even views. Metadata files for your views are used configure menu links that that will use that view.
In this short tutorial, I will tell about creating elements and using it differently on different places. Elements are special files that generally adds value to parameters. For this tutorial, I will create a color element that can be used in different components, modules, plugins where color selection is done through a color picker. I will use moorainbow as web color picker. Read the rest of this entry »
A small donation can make a big difference to opensource developers who devote few hours a day to help a community of users. I also develop extensions for Joomla and release it for others to use. Joomlaguru.com.np is one of my site that is devoted to help Joomla users. Small or Big, donations matter to opensource projects and developers.
Recently I created a donation module for joomla that collects donations on Joomla sites. This module uses Paypal to collect donations and is simple to setup and you can get it up and running within a minute. This module is free to use and is released under GNU/GPL. You can see live demo of the module at www.joomlaguru.com.np. Read the rest of this entry »
I recently released jQuery plugin for Joomla on joomlaguru.com.np. This is a simple plugin that allows user to use jQuery in Joomla and is based on my tutorial here. This plugin works in two modes and allows user a flexibility to replace or use jquery in conjunction with mootools. This plugin is released under GNU/GPL and is free as in free beer!
1. Two modes
User can select to replace mootools with jQuery completely or use jQuery in conjunction with mootools. Using jQuery with mootools introduces noConflict features of jQuery and replaces ‘$’ operator with jquery. This allows other libraries to use ‘$’ operator without conflict. Read the rest of this entry »
I have created a google analytics plugin for Joomla. This plugin is simple and inserts google analytics code into joomla pages. This plugin is released under GNU/GPL license. The plugin is free and available from www.joomlaguru.com.np Read the rest of this entry »
Hi Folks,
I feel honoured and glad to announce the launch of new website www.joomlaguru.com.np. This is a beta launch of the website and hence there are more to come in future. Please report bug or request feature you want to be included.
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