Have you ever wondered how a website can look great on your desktop and appear reformatted on your phone? The secret sauce is done via CSS Media Queries.
In a nutshell you define your styles for larger screens, and then override those styles with more mobile friendly options if the screen is smaller. You can specify the exact width which allows even to detect if someone is holding their device portrait or landscape.
Let’s look at how this can be accomplished with CSS rules.
Sometimes “new” doesn’t always mean “better” or “suitable”.
Sometimes we require older versions of plugins and I’d rather WordPress would not tell me that there’s a newer version available. After all, I might accidentally update a plugin – or perhaps my clients do, breaking the site or overwriting customisations.
Let’s take a look at how we can disable those notifications, both for single plugins and for the entire site.
Plesk allows you to create custom buttons to the control panel, complete with logo and URL. Since Plesk 11.5 you can even choose in which part of the panel your buttons shall be displayed.
To do this, login as administrator and head over to
One of the many new features in Plesk 11.5 is that you can customise the Panel appearance for your customers even more than before. For example, Parallels allow us to display any RSS Feed in the control panel in the right sidebar. Adding it isn’t as easy as it perhaps should be. In this article … Read more
I had an odd problem the other day: I wanted to restore a fairly large folder from my new AirPort TimeCapsule. But the restore always stopped at one particular file, with an error message about permission problems.
The folder in question was about 4GB in size and contained just over 10.000 files in total. I was baffled! Time Machine had never failed me before, so what was going on out of a sudden?
Well I guess it’s a computer, and things just go wrong sometimes. Thanks to Apple Support this problem is now solved – and I thought I’d share the insight, both with you all and my future self.
Every once in a while it can happen happen that use use “yum update” to update your Linux system.
Usually this works without a hitch, but you may have come across a message such as this:
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
The program yum-complete-transaction is found in the yum-utils package.
But what does this mean, and how do we alleviate this?
I’ve just ordered a new Dynamic Cloud Server with 1&1 with a total of 800GB disk space. They rock, but they come with a minor inconvenience: due to the way these server instances are allocated, 1&1 do not automatically extend the partition for you – so you can’t actually start using the full amount you’ve ordered.
Here’s how to make use of the full disk space on a current file system:
Targets are an extremely yet totally undocumented feature of Xcode. They allow you to write code once, and then build multiple “versions” of the same code base. This makes maintenance and code updates extremely easy across more than “product”. I use those quotation marks because usually an “Xcode Project” equals a “Product” (such as one […]
