When you need to connect to several servers because you need to share, update or syncronize a set of files, a common situation is authentication process with the server, if you do this several times in a day, it could be a little hard to type or input your password every time that you are…
Today, after downloading a new version of a Linux distribution, I needed to check MD5 Hash in order to verify if the ISO file had not any error. This is a common task for IT people, for this reason, I would like to share with you the easiest way to get the MD5 Hash in…
When you are creating a web project and you need to send an email you could choose between two options: Server-side solution. I consider this is the best way to send an email because with this solution you can customize all as you need like: HTML, styles, attachments, etc. but it is more complicated because…
LESS is a dynamic stylesheet language published as open-source. It includes a pre-processor that allows compile a template -in LESS language- and get a standard CSS as output. Main difference among LESS and other CSS pre-compilers is that LESS allows real-time compilation via LESS.js by the browser (client-side) or even it is possible to compile…
Imagine the possibility that you could control how your website is displayed when someone visit it in a smartphone or in a tablet, that is an awesome feature that it will do your visitors love you! Well, media queries, are an excellent way to change styles (images, backgrounds, colors, height, width, spacing, etc.) depending of the…
As a web developer I am sure you have asked yourself many times how to decide which web browser your project should support when it is using new HTML5 semantic elements, well today I will try to summarize -with this short article- a list of resources and suggestions that could help you with this task. After studying…
When you need to integrate a video player on IBM Web Content Manager, probably you will not find very much documentation, for this reason today I would like to explain how to integrate one of the nicest video players available at this moment; I am talking about Flowplayer. Flowplayer is an HTML5 based player but…
Today, I would like to share a useful code that could help when you need to know if a color is correctly entered in an input field. So, here is an example of how to validate an HTML hexadecimal color by using a regular expression in JavaScript. The regular expression to accomplish this task is:…
Today, I was trying to get a list of all my unread messages in Gmail, at the beginning I thought this task it would be really easy, but actually, took me more than 15 minutes to find the correct way to do it (thanks to my Base22 friends, because they told me how do it)….
When you have a project created on Joomla CMS, you will need to protect your directories and files in order to avoid a possible attack or loosing information. During my time as a web developer and as a server admin in Government I learnt about what’s is a good configuration for setting permissions, for this…