Meet Carl
Hi. I'm Carl, an electrical systems engineer with a passion for web developing and webdesign.
Since 2006 I'have been creating websites and blogs off all kinds.
I'm now capable of coding in within the most used coding languages.
Now I decided to create my page where I will post interesting things, regarding web coding, design and some engineering related stuff.
I hope my website information will be useful for you in any kind.
Network topology
After almost two weeks we finaly start to use Cisco Packet tracer, that is a powerful network simulation program.
It seems a bit complicated at beginning but it is a question of not trying to see everything as a whole but going device by device.
Popularity: 8%
Computer networking
Recently I enrolled in a Network management course wish seems to be very interesting, a side from all my knowledge, this will open some other gates to me on my fields of expertise.
The course is on Cenec, one of Cisco networking academy in Sevilla, Spain, and this is the first module of all this adventure. This week we just started to use (again, after some years from leaving school) binary to decimal or the famous hexadecimal conversions as well as starting to learn to calculate sub-networks.
It’s really interesting as after some time we do need to practice some calculations to keep our brain working at full gas.
Popularity: 40%
7 great firefox addons
Here’s a list of the major firefox addons that I use
LastPass
This robust password manager is a must-use freeware tool that supports multiple operating systems and browsers. With LastPass, you create a master password, and then it uses automatic form filling and one-click log-in to simplify password entry. LastPass will create secure passwords for you, as well as allow for secure password sharing, password import and export, secure note-taking, and password backup and restore.
Download LastPass addon here
Delicious
Here you got one very usefull tool. It helps you in everything related to bookmarks; you can add it to almost major browsers, and also access it on the web. You can share your bookmarks with your friends and even make them private. This is even better, as you can add a lot of information regarding the bookmark, using it as a micro blog.
Defenitly better then any other bookmark aplication.
Download Delicious addon here
NoScript
This free Firefox extension blocks JavaScript from running without your permission, but NoScript doesn’t allow you to stop its own devices. After installation, NoScript adds only a small blue button marked “S” above the toolbar. To configure the program options, simply click the button to display a very conventional interface.
Download NoScript addon here
Firebug
Have you tried out Firebug yet? If not, you might want to consider giving it a go. It’s one of a few Firefox extensions that I use almost daily in my web development work, and I can guarantee that it’s made my life at least a little bit easier. I most often use Firebug for its ability to “inspect” various elements on the page.
Download Firebug addon here
Better Privacy
Better Privacy (free) can get rid of privacy-busting Flash cookies, also known as local shared objects or LSOs, which are used by many sites to supplement the normal HTTP cookies. Flash cookies can be used for similar things as HTTP cookies, including saving preferences and tracking where you surf, but you can’t delete Flash cookies using basic browser options like you can with regular cookies.
Download Better Privacy addon here
Aardvark
Cool utility for cleaning up a page (for printing or better viewing) as well as for web development. Displays a red rectangle on the element under the mouse — hit “w” to go wider (get the containing element), then hit other keystrokes to remove, etc. Powerful and user-friendly selector utility for selecting elements and doing various actions on them.
AdBlock +
Annoyed by adverts? Troubled by tracking? Here’s a very good addon that everyone should use to avoid those unnwanted worms. It’s very easy to use. You simply have to click on the link or image you want to block and add it to the blacklist. It wont show anymore. A very usefull tool for every developer or any home user should use on a day to day basis.
Download Adblock+ addon here
Popularity: 55%
Banners set
Here’s some nice and usefull set of banners with 468X50 to use the way you desire. I use must to create site banners.
They are in psd format so you can edit in photoshop.
I’ve used must the blue and grey color to mismatch the colours.
Feel free to download it here:
[download id="2" format="1" autop="false"]
Popularity: 55%
Bitdefender Antiphishing toolbar and firefox
On the last 8 hours I’ve been around a firefox installation that starts to slow down when I did updated it to the latest version ’3.6′.
After a lot of try outs, creating new profiles and new installations it didn’t get any better, but starting it in safe-mode did change the speed of it.
Finally I figured out that firefox was adding the Bitdefender IS 2010 (wish is the anti-virus installed) Antiphishing toolbar to any of the profiles automatically and activated by default.
After deactivating it all started to flow normally, with all the main firefox plugins I use most.
Popularity: 100%
How to redirect visitors automatically
It might so happen that during the web site maintenance, you might rename a page or move it to another location.
One of your kind visitors (can) informs you that he/she stumbled on this page and it shows a “404 page not existing error”.
Think about other users who have ‘bookmarked’ this page or worse still, search engines that have indexed this page.
A remedy for this problem would be to use an automatic redirection and you can employ the tag to accomplish this job.
Using the http-equiv and content attributes with appropriate values, we can set up this redirection.
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10; url=somepage.html">
The tag has to be included in the HTML head. The content attribute takes two values. The first specifies the number of seconds for the page to refresh and the second is the page URL address. (Note: These two values are enclosed in only ONE pair of quotes and separated by a colon).
The code above redirects the user to somepage.html in 10 seconds.
It is also wise to include a link to the new page in the HTML body section for older browsers that do not recognize the tag, something like:
The page has been moved <a href="newlocation.html">here</a>
Popularity: 70%
Text-shadow in IE with jQuery
One of the things IE wont show beside other major browsers, is the text-shadow effect. With this plugin you can achieve it. A handy little thing of Internet Explorer is that it gives you access to CSS declarations it does not understand, so this plugin simply requests the text-shadow value of a given element and processes that.
Popularity: 69%
15 Free RSS icons
Matthew is a web designer who likes to draw excellent graphics, and he releases free of charge so anyone can use it.
Here’s some rss icons he created.
I , Myself used some of this icons, they are really useful to create some good looking graphics for your website.
The .zip file contains around 15 RSS icons in JPEG and high-res PNG formats.
Feel free to download it here:
[download id="1" format="1" autop="false"]
Popularity: 68%
How to reset wordpress password manually
Recently I had some problems reseting a wordpress password, I didn’t get the confirmation email with the password, So the best way I could find to reset it manually was to go thru the PhpMyAdmin, so, here’s what you can do:
If you are not very familiar with the PhpMyAdmin, just make a backup so that you can work without any problem.
- 1-Login to your PhpMyAdmin account, and select your WordPress database.
- 2-Select & browse wp_users table, look for the username, you want to reset the password and click on the edit icon
next to your username. - 3-Once the edit page is open, select MD5 from the Function dropdown next to the user_pass row. Change the value on the user_pass row to your new password and then hit Go.
- 4-Now fireup your WordPress admin panel, and login with your new password and it will upgrade your password to the new phpass hashing.
If you follow this steps, everything should work fine now.
Popularity: 68%