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Tuesday January

How to keep putty connection alive

Written by Nabil Sadki

Users of Windows environments often use the PuTTY client for their connections with Linux, it allows them to have direct access to the SSH server to perform bash command line.

Such access facilitates surely the task for network administrators, developers or even the webmasters.A command line that runs in a few seconds often avoids long working hours.

Among the best practices in developing a Drupal module, the use of templates is placed high on the list, this allows us to respect the MVC pattern (or at least a small part of it).

We gonna see in this article how it is easy to create our own simple accordion system using the Mootools library. Of course there are lot of Mootools plugins that allow us to create such system in our websites, but sometimes we need really a simple way to do the job, and in this case, this tutorial can make your life easier. So take your keyboards and let's do it!

Monday August

How to preload a page using mootools

Written by Nabil Sadki

Some web site contains a large number of images, scripts or stylesheets even after optimization of various pages. This slow loading, and the end user just does not perhaps understand that the page is being loaded when he sees everywhere broken divs, or images half loaded.

In this small article I will show you a trick that allows you to make a preloading image on your site, which will disappear once the page is loaded, using the Mootools framework.

Sunday August

Video : Joomla 1.6 for developers

Written by Andrew Eddie
This video looks at the many of the changes in Joomla 1.6 that developers need to be aware of as presented by Andrew Eddie on 15 May 2010, a few days before the Beta 1 release.  This is part 3 of 3 in a series of in-depth talks on Joomla 1.6.
This video looks at the many of the changes in Joomla 1.6 that developers need to be aware of as presented by Andrew Eddie on 15 May 2010, a few days before the Beta 1 release.  This is part 3 of 3 in a series of in-depth talks on Joomla 1.6.
This video looks at the many of the changes in Joomla 1.6 that developers need to be aware of as presented by Andrew Eddie on 15 May 2010, a few days before the Beta 1 release.  This is part 3 of 3 in a series of in-depth talks on Joomla 1.6.
Tuesday June

Video : Joomla 1.6 ACL

Written by Andrew Eddie
This video looks at the new access controls (user groups and permissions) in Joomla 1.6 as presented by Andrew Eddie on 15 May 2010, a few days before the Beta 1 release.  This is part 2 of 3 in a series of in-depth talks on Joomla 1.6.

In this article I will present 10 essential features to use when developing a website with Joomla CMS, they can be a good source for a Joomla novice developer, which will enable him to know best practices to use in such project.

Take into consideration that these tips are tested in version 1.5 of Joomla, and can more or less do not work into the next version 1.6.

Monday May

Welcome to my personal blog

Written by Nabil Sadki

Hello everyone, I welcome you to my personal blog. Going through the different sections, you'll find articles about Joomlaand Drupal, but also JavaScript frameworks, mootools and jQuery, databases, PHP, and general information on the web.

I share my knowledge with all of you, knowing that when I have not much time, I collect one or two articles on the net that i found usefull, and I publish on my blog by mentioning the source of the article, to benefit everyone.

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