I’ve been creating and managing websites for over 10 years and for me it was a continuous learning experience. The websites setup by me which are most dear to me are PSD Dude and of course the Coding Dude blog which I only recently started. In this post I would like to share with you...
Liferay Script for Setting Document Library Folder Permissions
Setting document library folder permissions in Liferay can be a tedious task, especially if you have a complicated structure of shards and organizations. Using a script can be the faster way than doing it manually. In this post I will show you how I manage this task in production servers and will provide you with...
Simple Website Background Pattern Generator
In this post I will show you how to create a background image for your website using HTML5 canvas. With simple JavaScript and HTML5 basic drawing techniques we will create our own website background pattern generator. The images created can be used for the website background just like any other image patterns. Canvas Drawing...
Liferay Beanshell Scripts for Sharded Environments
Liferay Beanshell scripts are a quick way of handling Liferay portal administration tasks that otherwise would take a very long time to do manually.
HTML5 responsive web design visual tools
Though we all like to write code, it is very nice and useful if we have good tools for visually designing websites that automatically create code from a visual design. With the appearance of HTML5 and concepts like responsive design came the need for a visual design tool that will fit the bill. Here are...
HTML5 and CSS3 front end frameworks and utilities that web developers must know about
Usually programmers like myself seldom find the times to do research about coding areas not related to the projects they do. So, in my case, being involved mainly in back-end development I find it hard to keep up to date with front end frameworks and technologies. However, besides my job, I’m also involved in other...
Custom HTML Tags Example – How to Create a HTML Custom tag for Adding a Gravatar Picture
What is a Custom HTML Tag? A custom HTML tag is a tag that is not part of the standard set of HTML tags. What is cool is that you can instruct the browser to recognize and display custom HTML tags. Let’s see how. Can You Create Your Own Tags in HTML? When using HTML...
Long Shadow Plugin for jQuery
Long shadow design is something that is fairly popular lately, so I decided to “try my hand” into creating jQuery plugin to support the creation the long shadow effect on text and image HTML elements. Long shadow design refers to adding long shadows (ha!) to flat design items giving them a sleek 3D look. I chose making...
How to create a simple jQuery plugin with example
jQuery is one of the most popular, if not the most, JavaScript library in use today on the web. It’s been around for a while and web developers have been using it for almost anything from animation to dynamic styling to complex rich user interface applications. I have to be honest, I like jQuery. I’ve...
MySQL backup restore gives “Invalid command” error
Doing the MySQL backup In this short post I would like to share with you a problem I encountered and the solution found while working with the MySQL tool mysqldump. The story is quite simple: doing some maintenance work on one production application server it was standard procedure to make a full MySQL backup before...