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What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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Author Archives: Craig Lotter
How to Install Arial Black Font in Ubuntu 11.04
I like Arial Black. There is something compelling about that big and chunky font that makes me always want to include it in my designs. However, it is a Microsoft Windows font and it comes thus as no surprise that it isn’t available by default on a new Ubuntu desktop installation. Never fear though, not all is lost… it turns out that installing some of the Microsoft Windows core fonts isn’t necessarily that difficult after all!
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Posted in Ubuntu
Tagged arial black, core fonts, microsoft, synaptic package manager, truetype font, ttf mscorefonts, Ubuntu, ubuntu software center
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How to Create a WordPress Child Theme
To create a WordPress child theme of another existing theme turns out to be quite simple to achieve. If you haven’t heard of child themes yet, basically a child theme is an extension of an existing theme, which allows you to make changes to the parent theme without actually editing any of the files of that theme. For object-orientated programmers, you will recognise this concept as being that of inheritance. Continue reading
Posted in Wordpress
Tagged child theme, css, css import, style.css, stylesheet, theme, wordpress
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Ubuntu: How to Add a Cron Job
Scheduled tasks are known as cron jobs in Linux (though you could of course make use of the Gnome Scheduled Tasks tool if you would prefer) and are controlled by what are known as crontabs, basically simple text files containing a list of commands to be run at a specified time or interval. To add your own cron job is actually pretty simple. Continue reading
PHP: How to Send a PDF File Attachment via E-mail
I’ve moved to the fantastic PHPMailer PHP class to handle all my e-mail send outs for my projects and have thus far been quite impressed by the ease-of-use and robustness of the class. Today I’ll quickly note how you can send an attachment (like a PDF file for example) with a mail send out. Continue reading
Posted in PHP
Tagged attachment, e-mail, email, mail, pdf attachment, PHP, phpmailer
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Firefox 4: How to Duplicate a Tab using a Keyboard Shortcut
Here is a quick and easy keyboard shortcut to duplicate or clone the current open tab in Firefox 4. Continue reading
Posted in Firefox
Tagged browser, clone tab, duplicate tab, firefox, keyboard shortcut, tabs
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