Category Archives: Tutorials

What is the point of learning a lot but never sharing that newfound knowledge with others in order to spread awareness around? Knowledge is for all and so if I come across some technique or instructions that I wish to safeguard for the future, where better to leave it lying around than on the World Wide Web for all to access?

Google Calendar: SMS Reminder Notifications

Google Calendars is an extremely useful, versatile and powerful calendar application which is available almost anywhere where you can find some sort of data connection – and most importantly of all, it is completely FREE to use. One of the nifty features of this calendar app is it notification functionality, which basically allows you to receive reminder notifications for events in your calendar as they become current.
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jQuery: Iterate Through an Element’s Classes

More often than not, your HTML elements will have more than one class assigned to them. Now while it is easy to check if an element belongs to a certain class with jQuery’s built in hasClass function, you’ll be pleased to know it is just as easy to iterate through all of an element’s classes with some basic loop work.
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Ubuntu Terminal: How to Back up Your Crontab File

To generate a back up of a crontab file is actually pretty simple, making use of the built in -l switch that comes with the command: Continue reading

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Ubuntu Terminal: “cp: omitting directory” Copy Error

When attempting to copy a non-empty directory in Ubuntu using the cp command, you will be presented with the following error message: Continue reading

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