For the past few months, I have been struggling with trying to learn how to program in Javascript, one of the easiest languages one can learn (besides C, I suppose). I know to program in PHP pretty well, I got the whole concept down, and I’ve made plenty of sites to say that I’m experienced.

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Recently, Ive realized that I boot into my Windows just to get on Dreamweaver to do some coding. There are lots of code-editors out there, available for Linux but what I really needed was a “web editor” that would support FTP uploads, PHP, CSS, and Javascript coding and everything else. I also wanted a sleek [...]

The Ubuntu Software Center is all the way on the bottom of the “Applicatons” tab. Click on it, and youll get to the following screen:There are thirteen categories where you can find most of the synaptic packages and software available to Ubuntu. If you click on “Get Software” on the left you will be provided [...]

Ive been writing for numerous blogs for a while now. And its the same thing every time, I have to log in to the blogging system (Blogger for example), pick the right blog I write for, add a new post and remember how to use the particular editing interface. Its the same with Wordpress, LiveJournal, [...]

Okay, I promised you that I would go over some/most applications available in the Ubuntu Software Center. First up is 7zip located under the Accessories. Here is the information:7zip is a windows-only compression tool, serving as an alternative to Winzip. This 7zip install is a command-line only port of the original application. It was created [...]

Recently, Ive realized that I boot into my Windows just to get on Dreamweaver to do some coding. There are lots of code-editors out there, available for Linux but what I really needed was a “web editor” that would support FTP uploads, PHP, CSS, and Javascript coding and everything else. I also wanted a sleek [...]

Okay, I promised you that I would go over some/most applications available in the Ubuntu Software Center. First up is 7zip located under the Accessories. Here is the information:7zip is a windows-only compression tool, serving as an alternative to Winzip. This 7zip install is a command-line only port of the original application. It was created [...]

The Ubuntu Software Center is all the way on the bottom of the “Applicatons” tab. Click on it, and youll get to the following screen:There are thirteen categories where you can find most of the synaptic packages and software available to Ubuntu. If you click on “Get Software” on the left you will be provided [...]

Ive been writing for numerous blogs for a while now. And its the same thing every time, I have to log in to the blogging system (Blogger for example), pick the right blog I write for, add a new post and remember how to use the particular editing interface. Its the same with Wordpress, LiveJournal, [...]

Have you ever wondered about that pretty subscriber counter most blogs have on their pages? How do they know exactly how many people are following them?Its called FeedBurner.  Ive been using it for a while now and it never occurred to me how much POWER such a service can have! Not only are you provided [...]

Recently, I have noticed that I use the same exact functions over and over again in PHP. Ive actually set-up a complete function list that I tend to include in all of my projects. Here is an overview of some of them.Lets connectYou will need to connect to your database from time to time. It [...]

Ive decided to start a new section on DavePCGuy that deals entirely with PHP tips & tricks. Whats great about that is that I show you some of the lesser known/used PHP functions, PHP uses in new creative ways.First up is substr(), a simple yet rarely used function that cuts up your string. You tell [...]

Sweet Ubuntu 10.04 finally came out a few days ago. And you would not believe the wonders I have experience since trying it out! You HAVE to try it out for yourself, Im sure youll love it just as much I do.That said, I have already downloaded the 64 bit edition and I am currently [...]

Are you having trouble with Windows 7? Well, I am. I migrated my W7 installation to a new hard-drive using HDClone (There is a free version there!). The problem is, the new HDD is about three times as big and the bootloader cant make it work. I get an error saying Device not accessible. It [...]

I encountered a strange dilemma. I was using HDClone to clone my hard drive, and as Ive said in my last post, I messed up my Windows installation. After deciding to reinstall Windows, I encountered another problem. My partition table. You see, my hard drive has 500GB instead of 160GB (my old HDD). So here [...]

I encountered a strange dilemma. I was using HDClone to clone my hard drive, and as Ive said in my last post, I messed up my Windows installation. After deciding to reinstall Windows, I encountered another problem. My partition table. You see, my hard drive has 500GB instead of 160GB (my old HDD). So here [...]

Are you having trouble with Windows 7? Well, I am. I migrated my W7 installation to a new hard-drive using HDClone (There is a free version there!). The problem is, the new HDD is about three times as big and the bootloader cant make it work. I get an error saying Device not accessible. It [...]

Sweet Ubuntu 10.04 finally came out a few days ago. And you would not believe the wonders I have experience since trying it out! You HAVE to try it out for yourself, Im sure youll love it just as much I do.That said, I have already downloaded the 64 bit edition and I am currently [...]

Ive decided to start a new section on DavePCGuy that deals entirely with PHP tips & tricks. Whats great about that is that I show you some of the lesser known/used PHP functions, PHP uses in new creative ways.First up is substr(), a simple yet rarely used function that cuts up your string. You tell [...]

Recently, I have noticed that I use the same exact functions over and over again in PHP. Ive actually set-up a complete function list that I tend to include in all of my projects. Here is an overview of some of them.Lets connectYou will need to connect to your database from time to time. It [...]

Have you ever wondered about that pretty subscriber counter most blogs have on their pages? How do they know exactly how many people are following them?Its called FeedBurner.  Ive been using it for a while now and it never occurred to me how much POWER such a service can have! Not only are you provided [...]

Alright, its finally out. The famed 3.6 that will have a tremendous CSS3 support and all that other crap If you have it, check out my CSS3 tutorials  to see how it works on backgrounds, border and opacity, and other border properties.Im running Mozilla 3.6 right now, so let me tell you what [...]

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials HV-Designs.co.uk Tutorials, Resources and Photoshop Freebies.This article here is a great intro to all you blogger beginners with Wordpress. It talks about all the different options you can use while posting on your blog. Including, how to manage your categories, how to use post slugs, the Press This feature (which [...]

WP to Twitter | Joe Dolson Accessible Web Design.Ive just discovered the craziest, awesomest plugin for Wordpress. This little fella allows your WP blog to automatically update your Twitter with the the blog title, a shortlink URL (cli.gs or bit.ly), and even an excerpt!It has a lot of customizable options, so you can do a ton [...]

A short what to do if your project fails. How to salvage the code, the files, and how to make the best of what happened

kulerKuler is a great tool for all designers. Its really similar to the Color Scheme Designer in the aspect that it composes several colors for you to use in your design.It has several other features that make it even BETTER than CSD but there are tons of features missing too. Lets start with the good [...]

RainyMood.com.Rainy Mood is a great, and relaxing website. What does it do? It plays a fifteen minute loop of rain OVER and OVER again. Thats it! How simple.Why am I even bringing this page up? DESIGN!Lets look at this page. It has a great background that fits into the 500kb category, a simple image header [...]

Sorry about the recent absence of new articles at our site. We have been very busy with numerous new projects. DavePCGuy is shifting into a new world of Web Design. Were finally moving forward.Ive started coding Wordpress Themes, and custom websites. It keeps me busy, along with school.We will be opening up a portfolio site [...]

formspring.me.I have been looking over several new, starting up, social websites. Its no secret that the best way to get noticed, and the best way to promote oneself is using social networking these days. We all have a facebook, many of us have a facebook GROUP or a FANPAGE made for our blog/company/product and it [...]

I am sure the readers of DavePCGuy have been wondering about this very long absence of articles. Well, the story is long and tedious but basically, all summed up, its because I have had TOO much to do. Ive come up with an SEO system for my blogs so they get noticed as much as [...]

Remember how I promised I would learn Javascript so many times in the past? Well, I finally got around to learning some of the basics. And just like I did with PHP when I was learning it, I decided to create a simple application. I could not come up with a good idea so my [...]

Remember how I promised I would learn Javascript so many times in the past? Well, I finally got around to learning some of the basics. And just like I did with PHP when I was learning it, I decided to create a simple application. I could not come up with a good idea so my [...]

I am sure the readers of DavePCGuy have been wondering about this very long absence of articles. Well, the story is long and tedious but basically, all summed up, its because I have had TOO much to do. Ive come up with an SEO system for my blogs so they get noticed as much as [...]

Sorry about the recent absence of new articles at our site. We have been very busy with numerous new projects. DavePCGuy is shifting into a new world of Web Design. Were finally moving forward.Ive started coding Wordpress Themes, and custom websites. It keeps me busy, along with school.We will be opening up a portfolio site [...]

formspring.me.I have been looking over several new, starting up, social websites. Its no secret that the best way to get noticed, and the best way to promote oneself is using social networking these days. We all have a facebook, many of us have a facebook GROUP or a FANPAGE made for our blog/company/product and it [...]

RainyMood.com.Rainy Mood is a great, and relaxing website. What does it do? It plays a fifteen minute loop of rain OVER and OVER again. Thats it! How simple.Why am I even bringing this page up? DESIGN!Lets look at this page. It has a great background that fits into the 500kb category, a simple image header [...]Related posts:Coupon designOnly A QuoteMobile Websites (tips)

kulerKuler is a great tool for all designers. Its really similar to the Color Scheme Designer in the aspect that it composes several colors for you to use in your design.It has several other features that make it even BETTER than CSD but there are tons of features missing too. Lets start with the good [...]Related posts:Color Scheme Designer Explained

Alright, its finally out. The famed 3.6 that will have a tremendous CSS3 support and all that other crap If you have it, check out my CSS3 tutorials  to see how it works on backgrounds, border and opacity, and other border properties.Im running Mozilla 3.6 right now, so let me tell you what [...]Related posts:CSS3 Lesson 2: All About BordersThis year and the next

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials HV-Designs.co.uk Tutorials, Resources and Photoshop Freebies.This article here is a great intro to all you blogger beginners with Wordpress. It talks about all the different options you can use while posting on your blog. Including, how to manage your categories, how to use post slugs, the Press This feature (which [...]Related posts:Twitter on WordpressGoogle Wave and Google Voice Giveaway!WP to Twitter Plugin

WP to Twitter | Joe Dolson Accessible Web Design.Ive just discovered the craziest, awesomest plugin for Wordpress. This little fella allows your WP blog to automatically update your Twitter with the the blog title, a shortlink URL (cli.gs or bit.ly), and even an excerpt!It has a lot of customizable options, so you can do a ton [...]Related posts:Twitter on WordpressTweet This and URL shortening API

A short what to do if your project fails. How to salvage the code, the files, and how to make the best of what happenedRelated posts:Only A Quote

Okay, in my first tutorial, you learned about creating an install script for your blog as well as the entry form that will add your blogs.In this tutorial, Ill teach you how to parse the data out for your audience and how to edit your entries./* LET'S GET STARTED! */Show off your stuff!Haha, lets get [...]Related posts:Creating a Blogging system (part 1)Bit.ly API and adding URLs to your MySQL databaseCustom E-mail Form

Some time ago (a couple weeks), I created my own blogging system. No one told me how to do it and I didnt read any tutorials on how to do it either so there were a few things I learned the hard way. As you know, Blogs are database-based, theyre all entries in a table.You [...]Related posts:Bit.ly API and adding URLs to your MySQL databaseCustom E-mail FormPHP error reporting script

So you are reading this article wondering what its gonna be about? Well I am cheap, its January and everybody is broke. Oh yeah and the economy sucks. Supposibly the companies thought that people would stop buying computer parts so they slowed down production, which made some parts prices skyrocket. Example: I have bought 22gigs [...]Related posts:My new wireless love Asus WL-520gU (on budget)Solution to new Laptops/Computers with annoying

Ive recently started working on some mobile websites. Youll notice that davepcguy.com has its own mobile alternative as do some other sites. Mobile devices are growing in number and gone are those days when internet was viewed only on the computer screen. WAP is not even used either so that old school coding is gone [...]Related posts:CSS Lesson 6: Intro to DivsCSS3 Lesson 3: Background Information is EssentialCSS Trick: Disappearing Textbox

Yay! Happy New Year to everyone. Weve changed some things around here on Dave PC Guy. As youll notice, the theme looks a bit different and its much cleaner. I dont know, I like it better this way.Weve also added a contact form to our contact page so that you wont have to [...]Related posts:This year and the nextFirst post

We here at DavePCGuy have finally launched our first independent website, done completely without an outside sponsor!Its called Only A Quote. Basically, what it is, is a database of quotes from different kinds of places (added one at a time to ensure quality) where the users only see a single quote with a random button [...]

In my last tutorial, Ive touched on how to use the to.ly API and how to make automatic Tweet it buttons with a relevant message.Well, this can get problematic if with every page refresh, your server sends out a request to the to.ly server for a short link. Pretty soon, youll be getting Too Many [...]

Alright, youve all seen those CRAZY Tweet This buttons on so many websites, (mainly wordpress). You may have also noticed that some just send you to twitter and you have to manually input the twitter message. Well, how about we just make a button that will automate all this for us?I really do love it [...]

Lets have a look at backgrounds. In the previous two tutorials, Ive covered borders and opacity. In this tutorial, well cover some of the basic CSS3 additions to the background properties. If you have no idea how to deal with backgrounds in CSS, read my tutorial on backgrounds pre-CSS3. CSS3 is gaining momentum in the [...]

Okay, I have to thank all of our readers and people that have supported us along the way! It has been over three months now since we launched DavePCGuy.comSince our launch, we have published 47 distinct, separate, and awesome blog posts! Most of them have been PHP or CSS tutorials and it was quite a [...]

Okay, I’ve noticed some REALLY cool stuff on CSS3 online, so I thought to myself, how about I make my own experiment and teach you all about how to use this stuff?Here are a couple of resources I’m using to learn about CSS3:CSS3 InfoCSS3 ValidatorIntro to CSS3W3 AvenueNet Tuts Plus tutorialI’ll start with the topic [...]

I’ve recently gotten my hands on oh so many Google Wave and Google Voice invites so we here at DavePcGuy thought we should share!So what are we going to do?I’m going to write a simple PHP script that will pick a number from 1 to whatever number of subscribers, on feedburner, we have. I’ll roll [...]

Google Social Search is a new Google feature that seems to be another addition to Google’s long list of diverse services that include AdSense, Blogspot, etcIt’s finally here, or it will be pretty soon. The “Social Search” is basically an extension to google that searches through your friend’s list on variety of social networks, including [...]

sourcePhew, I was waiting for this. Ubuntu 9.10 has officially launched today. Go take the feature tour and see what it’s basically about if you know nothing about Ubuntu or Linux. So, here we are, 9.10 is here. It came out with three different versions:The Desktop Version: The version of Ubuntu meant to run on [...]

Remember that trick to show a sub-menu using CSS in my older tutorial? Well, I had an idea for a project of mine, and with a little help from my dear friend Raphael. Last night, I launched my little website project called “A Night Story” and made some tweaks. Ignore the story, it’s just a [...]

I’m dead serious with the title. I’ve installed W7 a couple days ago, and I have been testing it in ever way a person like me would use Windows 7 for. Look, I am a very non-lenient consumer when it comes to OS, Imaging Programs, and anything to do with web-development. I have my reasons [...]

Windows 7 has a very nice, unique feature and that is virtualization. You can create virtual Windows XP, and as many as your system can handle. There’s no limit on how many of them you create, and each one can be different. The Virtual Windows XP is easy to set up, you can create your [...]

Ah, so google came out with yet another feature. Some time ago, I talked about the Google Social Search that was in its developmental stage. Well, Google just came out with its new Google Privacy Dashboard. It’s another step for Google to become more transparent and less, mischievous. Read about their Google Privacy effort, it [...]

Hey everyone, Dave and I are hosting a giveaway. We’ve recently stumbled upon a large number of Google Voice invites and we’re prepared to give them away. Because honestly, we’ve already used a large number of those on ourselves, and neither Dave nor I can keep up with twelve different numbers.The GiveAwaySo here’s the deal, [...]

So after random drawing…. We found our first winner of GOOGLE VOICE.THE winner is rbizmarkie@(I can’t tell you).comWell rbizmarkie enjoy the google voice, and please send us your experience.As for the ones that did not win, there will be more drawings.DaveShare and Enjoy:

Border Radius and OpacityI’ve noticed some hundred tweets on CSS3, every day. Check out the CSS3 Watcher for random updates. They actually mention really awesome and useful tutorials. So now, let’s look at some basic features that actually work cross-browser (with some tweaks). You can check some of the usage on two version of [...]

SpyBot is like one of my most favorite spyware programs out there. Its free, which is important, but mostly it really works. Sadly,  there are some people who seem to have the need to pay for these programs, yet it is unnecessary. Therefore, spybot is very good addition for curing your sick PC.Easy as pie [...]