Category Archives: Software

Computer software, or just software, is any set of machine-readable instructions (most often in the form of a computer program) that directs a computer’s processor to perform specific operations. ( Wikipedia )

LibreOffice Primer Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to a great suite of office automation programs called LibreOffice, by The Document Foundation. LibreOffice has functionality like the Microsoft Office suite of programs, bringing the user a lot of the feel of … Continue reading

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jQuery Sortable Table Primer Tutorial

A lot of the things people like about the Web are to do with JavaScript and client-side activities. Adding to that experience are Javascript libraries packed full of features. Probably the best known of these is jQuery. Read more about … Continue reading

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Static HTML Based PHP Primer Tutorial

Today’s tutorial is like a step back … a woah! … to people familiar with PHP. Even so, those PHP experts may like to rethink on things back to the day they first took it up … did you skirt … Continue reading

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MacPorts pdf2json Primer Tutorial

With a few previous tutorials, such as Wine Primer Tutorial as shown below, at this blog, we have used the brilliant MacPorts as a method of installing Open Source software on a Mac OS X operating system via the Terminal … Continue reading

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PHP Guestbook Primer Tutorial

In New South Wales, in Australia, at the moment, it is school holidays. At the end of those school holidays, if you’ve been out and about staying at accommodation, you may want to thank the hosts for the wonderful stay … Continue reading

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Extended Linux Crontab Curl Tutorial

Sometimes for a website you only want to do a web server task once or a few times a day, and you, ideally, wouldn’t want to run into the remote possibility that two people could perform the task at precisely … Continue reading

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More on Linux Crontab Curl Tutorial

Sometimes for a website you only want to do a web server task once or a few times a day, and you, ideally, wouldn’t want to run into the remote possibility that two people could perform the task at precisely … Continue reading

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Local Webserver Search Engine Primer Tutorial

This topic got my immediate interest when reading a chapter (16) in Linux by Steve Oualline and Eric Foster-Johnson called “Setting Up a Search Engine”. As a creator of web content, who wouldn’t want to know something about this subject? … Continue reading

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