The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. The above error appears after you successfully get phpMyAdmin up and running on OS X, generally you don’t have to worry about it, you only need to address the error if you are going to use a web application that requires it, for example Magento, the shopping …
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Making A Boot USB Disk of OSX 10.9 Mavericks via Terminal and GUI
This guide deals with 3 ways of making a boot disk from OSX 10.9 Mavericks the first one is the fastest and is done via the Terminal from a new command already in OSX Mavericks called createinstallmedia , the other 2 are older ways when Mavericks was in development and are done with a mixture of finder …
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An Introductory Guide for starting out with SASS for CSS
SASS and LESS are two similar tools for writing out CSS code that is sort of pre-CSS code with variables – that is then converted to good ole regular CSS code. Why you would want to use them really depends on your workflow, for smaller scale work and minor CSS updates it probably isn’t necessary …
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How do I know if my website has been hacked?
Check with Google If you think that your site may have been hacked but are not too sure – you can check to see what Google thinks at the following URL http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=mydomain.com Just swap out mydomain.com with your actual domain name What you will see from the returned page is if Google thinks its been …
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How to convert a Flash .swf to an animated GIF with Sharp Type
Need to convert a .swf flash file to an animated GIF to play across all devices. Here are 2 ways to do this Convert a SWF to GIF Well you can import the .swf into Flash and export as an animated gif. Import the .swf Export to Animated GIF – set the the Target Player …
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Getting Selective with CSS Styling
CSS styling can get very specific and you can target less classes and IDs in the HTML markup, and instead target cascading HTML elements – here we take a look at the various CSS Selectors, and give some simple examples of how the selector is written and what it targets. Descendant Selector The descendant selector …
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Upgrading to Ruby 2 on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion
An older version of Ruby ships with OSX by default, the version is 1.8.7 which is now officially retired by its developers. To upgrade to the latest stable version of Ruby, you going to need Xcode and Homebrew installed first, Xcode does the heavy lifting for compiling programs and Homebrew works as the package manager …
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Up and running with installing Less for CSS on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion
Up and running with installing Less for CSS on OSX Less is a CSS pre-processor tool in which you initially write your CSS code using variables, selector inheritance, mixins, and nestings and and then compile that code to spit out regular CSS. The benefits of using CSS pre-processor tools like Less or Sass are more advantageous on larger web projects with …
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