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Creating a popup window with jQuery
975 days
I think it’s time for me to go back in more programming language posts rather than focusing only on WordPress. So here is the first post I’ll make on the fabulous jQuery engine.
The goal of this small tutorial will be to show you how to create popping windows in only a few lines of code.
First, the demo
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This is the content test for this demo
1. Setup your environment
First, you have to grab the latest version of jQuery on their site. (more…)
The importance of a good system monitoring
994 days
Servers are the keystones of any organisation working with computers, and to ensure productivity, you must make sure there will be the fewest downtimes possible. To have a correct Level of service, one of the first things to do is to elaborate a monitoring plan.
Why server monitoring has to be performed?
This question might sound ridiculous, but it’s important to know the reasons why you should monitor your servers.
First, if you have plans for the future, then you must monitor your servers, monitoring will allow you to know how the present is and where to go.
- Disk Usage: How is you space used and how is it growing over time?
- Memory usage: How is your system memory used? Do you plan to have more users in the future?
- CPU usage: Will you need to upgrade the number of processors installed on the server if your number of users increases?
Monitoring will also allow you to prevent incidents, or at least identify them before your customers do. If you know how is going your server, you might notice a possible failure and take actions before it (for ex: /var nearly full, one of your process is going crazy, etc…). (more…)
Why stress testing applications ?
999 days
Stress testing is one of the most important part of development lifecycle as computers have taken a big part in our working life. Everybody working in an office is using a computer, and with that, software installed on it or shared over a network. Applications are probably going to be used by more than one person at a time and you must make sure that, whatever the number of users you have, the application will keep on working in an acceptable way.
We can define software in three categories, local, remote and web applications. (more…)
A New WordPress Theme for Zen-Dreams
Watch your step, fresh paint
Well, You may have seen with my series of Extreme Makeover WordPress Edition, I’ve been working a lot on my new theme here. (more…)
Extreme Makeover: WordPress Edition – Finding Inspiration
1031 days
This post is the second of a series of posts called Extreme Makeover: WordPress Edition
Once you have decided the features you are looking form you should try to get some inspiration. Inspiration is very important to understand your niche and to find out what your audience would like to see in a Blog and what they do not expect. Of course, inspiration is not copying a blog, au contraire !
You will have to find what is best for you, take bits and pieces everywhere to make your own design unique !
Here are some specific places where to find inspiration (more…)
Extreme Makeover: WordPress Edition
1045 days
This post is the first of a series of posts called Extreme Makeover: WordPress Edition
1 – List the good/bad things about your design
Before to go to far, you should make a list of all the features you want and all you want to get rid of from your current design.
Which basically means, what do you want to keep from your current design and what do you dislike ?
For example, you might want to get rid of that left sidebar and move it to the right, get a better search system but want to keep your great Archives page ! (more…)
Slant Six Games' new website
1051 days
Well, as you might have seen, I’ve been away from this blog for quite a while. In fact I’ve been working for a great company, Slant Six Games, to create their new website.
This is no secret, it is a WordPress powered website, thus giving Slant Six Games the power to use it as a corporate website, and as a blog at the same time.
This was the challenge, while having dynamic pages, we wanted to have static pages and a blog as well. The graphics, layout and wireframes was built by Karyo Edelman and it was integrated and developed by myself. (more…)
ZdMultilang Updated
Ok, I’m back into action as I can now work a little bit more from home. I’ve got some WIFI problems but I can work !
So here is the first proof I can work again, you will find that ZdMultilang has been updated for a fix to the bug that made translations impossible to perform with WP 2.7.
In fact I had to change the way variables where passed to the plugin for post/page translations. In the meantime, I included translations for Spanish (made by Guillermo Lopez) and Brazilian Portuguese (made by DJIO - www.djio.com.br)
For now on, I’ll be working on new plugins for WordPress, but I can’t tell you what 
[EDIT] The plugin still had a bug due to the change of variable passing. Version 1.2.2 is now out and corrects it !
ZDPlugins now have an official forum
1155 days
As you might have noticed, there is now a new tab on this site. It corresponds to a forum I installed today in order to provide more collaboration with plugins support.
This will give everybody the chance to share their knowledge regarding various plugins I created.
I Hope this will help you all.
Photo Credits :Haags Uitburo
