Just in case you are into web development, you need to watch this presentation by Nicolas Zakas where he shares his vision about about Progressive Enhancement.
Progressive enhancement is a strategy for web design that emphasizes accessibility, semantic HTML markup, and external stylesheet and scripting technologies. Progressive enhancement uses web technologies in a layered fashion that allows everyone to access the basic content and functionality of a web page, using any browser or Internet
1. If white rice is white, jollof rice is what?
2. How many times have you written this exam?
3. Who was d most abused president in January 2012?
4. Which Nigerian artist now wash cars in kanye west garage?
5. What are the names of the two people shaking hands when you put on a Nokia phone?
6. Complete with the appropriate word (wiz kid) oya oya ___ your mummy. A. axe B. hask C. ask
7.Each of the following causes death Except A. Mouth Odour B. Armpit Intoxication C. Rat poison D. Boko
WordPress is one of my favorite blogging platforms and blogdesk is a lean, mean and cool blogging tool. Previously, I had used Windows Live Writer only if my post required a video, but I recently discovered that youtube videos could be embedded in blogdesk, and its quite easy.
This tutorial is divided into two parts: (1) wordpress.com hosted blogs, and (2) self-hosted wordpress blogs
1) WordPress.com hosted blogs: for example, your URL reads something like
In our previous tutorial, we created a user account, a group account, assigned the user-account to the group-account, and set the necessary permissions for the user to login via Joomla backend.
User was able to login and see the control panel and profile editing options. Read the tutorial here:
Joomla ACL Tutorial: create a user account and allow backend login
After the above tutorial, when our user(sales-user) logs into Joomla backend, this is how the control panel looks like:
In this
By default, while installing Joomla, a user account is required, and created. This user-account has "super user" priviledges(it is assigned to the 'Super User' group).
In this tutorial, we will do the following:
- create a new user account
- create a group account
- assign the user to the group
- set permissions on the group to allow the user to publish articles from the backend.
The following will be done as a super-user:
1) Allow user to login via backend:
- create a user group = sales-group
As much as Windows Live writer is still on top of the game as far as blogging clients are concerned, I still prefer BlogDesk because it is neat, lightweight(as compared to WLW), easy to install and use. Its actually my on-the-go blogging client.
Do you have a Joomla weblog / website or whatever and you want to embed a youtube video/s into a post:
1) Download and install BlogDesk on your PC.
2) Setup / configure your Joomla install for Blogdesk.
3) You need to download and install a Joomla
Todays post is in support of Wikipedia, as they protest against a U.S Congress legislation(undergoing consideration) that is against a free and open internet.
The following are details about their action:
What exactly is Wikipedia doing?
Wikipedia is protesting against SOPA and PIPA by blacking out the English Wikipedia for 24 hours, beginning at midnight January 18, Eastern Time. Readers who come to English Wikipedia during the blackout will not be able to read the encyclopedia: instead, they
Kuala Lumpur - Muhammad Abdulkarim, a Nigerian from Yobe State, received the best student paper award at the Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence conference in Singapore for his research project which uses artificial intelligence tools to prospect for oil in shallow and deep waters. The conference was attended by eminent scientists from all over the world. Besides Abdulkarim, the only other awardee is a professor from Switzerland.
"When I saw how the first presenters were grilled as if by
You are not the only one that gets pissed off especially if you run a webserver on your desktop / server and another application is using the same port. For example: Teamviewer
The following is the procedure to change the default port number: (port80 for WampServer).
1) Locate the filename httpd.conf in your Wamp/Apache install.
For a WAMPSERVER2.2 install, its located at:
C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.21\conf>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is
From my Ubuntu box: I was trying to set my computer time to my local time and took the screenshot below. I didn't know there are many Lagos' around the world.
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