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Yes, it’s possible to change those ugly Inkscape interface icons to Tango icons! It’s easy; here’s how. No comments. Read the complete article »

Although PHP for loops are already incredibly fast, you can further, albeit rather marginally, optimize your loops if you are a performance junkie. Here are some simple ways how. Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

Shiretoko alpha 1 is here, but already some people dislike the new tab switcher. It’s still in alpha, but if you’re sure you won’t ever need this feature, learn how to avoid it here. NOTE: Personally, I like it. EDIT [10/17]: Works on Shiretoko beta 1. One comment. Read the complete article »

Here’s a more technical but quicker way to get almost any GTK+ program, not just Pidgin or GIMP, to follow the same GTK+ engine on Windows. One comment. Read the complete article »

This tutorial, complete with screenshots, shows you how I got both Pidgin and GIMP on Windows to honor the theme I choose in the GTK+ theme selector applet. Now, may the frustration of interface inconsistencies end! 3 comments. Read the complete article »

Since NOVALISTIC’s tutorial section is more than halfway there (I know I’m slow, but whatever), I don’t wish to write anymore tutorials for blog.NOVALISTIC. Well, there are two unfinished tutorials. I might finish the one on PHP loops and publish it either later today or tomorrow or some other day before the end of 2007.
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Some of my friends who do web design (Nicole and BAA, I’m looking at you!) have requested that I write a tutorial on how to design a blog layout, and finally I’m bothered to think of ideas of a design and then begin coding.
The tutorial will be divided into two parts: design and coding. Yes, [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

As I’d promised, today I’ll teach you how to create your own functions to assist you in your programming.
It’s pretty simple, but some people might not be able to grasp the concept so I’ll try to make things clear for everyone On to the tutorial! Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

Today we’re going to look at what most programmers call functions.
A function is what you call in your program to tell it to perform a series of smaller actions, like echo(), substr(), mysql_query(), or your very own functions like calculate_age() or bake_cookies() (which we will learn how to create in the next tutorial).
I’ll be explaining [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »

I was just messing around with PHP and the very promising web application framework CodeIgniter, which I’m using to develop NOVALISTIC 3.0, and I encountered a funny parse error listed below:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in D:\NOVALISTIC\3.0\ci\system\application\views\header.php on line 10

The first thing I (obviously and intuitively) did, was search PHP Bugs for the string [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »