Category Archives: HOWTOs

AJAX: Learn The Basics Without Using Toolkit Libraries

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Tony Bhimani

AJAX is one of the popular acronym buzzwords in the world of web development technologies. It stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. What it does is allow you to make your website far more dynamic by updating portions in realtime … Continue reading →

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JavaScript: Controlling a Popup Window’s Parent Window

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Tony Bhimani

You may find it useful to control a parent window from a generated popup window, such as being able to manipulate its look, content, etc. One example being a web application I wrote for work. In the portion for entering … Continue reading →

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PHP: Checkbox Arrays with Javascript Usage

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Tony Bhimani

If you’ve created HTML forms then you’ll have used checkboxes and radio buttons for gathering user input. Taking it a step further you would link your form with a server-side scripting language such as PHP to capture the user input … Continue reading →

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Ogre3D SDK 1.7.3 for Apple iPhone iOS HOWTO

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Tony Bhimani

Welcome to my third installment for Ogre3D on the Mac platform. This tutorial will describe the steps to installing the Ogre3D SDK version 1.7.3 Apple iPhone iOS release on Mac OS X. I’ll also go over installing the Ogre Xcode … Continue reading →

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Building the Ogre3D SDK Samples on Mac OS X

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Tony Bhimani

In my previous Ogre3D tutorial for the Mac I showed you how to set up your Mac OSX development environment with the Ogre SDK 1.7.3, install the Xcode templates, and create a sample Ogre project. That’s a great start but … Continue reading →

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Guide to Installing Ogre3D on Mac OS X (Xcode + Ogre SDK 1.7.3)

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Tony Bhimani

This guide serves as an introduction to getting started with Ogre3D on Mac OS X, namely setting up the development environment and building a basic application. It’ll serve as the first in several series of blog posts I intend to … Continue reading →

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Creating Multi-Volume Archives and Checksums

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Tony Bhimani

The goal of this article is to help you create multi-volume archives and generate checksums to validate integrity. Why? You have data larger than any single CD-R disc or DVD and you need to split it into pieces, or you … Continue reading →

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Creating Captcha Images with PHP and the GD Library

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Tony Bhimani

A long time ago I wrote some code to create captcha images using PHP. The goal was to create similar or exact representations of the captcha’s used on Yahoo’s Overture. I really don’t have an answer why I chose their … Continue reading →

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Domain Redirection using Apache mod_rewrite and .htaccess

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Tony Bhimani

I recently acquired more XenoCafe domains (xenocafe.info, xenocafe.net, and xenocafe.org) and finally got around to adding them to my server. Instead of them being their own sites (well, point to my primary site, but the URL in the browser address … Continue reading →

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Openfire Jabber/XMPP Server on CentOS mini-Howto

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Tony Bhimani

So you want to set up your own private chat network for friends or family, or maybe your company uses the major chat providers like AIM, Yahoo, MSN, or Google for interoffice communication, but you want more control and to … Continue reading →

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