Want to speed up your Joomla front end? Yes its a great cms but it can be slow. Here are a few tips to increase speed and maximise your google page speed score. 1. The cache plugin, yes a plugin. Search for it i assure you its there just not [...]

This method only works if you install and enable the 3rd party MVC plugin – or provide your own equivalent plugin. It is fine for advanced developers – just be aware that this is not part of Joomla! Core code There may be times when you need to override the [...]

Keep getting asked about google pagespeed and what a pain it seems to be, you have to do this and that and yes the site should have been built like that in the first place but what if it wasn’t or you want to take it even further. Well mod_pagespeed [...]

Joomla not sending out email via pop up window. Strange as this was an issue in 1.5 and seems to be the same in some 2.5 installations.   To resolve this problem, open this file: components/com_mailto/controller.php Locate the following line of code (approximately line 57): if($timeout == 0 || time() [...]

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Firstly i found this nightmare but as always love to share. So here is the scenario i wanted to move our dev infrastructure in house servers, racks, raid etc all sorted nice and easy. Have two IP’s as i have a 150MB fibre line but one ip is for voip and other is [...]

Had to create this for a clients project as couldnt find it anywhere. Enjoy  

This should take you through everything required to get the Chromium browser installed.  It’s a nice quick process with not much effort required. Pre-requisites This tutorial has been written with the assumption that you have the Raspberry Pi up and running with a working internet connection. There are two ways [...]

Needs testing is a version from XBMC wiki Introduction Cyberlink Media Centre Remote Control is some £5 USB remote control. It looks like this: On Linux (>=2.6.29)it is detected as some kind of keyboard/mouse combo. The device mostly generates keyboard presses, like “0″, “1″, “2″, “XF86AudioPlay”, “Enter”, “Delete” and so [...]

Currentlyy testing this (Arch)Linux This is how to install the Apple Remote (A1294) on a Macbook under Archlinux. The IR driver is called macmini if using a different IR device find out the driver name and replace macmini. You will need to run the irrecord step below and won’t be [...]