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It is required of every Drupal developer to keep ahead of common browser compatibility issues. IE is probably the most notorious browser in any drupal developer’s dictionary. IE is a very peculiar browser in terms of standards compliance. Font issues are very common on IE than elsewhere. Here is a small piece of CSS, that seems to work fine everywhere else other than IE:

Are you looking to configure Drupal with nginx Server? Here is how you build nginx from source with php upload progress module in ubuntu. Create a directory nginx-src and change to that directory mkdir nginx-src cd nginx-src Then download the source package via apt

It's another Friday Morning at the office, and Sandeep's fingers are running across his keyboard at twice the speed of light (or well, at a few fractions of the speed of light).

STATUATORY WARNING: Get ready to be Terminally Surprised (and you thought you knew programming?) It was one normal Friday Morning, and Tingu was thinking of how to spend the rest of her day, when Binny came along with sl and bb to make Tingu's day... Friday 30 March 2012

If we are using a custom font on our webpage and if that particular font is not installed on a user’s computer, then there is a good chance that our website would become unreadable. One of the best solutions to overcome this scenario would be to embed the said font file into the CSS in the webpage source. Checkout the most simple method of embedding fonts within a CSS.

Git is a popular version Control System that is Free Software. Created by Linux Torvalds to manage the development and deployment of the Linux kernel. The advantages of Git prompted developers to use it in many other software projects which required a robust version control system. Recently Drupal made the official transition from CVS to Git citing its advantages. So If you want to be a great developer you should get to know Git and its strengths when compared to existing Version Control Systems.  Read on to get a better perspective on Git and its importance to Drupal.

What is CSS? This is a common question asked by most web users hoping to understand how websites are created when they encounter the three letters on the web? Almost everyone is familiar with Html as it is a simple markup language but CSS seems to be an enigma. Since most of our work in developing web apps based on Drupal revolves around CSS, we have decided to share our knowledge with you.

Learn how web developers can harness the full potential of Google Analytics for data-driven insights and performance optimization. Discover essential tips and techniques to boost your website's success.

Another October has arrived and, like clockwork, Canonical has released the latest version of Ubuntu - Ubuntu 11.10 or codenamed Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot. The Content Grid team has in turn put in some effort towards this new release and has come up with an Installation Guide for Ubuntu 11.10. The CDs and DVDs for the latest Ubuntu 11.10 should be available via our RequestCD program.

When a file is deleted, only the pointer to the file is overwritten and the original file will still reside in the blocks of the storage device and will be kept there until it is overwritten by another file. In a sense, you can always write a file but you can never delete it. So if you have ever faced the dilemma of trying to recover a deleted file in Ubuntu then look no further. Linux offers a wide range of tools for recovering deleted files. These tools work by retrieving the pointer to the deleted files.

BSNL had recently launched their 3G services in India with speeds of up to 3.6Mbps. Interestingly the 3G USB modem provided by BSNL also comes with a wvdial front end targeting GNU Linux users. Welcome change from the national telecom provider. Unfortunately the 3G USB device(ZTE MF626 HSDPA with device id 19d2:2000) had the same problem with switching the mode from the storage device, that it gets detected by default, like its predecessors. Here are the steps for configuring the BSNL 3G modem in Ubuntu. This should work with minor variations in other GNU Linux distros as well.

A new breed of USB wireless modems with inbuilt flash storage containing the driver to install the wireless modem have been invading the Wireless Connectivity marketplace. A typical example is the Reliance Netconnect 1.x. The USB Modem gets detected as a cdrom when you plug it into your laptop. However a GNU/Linux user does not have anything to cheer about the driver in the flash storage, as these drivers are all Windows drivers (so far). Here is how to install the Reliance Netconnect in Debian Lenny. The instructions should work for debian variants like Ubuntu, Mint etc.