Category Archive: Tutorials

Aug 26

WordPress.org SVN tutorial rewritten for windows users with TortoiseSVN

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First, some terminology

If you’re new to subversion, you’ll need to know what a few words mean, so let’s go over how subversion behaves to introduce some terms.

All your files will be centrally stored in the repository on our servers. From that repository, anyone can check out a copy of your plugin files onto their local machine, but, …

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Aug 15

Using LDView to create POV-Ray files

Render options in POV-Ray

The new LDraw AIOI no longer includes L3P by Lars C. Hassing. Why? Because the new LDraw AIOI also does not include the original LDraw 0.27 package, either. (Which L3P needs to work properly.) Actually, they no longer offer  it for download.

But the popular LDView now also can generate POV-Ray files so you can …

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Aug 02

The nerdy way to send emails

I wrote a tutorial on how to check your email with telnet, so here is how to send it.

Open telnet.

Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Client Escape Character is ‘CTRL+]’ Microsoft Telnet>o ( to )

Connect to a host normally but this time use the smtp server, for most web hosts, you use the same …

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Jul 23

The nerdy way to check your email

Be a nerd! check your email with command prompt!

First, open up the Microsoft telnet client by pressing start –>Run and type telnet. You should see a command line open up.  Type o and press enter.

Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Client Escape Character is ‘CTRL+]’ Microsoft Telnet>o ( to )

Jul 14

Tutorial: Make your own version of hello dolly

Here is how you create your own hello dolly plugin.

First, fill in the plugin details.

<?php Plugin Name: Hello Dolly Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hello-dolly/ Description: This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When …

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