Author Archives: Marko

Is the HP ASE - Cloud Architect V2 Certification Right for You?

Are you interested in certifying your knowledge of the newest technologies? If so, the HP ASE - Cloud Architect V2 certification might be right for you. Earning this certification tells potential employers that you are able to specify and architect multiple cloud services based on converged infrastructure. It also tells future employers that you are comfortable with using HP Converged Cloud, Cloud Service Automation (CSA) 3.0, HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.1, HP Insight Management software 7.1, and HP Cloud Reference Architecture.

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Adding GeSHi/WP-Syntax compatible pre HTML tag button to WordPress Quicktags Javascript editor

Wordpress Logo BlueIf you're anything like me your blog is probably full of code snippets and you're using WordPress Quicktags editor to enter your posts content. You're also using GeSHi compatible syntax highliter like WP-Syntax to make your code snippets more readable.

In this article I'll give you Javascript and PHP code I've created to add GeSHi compatible pre button to my blog's Quicktags editor toolbar on both frontend and backend.

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PHP function for adding admin menu separator inside WordPress backend

WordPress admin menu separatorOften your WordPress plugin or theme adds admin submenu inside WordPress admin interface using add_menu_page() functions on admin_menu hook or using WordPress Settings API. When your code adds multiple submenu items wouldn't it be nice to create section on admin menu to reduce clutter? Unfortunately WordPress currently doesn't support adding admin menu separators so you must do it manually by filtering $menu global variable. Here's function for doing that together with an example that should demonstrate it's use.

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Install Oracle (Sun) Java JRE or JDK 7 on Debian, Ubuntu and LinuxMint

Java LogoIn one of my previous articles I've dealt with creating Oracle (Sun) Java 6 packages for your favorite Debian based distro. Since Oracle Java 7 has been out for a while now and it's code has matured to the point of OpenJDK 7 being default in recent Linux distributions, it seems reasonable to upgrade. In this article I'll show you how to create Oracle (Sun) Java JRE and JDK 7 packages using Janusz Dziemidowicz packaging work from Java 7 binary files you have downloaded your self.

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