If you spent hours trying to find a good solution to overlap images in HTML, this is your final solution. This doesn’t require CSS or Javascript. Only HTML. This is a tricky way to overlap images without using that annoying absolute CSS property misused. In fact if you use the position:absolute property, you will not…
Author: Edoardo
Add Font Awesome icons dynamically in Flutter apps
The font_awesome_flutter plugin is very easy to use and contains tons of beautiful icons. But, what if the icons are not known at compile time? I wrote a one-class Dart file that uses the Font Awesome plugin and allows to pick an icon at runtime. Using the naming convention of fontawesome.com you can include the…
Easy and ready-to-use alternative to Log4j
I wrote a one-class logger, lightweight and very easy to use. It can be a good alternative to Log4j for small projects or if you want to customize you logging experience. Features It’s a self-contained one-class logger No third party dependencies required Fully customizable It works with jar packages Different levels of logging Logs on…
How to install LaTeX package
Personally I use TeXstudio to create LaTeX documents and sometimes I need to install new packages. Usually, when you try to use a package that is not installed locally, this is the following error: The easiest way to install a new package (in this case the float package) is to use MiKTeX. First of all…
How to import ISO into VirtualBox
This post explains easily by images how to import a virtual machine iso file into VirtualBox. Start VirtualBox Open Virtual Media Manager Click on “Optical disks” tab Add disk image Select ISO ISO is added. Close the window New button Select name, os system, memory size and hard disk Select file location, hard disk file…
How to use custom fonts in HTML
This is intended to be just a simple example on how to use custom fonts in your website. First of all you have to download the desired font file and here is a short list of the most famous repositories: www.dafont.com www.dafontfree.net www.1001fonts.com www.fontsquirrel.com www.urbanfonts.com After you downloaded the zip you will find one or…
How to install custom fonts in html2pdf
Here is a short guide on how to install custom fonts in the famous html2pdf php tool. If you don’t know how to install or how to use it, please checkout my other post here. I hope this can be the final and easy guide to accomplish this task. First of all let’s download the…
[SOLVED] Flutter Android licenses exception
If you are here it means that you are facing a frustrating exception regarding Android licenses in Flutter. More specifically the exception occurs when you try to run the following command: and the output is something like this: The easiest fix I found is to install the Android SDK Command-line Tools. In Android Studio open…
How to install hplip on Ubuntu
Latest update: august 2022 for Ubuntu 22.04. and hplip version 3.22.6. If you are here, you probably tried to install hplip without success. Prerequisite: make sure you are using Python3.x running If you are using Python2.x you should switch to Python3. Pay attention to old software you are running with Python2…this operation may break something!…
Sortable list with jQuery (also on mobile)
This is a demo. Drag elements to reoder them. Demo page hereDownload zip here Video to show how this works on different platforms and devices (browser, mobile on browser, real Android device, simulated Android device): References: https://github.com/mjsarfatti/nestedSortable http://jsfiddle.net/xorivip215/fxd3tbea/ https://github.com/furf/jquery-ui-touch-punch