Adding a Facebook Like Box on a website is kind of becoming the norm in my trade nowadays. I do not know about you but I am normally having trouble getting rid of the borders or the iframe that you require. These borders normally have a bad look in a rounded corners styled module in Joomla! and other popular content management systems.

This tutorial will show you how to hide the border around the Facebook Like Box. It takes advantage of negative margins and the overflow property of CSS to hide the border of the Facebook Like Box under a container div.

[UPDATE]

I compiled below changes into an easily installable Joomla module. So, find below a download link to the module for Joomla 1.7/2.5

Download JA Facebook Like Box Module with Remove Border Tweaks

For some reason, linking to an article in Joomla! seems like something that should be obvious but surprisingly it is not. I have been approached quite a number of times to help people link their Custom HTML modules to an article in Joomla! and normally the trouble comes in when for whatever reason, the article to be linked does not have a menu item on the front end of the site, so one cannot go and copy the article link. I did some research, trying to find easy ways of doing this said linking, and I have come up with some two solutions, which I think should work for anybody in this predicament. So, here we go.

So today, via Facebook, I land on a great Andriod app! PesaDroid! Well, all it does is give you a nice view of all your M-Pesa transactions, taking data form the messages on the phone. I have no doubt that the developers of the app worked quite hard on it and it is a wonderful app but my God, their website! Pesadroid.com is not a site to visit. It has put a new benchmark on just how crappy a site can be. I mean, these guys should have just stuck to giving people the android market link coz at least there, they can leverage the look of the marketplace. Their one page site is just something that should be taken off the net! Like immediately! Trust me, if I had seen their site before installing the app, I would not have installed it coz their site is just a joke!

4294967296 bytes or random access memory! In other words, 4GB of RAM. That is the amount of volatile memory I have on this here my computer. Now, when Firefox, for some reason, takes up 1.5gig with only two tabs open, it gets me wondering…WHAT THE HELL IS ITS PROBLEM!

I did some googling and yes, Firefox is a memory hog. A major one. I am using the latest version, 10 I think (I sort of lost track since Firefox moved their versioning system to match Google’s Chrome and just churn out major version releases every 2 days…) and despite them saying several times in there ChangeLogs that they have fixed the memory leaks in the app, and blaming most of the leaks on their cool COOL add-ons, still no respite in the memory area. I even considered using Chrome as my default browser, but until Chrome catches up with Firefox with addons (or extensions as they call them) like DownThemAll, NoScript and FoxyProxy, Firefox it is.

I love neat and useful gadgets. On my wish list is the iRobot Roomba robot that can clean floors while I am away at work but who am I kidding. TIA (this is Africa) and the dust in my neighborhood will make the motors in that thing pack up in one week max. My uneven floor wont help much either. Anyhow, I do own dust averse clever gadgets though, and this one I love. It’s my Kindle!

It’s a second gen Kindle Keyboard (curses all you Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire owners) but it works like a charm and for as long as it keeps doing so (or somehow gets lost), Amazon can keep releasing newer ones – I will not be deterred to buy another one. Though the $79 ad supported Kindle is quite tempting.

As a web developer, one of the worst things that can ever happen to you are woken up in the middle of the night by an aggravated client whose site you manage, and have him tell you that his site has been hacked and there is a black Mario smiling back instead of the crisp and clean home page your worked tirelessly to perfect. To make matters worse, you try login to the admin side of the Joomla! installation and your password does not work anymore! If your are really unlucky and the hacker wanted to finish you off, you find your database gone! (This has actually happened to me! Damn you silly Iranians! Thank God for backups!).