Its been a while since my last post. More like a couple of years, time does fly. I am returning to blogging but this is going to be more of a personal blog related to my various hobbies and geeky activities (don’t worry there is still going to be plenty of coding and developments). I
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There is a range of fancy stuff you can do with HTML and CSS but a lot of developers are not aware of the little tricks you can do with CSS which results in developers using alternatives such as JavaScript or PHP when CSS can achieve the same results, sometimes even better as its less
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Internet Explorer (IE) also known to some as Internet Exploder or the worst browser on the internet causes headaches for a lot of us developers. IE has what I would call a lack of tools or features, IE7 lacks the abilities to show images with a alpha channel which is something we take for granted
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A simple function to easily process a website or file and return an array of all the URLs found. The main purpose I created this was to make it easy to process “Directory Listings Pages” which is a page which shows all the files and folders in a websites directory if there inst a default/index
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Comparing two bits of data in PHP is quite simple but there are special occasions when a simple comparison of data needs to be slightly different. One of the common issues is comparing float numbers, a common mistake is comparing two float numbers the same way in which you would compare two integers or two
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Screen is useful tool but it does have some slight bugs such as when you use the SU command to switch to another user and attempt to use screen you will most probably receive a error message similar to the following.
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Normally if a visitor requests a file or folder which doesn’t exist your web server will respond with a 404 file not found error message, this isn’t the best looking error message and so it’s common to setup a redirect so instead of the web server showing the default page you can use a custom
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Optimization is a key part of any website we need to keep it loading quickly for the sake of keeping visitors and also for lowering server stress. With internet connections becoming faster most developers skip optimization but mobile broadband and phones are growing rapidly which still have a relatively slow connection when compared to the
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Sometimes as a web developer I have to capitalise the first letter of each word normally for title and header tags but I don’t want to have to sit there manually capitalising each letter. HTML and CSS don’t have a native feature which allows you to quickly capitalise the first letter automatically so we have
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JavaScript is a powerful tool for a website but to extend the capabilities and functionality extra libraries can be included, the most commonly used libraries are jQuery and Prototype. Normally a website will choose either of these libraries but sometimes both libraries are required, if this is the case a small change needs to be
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