The Internet is an amazing resource for learning new subjects, gathering helpful tips, and just generally wasting the day away. But it’s dependent upon contributions from companies and individuals to make it a worthwhile resource, and new studies into online participation have come upon the “1% Rule” — that is, only about 1% of online [...]
Read PostA couple of years back, XHTML became the big new buzzword for webdevelopers and everyone (myself included) jumped on the bandwagon, converting all of their pages from HTML 4.01. However, what we didn’t realize at the time was that we were being lied to. And as a result, most everyone is still using it incorrectly. [...]
Read PostRemember going crazy at that party back in college (the one where you spent half the night without any pants), only to later discover that pictures of your drunken glory had found their way to the Internet? Well, guess what — the company you just applied to also found those pictures, and suddenly you’re no [...]
Read PostLots of people swear by Smarty or any one of a number of template engines out there. However, I’m a bit stubborn, and like to reinvent the wheel. After all, PHP really is a template engine in and of itself. So I’ve been fighting with writing a template wrapper, and I had a pretty decent [...]
Read PostHow many times have you had a bunch of files that you wanted to change the extension on? And all you really want to do is make mv work differently: mv *.jpeg *.jpg Well, if you’re on a Linux, Unix, or Mac box, you’re in luck – this is easy to achieve. All you need [...]
Read PostIn yet another milestone for both standards-compliance fans and anti-Microsoft groups (which admittedly share a similar user base), the W3Counter puts the Firefox browser at a 25% overall share. Microsoft Internet Explorer (er, Windows Internet Explorer) still maintains a commanding 67% share, but considering its 95% monopoly on browsers just two years ago, IE’s decline [...]
Read PostWhat if you could buy server storage and processor power like you buy electricity from the power company? How about if you could buy a more powerful machine and migrate your data over without any interruption of service? What if you could stamp out a copy of a running server with the press of a [...]
Read PostOh, man. This was a toughie. What follows is an account of how to deal intelligently with foreign characters and data entry in PHP/MySQL. So I’m working on a site, and realize that I need to handle foreign names within content. No fun. So I change my MySQL table to use utf8_general_ci, instead of ye [...]
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