PROBLEM: I have recently determined through trial and error and process of elimination that Zemanta is responsible for adding extraneous HTML comments to my pre-formatted (with “pre” tags) PHP code that I have placed between “sourcecode” tags to activate WordPress.com’s built in programming code syntax highlighting. Here is a screenshot (fig 1.) that demonstrates the […]
Greetings folks. Tonight I’m studying on how to create a PHP Object-Oriented MySQL database connection class. This will be reusable and able to be implemented in any database driven web application built with PHP & MySQL. It uses the ActiveRecord and Singleton design patterns. I’m currently following this YouTube tutorial: Using OOP PHP to select,
Greetings folks. If you’ve ever gotten tired of having to type: [sourcecode language=”php” htmlscript=”true”] echo "<pre>"; print_r($some_var); echo "</pre>"; [/sourcecode] you are going to love the little debugger class I built. This is a very simple, basic class which doesn’t use patterns or anything fancy. Actually, it may indeed use patterns that I’m not familiar
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I’ve spent the last 2 hours reading an interesting bug report/forum thread about how executing commands which require quotes and variables in PowerShell is difficult (this was originally posted on Microsoft Connect, which no longer exists; replaced with archive.org link). I’m trying to understand how to properly quote commands with parameters and interpolated paths so
Mozilla unveiled a new privacy add-on called Collusion last Wednesday (February 29). Developed by Mozilla’s in-house programmers, and backed by the Ford Foundation, Collusion enables you to se a visual relationship map of all the advertisers and entities who are tracking your online activity, in real-time. Gary Kovacs, (CEO of Mozilla), had this to say
Question: How can I make boxes and div’s with rounded corners? Answer: CSS3 is the first version to have built-in rounded rectangle commands. The css property that addresses is this: border-radius It’s usage is: border-radius: 15px; Fairly simple and straight-forward; the higher the number the deeper the corner rounding. If you have an older browser
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Hi folks, I’ve been receiving some tech questions lately so I decided I’d start answering them on the blog so others can benefit as well. Our next question is from Nadine in Houston, TX: Question: How do I schedule multiple posts in WordPress.com? For instance, let’s say I want to make a queue or stack
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Here are two excellent jQuery plugin tutorials. My goal by posting these two links is to try to save you guys some time in searching through all the other links for the right one. Here you go: Tutorial Creating a jQuery plugin – DevHeart A Really Simple jQuery Plugin Tutorial Date Published: 2012-03-02 Date Updated:
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Brad Pitt and his “Make It Right” foundation are doing amazing things for Katrina victims! Originally published: 02/29/2012 In 2007. Hollywood actor Brad Pitt put up $5 million of his own money and raised another $12M to help build new houses for several victims of hurricane Katrina, residing in the lower 9th ward of New
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tfW88-lp_A&w=560&h=315] Date Published: 2012-02-29 Date Updated: 2022-09-05
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