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Building A PHP Database Connection Class From Scratch (using Singleton & ActiveRecord patterns)

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, […]

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Q & A: How To Make Div’s With Rounded Corners In CSS?

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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Professional Development Journal: 2012-02-27

Just a quick update:  Last night I began and completed through Chapter 3, Lynda.com‘s WordPress 3 Essential Training.  Total time was about 3 hours.  Tonight, my goal is to finish at least another 3 chapters.  My goal is to finish this course by the end of the week! 🙂 Date Published: 2012-02-28 Date Updated: 2022-09-05

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How To Make Ten Million Dollars In Gold With Photoshop!

2012.02.12 Hey guys.  Welcome back!  Tonight I just want to real quickly talk about a cool tutorial I found on YouTube today.  I was searching for a “Gold Text” effect Photoshop Tutorial when I came across this one from IceflowStudios: Photoshop: GOLD Bling! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87CGbLRpHoo One thing I liked about it from the git-go was he

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Excel 2003 – Change Cell Color Without VBA, Using Conditional Formatting.

2012.02.10 (NOTE: This article is currently just a stub … ) So, this is what I was up to tonight.  I researched and learned the following techniques: Excel data validation list from named range in another worksheet Build drop-down menu in Excel How to delete duplicate rows using in-place filtering Keyboard shortcut for entering and opening

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Lynda.com PHP MySQL WAMP Project: Widget Corp – Progress Update – 2012.02.07

Hello folks.  I’ve been doing a Lynda.com tutorial called PHP With MySQL Essential Training.  I’ve actually been doing aboutg 2-8 hours per week of the multiple, sequential lessons that are involved in this excellent hands-on tutorial for about a month now. At this point, I have completed all the basic PHP and MySQL material, and

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How Long Does It Really Take To Create and Finish A New Blog Post?

01/22/12 I don’t  know about everyone else, but it takes me either all day or all week.  For instance, I have a journal-type post for one of my blogs (rawlifewizard)that was pre-rough-drafted/conceptualized (I’m not really sure what the academic term is for this) on Jan 15th (exactly a week ago).  But, because I work a

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Is DropBox a good alternative for a WordPress CDN (image hosting site)?

Image via CrunchBase Is DropBox a good alternative for a WordPress CDN (image hosting site)? 11/15/11 10:06 PM So, tonight I’m seeking a better FREE solution for hosting my images for blogging purposes.  Up until now I have always used Photobucket, but recently I have experienced some issues with some of my images not showing

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