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PHP View Utilities Code Debugger – A Wrapper For print_r function

/ / Programming & Coding

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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Mozilla Collusion Could Be A Godsend For Privacy Advocates – Is Google Adwords-Adsense In Jeopardy?

/ / Art & Design, Information Technology (IT), Personal Life, Programming & Coding, Writing & Publishing

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

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

/ / Programming & Coding

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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The Parable Of the Hijacked Thread:

/ / Information Technology (IT), Internet Culture, Writing & Publishing

The Parable Of the Hijacked Thread: One time after a town hall meeting, Kristóbal was asked by the people to explain how he viewed the new Tea Party movement.  Some in the audience claimed that the Tea Party was composed of uneducated racist bigots. Still others believed that the Tea Party was made of proud

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