As we all know, HTML tables have a way to distinguish between columns and groups of them to do things about them and that is the COL tag and the COLGROUP tag. They pretty much have exactly the same set of available attributes – they are almost identical except for the names they are born …
All web hosting servers with SSH access enable you to tunnel the sessions so that your local computer can act like a socks proxy. For web hosting users, browsing anonymously has never been so easy. There’s a detailed step by step tutorial for turning your web host into a socks5 proxy server. Basically, you use …
Authored by Squidspot, this would make a great poster for fellow web designers and typography lovers!
So lots of people are complaining about: GoDaddy barricading domain transfers by denying transfer requests on domains which have recently been modified in contact information (for the last 60 days). Their poor security features (no even security questions when modifying name servers or contact information) and high potential to lose premium domains. Yeah, they suck. …
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What is HTTP in all the web site URLs / web page addresses you see everywhere online? HTTP Explained: Just like people communicate with each other following certain protocols, HTTP is the protocol between the client (your computer using web browsers) and the server (web server serving web pages and similar online resources). So what …
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Oh my Google! My Googleness! May Google be with you! Holy Google! Google bless us all! For the sake of Google, write a comment before you take your leave! lol 😀
As a result of the failure of IE (IE6 and IE7) browsers to implement the border-spacing CSS property for HTML tables. The mere CSS rules below: border-spacing:2px; border-collapse:separate; /* border-spacing will be ignored should border-collapse:collapse;*/ Have no effect of widening the cells distance on IE. To enable border spacing and cells gap, you will not …
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Easier than it appears. Just create a new table and import all those rows and records random selected and ordered by the RAND() SQL function: CREATE TABLE new_table SELECT * FROM old_table ORDER BY RAND() Of if you have created a table identical to the structure of the old one, use INSERT INTO instead: INSERT …
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With PHP and MySQL, you may fulfill the same task by selecting all the rows into an array and choosing a random index with php function array_rand or mt_rand (better) but that would be all big overhead to do as you have to first read in the entire table. The correct way is to get …
Let’s start by asking ourselves this question: How much do we want to do with our life? Or how much are you eager to achieve in a single life time? The disparity of magnitudes of achievement is tremendous among different people. While a few may create billions worth of wealth, majority may or may not …
A rather evocative bit of infographic, though a little bit too abstract. Makes one wonder how people 1000 years from now would see the technology world we are right now.
Kaizen is the Japanese saying of continuous advancement. In Chinese, it roughly resembles one word: 改善. Make a decision on what to do, focus your time and keep refining it. Rome is not built in one day and Kaizen is the way to create an Empire. Takes a long time but the results will be …
I need to think, rethink and think it all over again about what I want happen in my career and business endeavors. Is it money? Not rightly so but you can say that. Is it happiness? Not ultimately. Is it recognition? I don’t care — maybe a little, as I’m young and ambitious. Is it …
I generate, oh no, I mean PHP generates the PDF version of all the blog posts I have here by this library, but I think this one‘s a lot easier! Giving it a try sometime later, thanks Dan for the find! Yeah, yeah, I know I know, I could have posted this to twitter by …
phpBB is pretty much the best php forum software out there that is free, and comes the first choice of many webmasters. However, after a few weeks of first installation, many complain that spam bots start to overwhelm their forums, flooding with automated spam registrations and spam posts. Unfortunately, that is generally because: phpBB disables …
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To get the last character of a string in PHP, you need a combination of the functions of substr() and strlen(). For example, you need to get the last digit of a date string such as ‘Feb. 3’ or ‘Aug. 14’ to determine whether the trailing of the date will be ‘st’, ‘nd’, ‘rd’ or …
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You know, the plural of forum should at all be fora instead of forums. Data is the plural of datum, but have you seen any datums? Ahha, here’s a reason.
You can literally block any visitor including search engines and secure the data or information you have on your website by the help of .htaccess Deny From All. A similar solution is to have a robots.txt, majorly for search engines. To disallow all search engine visits and stop the any spider or crawler, create a …
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” If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. “ – Edsger Dijkstra ” Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don’t do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet. “ – Michael A. Jackson ” The best method for accelerating a computer …
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As if there’s an offline one to check whether a domain is available or not. 😉 Psychic Whois is it. It’s the best domain availability checking tool I know so far. AJAX powered, it instantly checks whether a domain is available for registration after you have typed the primary part by listing all 6 popular …
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