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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It’s not the mistakes or failures themselves that you should be aware of. Everything is a bless including them which descend upon you for you to grow. Bad attitude rather than bad things is the driving force to your self-destruction. So what is the most dangerous mistake you could make in your career and business. …
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What does an alphabet have for us to style? It’s no more than a list of 26 single-letter items! Yep. But wait until you have seen this alphabet of 26 letters author index. Now do you want to know how to achieve that? I coded it quite a while back and it just occurred to …
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In HTML 4.01, you can directly change the size of table via HTML properties width and height instead of controlling them by CSS styles. Table Size The overall size of a table is determined by the width and height of it. For example, to set table width as 400 pixels and table height as 150 …
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A snippet from Kim Krause Berg: It may not be intended for me, my gender, my age, my eyesight or my interests. It may be perfect for who it is designed for and it’s my job to inquire about that. That’s the essence of the problem. Enough of so many self-crowned critics and experts think …
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There are plenty of freelancing jobs sites and outsourcing interactive platforms between service providers and clients now. Elance is probably the most renowned online freelance jobs brokerage firm. Why? Google tells me. 😉 Elance has the largest bunch of backlinks according to Google via query “link:elance.com”, over 2,400 as of now, the most prominent in …
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 is the Bible of web developers who are responsible for HTML templating and independent content authors who are eager to reach the biggest audience possible. However, if you think that’s just for the sake of that, accessibility, think again. WCAG is way more than just accessibility, it’s also the …
There used to be an HTML way to center align things such as texts, images or other contained elements. For the sake of semantic markup, let’s forget about it from here. CSS is the only correct way to align things such as texts and images center now. To center align a paragraph or an image, …
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Yeah, well, I know, I just wrote a quick post for those who don’t know how to align text left in HTML. Silly. Now comes a redundant one for those who don’t know how to align text right in HTML and CSS. [Someone from beyond the web page and monitor screen throws me a tomato: …
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Believe it or not, though this is rather basic in CSS, someone just poked on Gtalk to ask how he could align a paragraph left in HTML as he could in Word. Here goes a quick post for the solution: p {text-align:left;} /* a generic styling rule for all p tags to align inner text …
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Yeah, well, Google employee, who’s made famous by his SEO blog, Matt Cutts said in twitter a few days back: Google.co.jp PageRank is now ~5 instead of ~9. I expect that to remain for a while. Or maybe they (Google) are just tired of insanely unachievable PageRanks of themselves and did this for a bit …
On index or transitional pages, such as homepage or category pages of WordPress, you don’t want to show the full texts of your deep content pages yet but just a content snippet of the first few sentences or words as a summary with a read more link to the actual article. This is generally good …
There used to be a plugin to grab and display most recent blog posts from WordPress database. Well, while you still can use it to get recent posts and them shown on homepage or in sidebar, you can now conveniently add a recent post widget from the WordPress control panel => Appearance => Widgets if …
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