Windows active desktop is a feature that allows you to embed a browser window (viewport) on your actual desktop. Instead of a window form, it’s accessible anytime on the desktop yet never takes up any task bar spaces. Windows XP users can activate active desktop following these procedures. Basically you just right click on the …
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This is just that easy to do as picking up a dollar on the ground. You can, of course write your own function to parse a string that looks like a URL and return various parts such as the domain, directory, requested file and possible data fields. However, PHP has come with exactly the function …
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As opposed to best practices, we may as well take this as a collection of worst practices of PHP programming. I have been a PHP coder for 1 and a half years. Not an expert myself, but I learn as much as I can and try to code to the highest standard possible. Below are …
It’s easy to make a simple scraper script in PHP but it’s also easy for data-centric sites to detect and keep out suspiciously continued page accesses done in large amounts and a small period of time. There are usually 2 ways for a site to detect possible scraping activities. One is to make sure the …
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CSS style property z-index determines the stack order of an element overlapping with others. There might be times when you find it not working for you and element with a bigger z-index falls behind one who has a smaller one. Frustrating but why? First, make sure the elements who has z-index property also has position:relative …
As ugly as it can get, an image displayed in IE in dimensions other than its original physical sizes would look rugged. So how to smoothen scaled images in IE? An engineer at flickr revealed the secret: img { -ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic; } That’s it! Just add the rule to your stylesheet!
Well after reading the first part, I was a bit lost. What the hell is this guy talking about exactly? Yes, exponential growth it is, and we should all make sense out of it in our business endeavors wherever possible. Okay, it’s sweet but how? How is this concept going to help us? And what …
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Update: added 1 more rule. CSS is not hard to learn yet tricky to master. What differentiates a veteran from a bunch of rookies is scale. The C language isn’t that sophisticated to crack — though still need quite a few months to get through the core and be properly trained — but there’s apparently …
Webdings, Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3 are very interesting symbolic fonts shipped in all versions of MS Windows but not included in other OS and platforms such as Mac OS. All versions of Internet Explorer display them correctly in CSS typography but in other browsers you can’t expect them safe for text glyphs because …
The 10 web safe fonts, Arial, Impact, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Tahoma — ahhh, wait a minute, I can’t remember the last 2. Let me take a look at the 9 web safe fonts, ok, it’s Courier New and Arial Black. Tahoma isn’t included in the 9 browser safe …
Let’s use Lucida Grande for a change – 13 web safe fonts revisited Read More »
All successful entrepreneurs, wealthy people and academic geniuses agree that exponential growth is what it takes to be where they stand. What is exponential growth? Mathematically, it’s just a way of describing how something not only grows over time but the rate of growing itself increases in the process, reaching unbelievable mark at the end. …
Yes you can log into phpmyadmin, backup your database by simply using Export and recover it by using Import. However all lamp servers come with a max upload file size, limited by the smaller of upload_max_filesize and post_max_size while also restricted by php.ini configurations such as memory_limit and max_input_time. What if you’ve got a huge …
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The other day I was testing and playing with SimpleXML to process some XML documents when I came to a problem — I realized that I needed to delete a node before dumping the XML object to text. However if you are familiar with SimpleXML, it doesn’t come with a down right way to remove …
