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A Little Taste of Inspiration
Like all widely-used programming languages, PHP has the very useful ability to read data from, and write data to, files on the system. But the language doesn’t just stop there – PHP comes with a full-featured file-and-directory-manipulation API that allows you (among other things) to view and modify file attributes, read and list directory contents,…
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Everything Overloaded
A.C., a good friend, and I were conversing recently when the subject of information overload came up. Information overload is probably not a term i would have coined, nor is it something that i’d likely use– probably because most of the people who i’m in direct, conversational contact with could stand to add any information…
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OOP in PHP Primer: Get your First Taste of Classes, Constructors, and Methods
Are you a PHP programmer who is yet foreign to the concept of Object Oriented Programming? Are you looking for an article, or tutorial to recommend to a friend so he or she might become better acquainted with the OOP style? If so, I know a very nice little article which I recommend for getting the…
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The true test of a service: when it is relied upon
See Also: Browser Sidebar Panels : Web Developer Tools When it comes to web accessibility and web-standards references, such as the W3C Recommendations for example, i have to be among the most neurotic pack rats. Any time i find a web site which could be a design or development reference to lead me in the…
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the Worst Web Sites of 2006 / 2007
I thought it might be fun to list some of the worst‡ Web Sites of recent discovery. I hope you are entertained by the following list of disappointments‡. Why compile a list of disappointments? Because, when I viewed the items listed below, what I found may have been unexpected; may have initially produced a feeling…
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Windows XP – Open / Save File Dialog: Customized!
MyCustom File Dialogue – #2 in the recent top-discoveries Fix your open / save dialog by using TweakUI, a Windows PowerToy available at Microsoft dotCom. NOTE: Rumor has it that sometimes Tweak-UI is unavailable at the M$ resource, so you may want to check places like MajorGeeks, Softpedia, or just a simple Google Search, of…
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mod_perl: Installation Failure (however difficult to assess)
Lacking the knowledge previous to this day’s endeavor, in an ultimate attempt to develop ASP on an existing Apache2 installation, i researched the options and my searching pointed to – mod_perl. What I installed the file named Perl-5.8-win32-bin-0.10.exe , a rather complex, self-extracting, “automatic” installation process. I probably would have had more success had I…
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XSS Preparedness & a Friendly Programmer’s Advice
PHP Input Validation Flaw in Certain Error Pages as reported on Security Tracker dotCom, and other such news always raises my ears because I have been the victim of Cross Site Scripting myself. I have also been the victim of other hacks related to my own lack of security precautions, so tend to review alerts such as…
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