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Line Breaks: More than a Handfull
See also: Cutting Lines If you have any experience in programming, or even in simply writing HTML markup, you have probably come across the need to use a specified Line Break Control Character. It can be confusing as to when and where one should be used over the other. ASCII(1) One of the all-time-most-common standards…
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Share it all you Want… Just use the GPL!
Useful information coming soon… What is the best version of; way to use the GPL on one’s personal / private authored documents? What is the best version of; way to use the GPL on applicable documents authored for commercial use? — or does it not apply here?
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How does the other half live?
I’m not one who typically cares anything about whether Macromedia Flash is or is not used in a web site. As someone who desires a comprehensive know-how, and wherewithal in terms of internet and web design and development technology, i’m not proud to say that I don’t know the details about what’s coming out of…
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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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Unlikely Reference for Web Standards Resources
While looking for one of my particular favored HTML entities references, it occurred to me that www.bigbaer.com, as an Urban Music magazine might otherwise be an unlikely resource for web developers, but it happens to have a very nice section on web standards, accessibility, and in particular, a very nicely formatted HTML entities reference– available…
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PHP Variable Handling: isset() and empty()
i’ve probably learned more important and practical information about PHP development from phpbuilder dot com than anywhere else. that’s not to say that other resources aren’t as good, i’m just saying that, when it came down to trying my first few bits of conditional logic, or my first run-in with header(), PHPBuilder.com happens to be where i’ve learned much of…
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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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More Random Links Collected…
In addition to the Primary Bookmarks Page, this “Random Links” page is meant to be a place to jot down bookmarks at those moments when there’s not necessarily time for commentary, but the reference material is too good to go w/out taking a second look again at a later day. If I am able to categorize it…
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Paamayim Nekudotayim: Straying from Convention with Hebrew
What can be said for the PHP authors who chose to use the term Paamayim Nekudotayim to describe one of the programming language’s operators? More often than not, when we of the “Western Civilization” need to come up with a term to describe something, such as a new Mathematical or Algebraic Forumla, an element of…