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Betcha Didn’t Know… W3C HTML Spec: 17.6.1
the W3C HTML 4.01 Specification: Forms in HTML documents 17.6.1 Pre-selected options Having not known this little bit of HTML correctness before stumbling upon it while referencing something else this evening, I would like to share it so that you may benefit from the knowledge (or I may recall on a later date). Please note…
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need to increase the height of a layout column <div> ?
For about a year now, the stylistic quality of my own original html compositions has been handled by the incredibly versatile stylistic design, and layout options afforded by Cascading Stylesheets (though it seems much longer than that!). A proponent of universally accessible design, and advocate of web standards, valid, logically structured XHTML and CSS code,…
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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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CSS Level 2
The @import rule
W3C RecommendationThe following is an excerpt from the W3C Recommendation, CSS Level 2 Working Draft as presented in Rijk’s Panelizer, an educational resource panel available for the Opera Browser User Agent (as of Opera 8, and probably earlier as well). I have taken the liberty to paraphrase, and re-structure some of the original text (which i appropriated directly…
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MySQL SET Data Type
The following is an excerpt from an article i have referenced numerous times myself from the original source at MySQL : AB (the official MySQL developer zone, located at http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/). The SET datatype is kind of like an ENUM, except there’s an option to pick groups of items as a reply, instead of only one…
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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…
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Best FREE Source-Code Editor?
(Edited: 04.14.06 [orig entry 03.18.06]) (modified timestamp until i can write a better article– this is sort of “tucked away” for now, but potentially useful, so i didn’t want to totally un-publish it) EditPad Pro vs. Notepad++ This is a really tough call. From what I know of these editors, considering my relative inexperience w/…
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