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CSS Background Without Causing Scrollbars
Quick note in case I spend as long as I did again. A Client had some clouds on the background of his photoshop file for his website. They were to be positioned in the top right corner with the leftmost tip aligned to the right of a central content section. I separated off the clouds as another div layer, specified the...
F_ck You. Pay Me.
To be honest I saw this on some Joomlaworks Blog who appropriately title it "A must see for professional webdesigners". If you're a developer relying on clients for your income, then at least watch some of this. March 2011 San Francisco, CreativeMornings (creativemornings.com) was Mike Monteiro, Design Director, and co...
Difference between two dates - the midnight hour
I might already have something similar to this but this deserves its own article. Why? Well try to search the web for a PHP/MySQL solution which suggests on how to count the hours between two times on the same date, when one of the hours is on the other side of the midnight hour... Now bear in mind the below is in Euro...
PHP & MySQL Search Engine
Do you hate sites that do not have a search feature? I do. I think it defeats the purpose of cramming information endlessly in cyberspace. So we want to give a search engine to our users. This sounds really simple, we could try: $search_term_esc = AddSlashes($search_term); $sql = "SELECT * FROM Content WHERE content_bo...
Developer's Checklist: Taking over a project
So I'm starting to get the impression that I no longer tender for brand new projects competing with time and cost in order to win the bids. Recently, more and more people have been asking if I can take over a project that has been abandoned by its developer. I've started writing this article because I find myself forge...
UTF8 Unicode PHP MySQL for International Characters
This is a note to myself but also to anyone out there who's spent as long as I did looking for a solution to this. Maybe it's just me but this is the scenario: Joomla works fine with international characters A Module Extension I wrote for Joomla! displayed funny characters. The Joomla! articles were displaying the corr...
Yesterday's time in PHP
Quick tip or note to self: How to get yesterday's date irrespective of date format or daylight savings time. $today=date("Y-m-d"); $yesterday = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m") , date("d") - 1, date("Y")));
Webdeveloper-Speak
I don't usually write an article on another site but I came across it and rather than just add it to my weblinks section, I thought I'd give it a little more credit. "Motive is a web design and development agency based in Wellington, New Zealand providing consultation, website design, development and usability evaluati...
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