7th August 2010, 14:55
Test Website Layouts
Website visitors browse with many different screen resolutions, largely determined by the size of their monitor. You should test your website’s layout to make sure that it doesn’t break of look wrong when viewed using the most common screen resolutions.
So how do you test that? Change your own screen resolution a handful of times to see what happens? There is an easier way, thanks to a little piece of JavaScript!
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29th July 2010, 14:21
MySQL Tables Can Crash!
I didn’t know until it happened to me recently, but MySQL tables can crash. When one of my tables crashed the first I knew about it was when I tried to browse it using phpMyAdmin and received an error message.
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20th July 2010, 14:02
Ever wanted to test a regex (regular expression) quickly and easily? Now you can!
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20th July 2010, 08:55
Microsoft Word .docx Problem
As of Word 2007, Microsoft Office introduced a new file format (and extension) for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Prior to this, Word documents had the .doc extension, but new documents end in .docx. This can be a problem if you have a version of Microsoft Word prior to 2007, as there is no support for the new .docx format, and if someone send you a file in this format, you can’t open it!
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15th July 2010, 14:04
Ever had trouble dropping onto a new line in Excel? I had tried all sorts of ways to insert a new line into an Excel spreadsheet without success.
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26th March 2010, 23:05
The Problem
Sending email using PHP on a Windows IIS server is not as simple as it is when using a Linux server. On a typical setup the mail() function probably won’t work without some tweaking.
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16th February 2010, 23:09
WordPress is a great piece of blogging software. With very little experience you can have your own blog set up within minutes. However, WordPress does have its faults. One common complaint is that WordPress is slow, and gets slower as more posts are added. Fear not, because help is at hand! One simple change to your .htaccess file can optimise WordPress and speed your blog up dramatically.
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25th January 2010, 22:01
The Goal
If you have some ASP pages that you want redirecting to new URLs with the correct “301 Moved Permanently” status, this simple solution is easy to implement.
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24th January 2010, 20:27
MySQL Functions
MySQL can do far more than just insert, update and select data. In fact the world’s most popular open source database has a whole host of incredibly useful functions built in that you might never know about until you find one day that you need them – and then you wonder how you coped without them!
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22nd January 2010, 23:38
Silent Attacks
Your web server may be ticking over nicely and everything looks fine and dandy. However, unbeknownst to you your server could be under constant attack by hackers! How can you find out if this is happening? One of the first things to check is your SSH log.
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