Version Control For HTML

December 6th, 2011

I’m introducing version control to our web development projects. We already have a version tracking system in place for our back end processing, which is written in RPG IV on the iseries, but up to now there was no tracking on “web objects&…

PHP Include Path

June 23rd, 2011

A common way for PHP coders to organise their include files is to put them in a separate folder – called ‘includes’, for example.
Suppose that you have a file called connection.php that contains your database connectivity details…

Basic MySQL Setup

January 10th, 2011

Suppose you’ve downloaded and installed wampserver on your local Windows machine and want to start manipulating MySQL databases. What now?
First of all you need to know where on your hard drive all the MySQL stuff is. I installed wampserver on m…

Books On jQuery

January 7th, 2011

I started learning jQuery a couple of days ago, and I’m doing pretty well if I say so myself. The jQuery I’ve seen so far hasĀ  been straightforward and quite intuitive. The book I was following was the jQuery Cookbook, but it got a little bit…

jQuery – Descendants And Children

January 7th, 2011

The distinction between the child of a particular element and a descendant of an element isn’t unique to jQuery. The same concepts are used in CSS too. For those who are new to this, and as a recap for all the experts out there, here is the definition…

Selecting Elements In jQuery

January 6th, 2011

The default way of selecting an element in jQuery is as follows:

jQuery('p')

This selects all the elements on the page, to do with as you please. If some paragraphs have a class of “emphasis”, you can select those with the filter() method li

Learning jQuery

January 6th, 2011

The time has come to learn jQuery!
Here, you can download jQuery. Scroll down to the “Current Release” bit, right click on the download link and select “save as”. Save it to a folder called “jquery”. Make sure yo…

Quoting Software Estimates To Customers

November 10th, 2010

Quite often software developers areĀ  required to provide estimates of how long it will take them to create a new piece of software or modify existing software. This estimate rarely matches the actual time it takes to complete the project, and there is…

View File Extensions In Windows 7

November 22nd, 2009

By default, Windows 7 hides your file extensions. If, like me, you get a little twitchy if you can’t see this information, then you’ll want to change your setup pretty quickly. To view files extensions in Windows 7, do the following:

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PHP Redirect For Affiliates

November 17th, 2009

The problem: you, as a scurrilous affiliate marketer, have a website with a sales page pushing a particular product. People link to your page to get the product but your sales page then “sells them” again… and links to the merchant’s