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 “w…

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 connectiv…

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 wam…

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 has  been straightforward and quite intuitive. The book I was following was the jQuery Cookbook, but it got…

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…

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

jQuery('p')
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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

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”.…

Quite often software developers are  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,…

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 follo…

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 mercha