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    Backup Your MySQL Database Using PHP

    One of the most important tasks any developer needs to do often is back up their MySQL database. In many cases, the database is what drives most of the site. While most web hosts do a daily backup of a customer's database, relying on...

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    Same Site, New Theme

    Hello faithful subscribers, I've posted a new davidwalsh.name theme. Let me know your thoughts. I'm not a designer but I think this is a bit better than the last "design." I still have some tweaks to make but I think it's set enough now...

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    Retrieve DNS Records with Dig

    One of the most difficult parts of my job is managing DNS settings. It's not that DNS is a particularly difficult thing to manage, but it's somewhat foreign to me because they don't teach it in school and there are huge consequences for messing things...

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    Color Palette Generator Using jQuery

    As I continue to learn jQuery, I think it's important that I begin by porting over scripts I've created using MooTools. One of those scripts is my Color Palette Generator script, which debuted on Eric Wendelin's blog. For those of you that...

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    dwClickable:  Entire Block Clickable Using MooTools 1.2

    I recently received an email from a reader who was really impressed with Block Clickable, a jQuery script that took the link within a list item and made the entire list item clickable. I thought it was a neat script so I...

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    Thoughts on My First jQuery Experience

    Yesterday I debuted my first jQuery script/plugin: dwImageProtector. As a MooTools fanatic, I wasn't sure what to expect from this first jQuery experience. Let me share a few thoughts on the experience. Porting over the original Moo class didn't take very long.

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    dwImageProtector Plugin for jQuery

    I've always been curious about the jQuery JavaScript library. jQuery has captured the hearts of web designers and developers everywhere and I've always wondered why. I've been told it's easy, which is probably why designers were so quick to adopt it NOT that designers...

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    Weekend Links – mooSlide, Spam-Proof Email Links, JSMiner, MooScroll, Twitter

    mooSlide Revamp for MooTools 1.2 mooSlide is a customizable MooTools-based slider that pops into the page whenever and wherever you'd like. Potentially very useful -- just make sure you aren't covering a bunch of content up (like the demo). http://www.artviper.net/test/mooSlide2/index.html Spam-Proof Email Links MooTools core developer...

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    Download A File and wget

    Using the cURL package isn't the only way to download a file. You can also use the wget command to download any URL. The Bash Script I'm guessing that wget and cURL aren't the only ways to download a file, but these are two easy ways...

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    I’ve Finally Caved:  Twitter

    I've been holding off on Twitter because I see how obsessed people get with it. Some people post every few minutes...WTF? That said, I've let my gaurd down and become a Twitterer. If you care to, you can follow me at: http://twitter.com/davidwalshblog I wont...