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5 Simple Ways Programmers and Designers Should Give Back
The best online occupation-related community is no doubt the programming / design community. Our community works endlessly to help others through programming issues, create open source software for all to use freely, and foundations are created to keep pushing the web forward.One issue I see in...
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Weekend Links II – Why Your Code Sucks, JavaScript’s Name, Stupid Programmer Tricks, Solitaire
Labor Day is a link day, right?Why Your Code SucksBold phrase for someone who doesn't know your code? This article discusses the situations in which your code may, in fact, suck.http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=71730Javascript Needs A New NameJavascript is a pretty inaccurate name for a...
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Weekend Links – CSS Fonts, YAML CSS Framework, CompressorRater, PHP Image Cloud, Who’s Online
Back to school links!CSS @ Ten: The Next Big ThingWhat? There's more than just Verdana? Håkon Wium Lie discusses the use of TrueType fonts in CSS.http://alistapart.com/articles/cssattenYAML The CSS FrameworkYAML is a CSS framework to help programmers and designers to create multicolumn layouts.
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PHP Optimization – Using A Timer To Benchmark Code And Increase Speed
One of the best parts about being a programmer is that there's seemingly always a better way to do things. A simple code tweak can drastically improve the execution time of your web application. The faster your application executes the quicker you release precious server resources.The...
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Adios Means Goodbye – Browser 301 Redirects In All Languages
Browser redirects, especially 301 "permanent" redirects, are essential to all good web applications. Regardless of language, browser redirects can: provide safe URL forwarding to gather GET and POST variables and process them without risking data and processing integrity by a browser refresh send users and search engine...
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Fixing IIS & PHP Variables – Set $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] Yourself
About 8 months into my programming career I needed to code a content management system (CMS). This was quite a challenge so early into my professional journey but I was up to it. The front-end was the easiest part of the project -- a...
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Advanced CSS – Using A Reset.css File To Gain Complete Control
It took me about a year to feel as though I completely owned cascading style sheets. For a language (yes, it IS a language) with simple syntax, CSS optimization techniques can take quite a while to learn. Formulating your style sheets to do exactly...
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6 Reasons Why IE6 Must Die
Internet Explorer 6, released on August 27, 2001, was a package of problems right from the start. Within a year of release, Microsoft silently declared that IE6 would not make enough money for them to continue supporting. The result has been numerous security problems...
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PHP Shorthand If/Else Using Ternary Operators (?:)
An essential part of programming is evaluating conditions using if/else and switch/case statements. If / Else statements are easy to code and global to all languages. If / Else statements are great but they can be too long.I preach a lot about using shorthand...
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Weekend Links – jQuery 1.4, CSS Images, Printing Techniques, Converting to CSS, Cross-Browser Coding
Not the most notable week in programming news, but why not share what's out there?jQuery 1.4 Released: Faster, More Tests, Ready for 1.2I don't use jQuery but I know that the community is strong and there are a lot of great scripts out there. WordPress...
