One Way or Another!

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I recently dusted off an old tome among my PHP books,

Integers and Relativity in PHP

What is universally true about integers in PHP is that they constitute whole numbers and their representations include a range of formats, such as hexadecimal, decimal, octal and even binary since PHP5.4. Surprisingly,

Hard-drive Failure

I had a bit of a scare recently when I turned my computer on after it had endured hot weather the day before without any air conditioning.

Hopscotch

by Decently Exposed

Today I’m going to play a sort of hopscotch on the computer

CMMI and CSS Hacks vs Conditional Comments

For today’s post I thought it might be instructive to enlighten web developers and others with regard to a subject that we rarely if ever think about,

It’s Gray!

Imagine you’re anticipating receiving an important email and when you open it up the background is gray — dark gray to be precise.

Changing MSIE’s View-Source Default Editor

As, a PHP Developer, what do you do if you need to view the HTML source for a webpage? You could write a program using PHP’s file_get_contents() but sometimes you just want the convenience of manually viewing the source by issuing some quick keyboard or mouse commands to the browser. Normally, when you do so with MS Internet Explorer (MSIE) browser, you can expect that action to result in Notepad launching and revealing the HTML source code. That’s true most of the time.

XML to JSON with PHP

In a previous post, Buzz Words, I used PHP to JSON-encode some XML contained within a couple of SimpleXML elements. In this post, we are going to delve more deeply into this issue of converting XML to JSON

Creating Images Fast and Easy on Windows

I have yet to invest in a full-fledged graphics software package like Adobe PhotoShop as I’ve always been far more interested in programming than creating images. Yet there are times when you may need to create an image fast.