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Yahoo! Account Deleted; But I Do Miss Its News Aggregation

I decided to delete my Yahoo! account today, rather than on July 15, as previously noted.
It appears everyone has pretty much switched over to my new gmail address (at least, the non-spammers have made the switch), and in all honesty, I see no more reason to stick around on Yahoo!.
Well, that’s not entirely true. [...]

Goodbye To Yahoo! Answers: It’s Best We Part

Yahoo! suspended my Answers account today, for reasons they did not disclose but of which I am fairly certain.
I made the mistake a few weeks back of calling out a sock puppeteer via e-mail, after about a month of his using his puppets to vote down my answers and vote up his. I noted that [...]

The Simplest Ways To Do Image Rollover Effects: JavaScript And CSS-Only

A common question on Yahoo! Answers is how to do image rollover effects simply.
There are two ways to do so: With JavaScript, and via CSS alone. Of the two, I prefer the JavaScript method, as it doesn’t require marking up your code too much; but the CSS method is fine, too, and takes away [...]

Retaining Values In A Form Following PHP Postback And Clearing Form Values After Successful PHP Form Processing

Asked recently on Yahoo! Answers:
Re-post data to PHP form when invalid?
I was just wondering, if I have PHP validation on a field of a large form, say for example the e-mail isn’t an e-mail (I know how to check that) and it sets header location to ?error=1 it does all that fine, but the form [...]

Sorting Your MySQL Results Set In PHP Using jQuery (And A More Traditional Approach)

Recently asked at Yahoo! Answers:
Sort ORDER BY links for each COLUMN of MYSQL database in PHP page?
These are the links I am currently using but they are just on the bottom of the page int he middle of no where…
<p>Sort By:</p>
<p><a href=”address.php”>address</a></p>
<p><a href=”email.php”>email</a></p>
<p><a href=”name.php”>name</a></p>
<p><a href=”phone.php”>phone</a></p>
<p><a href=”tvprogram.php”>tvprogram</a></p>
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I currently have a form where users input their [...]

Meet The New Host, Same As The Old Host

Well, I gave DreamHost PS a try. And let me tell you, it works great.
So why is this blog back on my DreamHost shared account? A few reasons; mostly, there’s no payoff between the cost and the performance difference, at least for this blog.
I got in on DreamHost PS as part of a promotion that [...]