It’s an awful thing, waiting for a question at Yahoo! Answers that would be fun to discuss as a blog entry. There is an awful lot of chaff to be sorted before one finds such wheat, and even then, sometimes the supposed grains turn out to be mouse turds. Consider the following: How would this [...]
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How To Take A Screen Shot: Windows, Mac OS X And Linux
If you need to capture an image of your screen so that you can post it to the Web, here’s how: Windows Hold down the Alt key and press the Print Screen key. On most desktop PC keyboards, Print Screen is on the top row of keys, to the right of the F12 key. Open [...]
A Simple Page Click Count System Using PHP And MySQL
Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers: Click Counter in Dreamweaver? I am looking to create a hit counter so I can have the top ten clicked stories on my website. I have a separate field for the count but i need the code to update the field +1. This isn’t something you can do with Dreamweaver’s [...]
PHP’s session_register() And The Fine Art Of Variable Poisoning
Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers: Using session_register() to register objects? I’ve just started with OOP, and I’m making an app that uses objects that need to retain their data. Looking for an answer to this, I’ve discovered serialization. Whenever I go to a tutorial page about it, they always seem to mention the use of [...]
Dynamically Assigning XSLT And XML Files Via PHP And Apache mod_rewrite
Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers: How to work with XML files in PHP? I’ve a couple directories filled with thousands of xml files. Also all these xml files should be reachable with their filename (but have .php at the end instead of .xml) in the url. For example in the article directory the xml file [...]
More Bad Business: Dealing With Contractors And Copyright
Asked recently on Yahoo! Answers: To those of you who design websites, is this ethical? I think my web designer may own the rights to my website. She’s got her company name at the bottom of all my pages, and made a comment once about me being stuck with her. Is that ethical? Is that [...]
