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Thank you, East Bay Mac User Group! Thank you to everyone at East Bay Mac User Group taking time out of your busy schedules to share your thoughts, and work together to learn web development! It's ...
Eregi deprecation for PHP 5.3 in CubeCart Older versions of Cube Cart heavily used the erge family of functions. Luckily, the fix is using the new preg family, and a bit of light code ...
First-line and letter for all browsers Safari allows full support of the first-line and the first-letter CSS request, but Firefox 2 and under only shows partial support. Case example: the containing div of this post is ...
Randomizing Post Data in WordPress 2.5 I recently updated a client's business website to Wordpress 2.5, and noticed the dated rand_posts trick failed me. Further investigation noted that Wordpress had completely changed it's table ...
the RedPost: Custom Signs for the Bently Reserve Eric Kanagy of the RedPost Inc. recently posted my sign Designs at the Bently Reserve, and I wanted to explain them a bit more to the world. I'll ...
960 Grid System Working hard to streamline web design, Nathan Smith created the 960 Grid System: a series of electronic templates and web code to help designers create advanced sites based ...
How to find and replace in MySQL PHPmyAdmin Just because someone asked, here's a quick way to find and replace content in MySQL using PHPmyAdmin. This technique works the same command line, and it's possible it works ...
New beginnings Dotfive needed to end. Although I have a back log of clientele both within San Francisco and the Chicagoland Area, the challenge of design has become a mundane set of ...
Safari developer 90% of the way to Acid 3 Test validation Dave hyatt blogged recently that although safari 3 was finishing with a decent 39/100, their developer version has now surpassed the 90/100 point with some hard development time. Dave ...
Microsoft releases the first IE8 Beta Microsoft is releasing it's first public beta of IE 8 today. It should be interesting to see what bug fixes are in store for developers, and what new bugs ...
Flash is a joke Thanks Uncle Steve, for telling the rest of the world what professionals in this industry have known for a while... flash is a joke. A cute inside joke where ...
Acid3 Today it's announced the new Acid3 compatibility tests for modern web browsers. The goal, defined by their press release, is: The Acid3 Test is designed to test specifications for ...
Microsoft Online gets rolling CNET is pitching Microsoft's online system adds some big names, but I feel underwhelmed by the idea of Microsoft doing anything big in regards to the world wide web. ...
WordPress – designing without style Joe Trotter discusses his distaste for default wordpress designs and laments on the cookie cutter appeal wordpress has on it's average users. Most will agree that the default themes ...
Out to Lunch says accessibility is in ‘no way possible’ Recently I've posted comments on Out to Lunch's remark against accessibility on the web who notes when debating how to code for the blind: I see it in no ...
Roman Cart says that dynamic code is bad? From the Roman Cart site: We strongly recommend that you create your website using html, and not a server side language such as php or asp. The reason for this ...
Host Rocket – Support and Customer service that doesn’t care Probably one of the more frustrating hosts I've had to deal with , Host Rocket lost all of our client's data... and not just the standard issue website ...
Dreamhost : Hosting Redemption Dreamhost may have made marketing redemption with the beautiful and revealing Web Hosting's Dirty Laundry. A brief, and quality, tirade into the realm of 'independent hosting review sites' that market ...
Slashdot CSS with design guidelines from someone who’s not a designer Slashdot is launching a new css design contest that could throttle any qualified designer, here's some sad tidbits: Topic Icons - So we have 150+ topic icons. Your design needs ...
hacking wordpress: Unique id’s for the admin menu One of the more troubling issues I had with wordpress is unique ID's for the admin menu bar. I'm sure you're asking why in the world I would need this:) ...
dreamhost charges it’s customers 2000% markup? Looks like the dreamhost blog is bragging about it's financial margins on how easy it is to host with their past experience. Does this mean that I'll stop having ...
paypal shopping cart won’t work for pop up blockers and tabbed browsers In an attempt to make a simple, managed site for a clients Jewelry Business, we looked to paypal's shopping cart as a solution to our financial restraints... however, there ...
cubecart — xhtml/css store wonder falls short div's You can imagine my pure bliss when Andrew told me about his find... CubeCart. ZenCart and osCommerce looked to be a thing of the past; ...
roundcube mysql via terminal Roundcube went beta last week: http://roundcube.net/ Many of us are testing this application very aggressively — I’ve actually been using it in production for a few clients, 200+ users, and it’s worked ...