Use PHP and cURL to retrieve URL contents (with a few options)
url_get_contents - a function to retrieve the contents of a remote URL with PHP and the cURL library.
Full article Comments (0) 03.06.2008. 22:17
Learn philosophy from...a joke book
Philosophy is probably my second most common reading material. But yes, Sartre is terrifically boring.
Full article Comments (0) 03.06.2008. 21:09
Accessible show/hide content with jquery
I'm a big fan of jquery since I don't often need to write any javascript, but for the times I do it cuts out most of the hassle of accessing on page elements, using CSS selectors and really helps with an accessible approach.
Full article Comments (0) 17.05.2008. 13:30
Persai: dull but effective
As I suppose quite a few people did, I signed up for the beta of Persai as a reader of the now defunct uncov. I imagine that gives them a fairly direct batch of beta testers, all over-fond of the word 'fail'. I've used it solely from an end-user point of view: I haven't done any testing to try to figure out the technology yet.
Full article Comments (0) 17.05.2008. 12:45
Anderton's Music: highly recommended. UX2: great
I recently went shopping for some home-recording equipment, and thought I'd share my experience and give credit where it's due. Online merchants note - a little bit of friendly customer service goes a long way.
Full article Comments (0) 02.05.2008. 20:40
Site design refresh
So, I finally had a spare few hours to sit in the garden with a laptop (the sun is actually shining in England. Wow!) and tweak the site's design.Full article Comments (0) 26.04.2008. 16:32
Use mod_speling to fix mis-typed URIs
I just discovered the Apache module mod_speling (yup, one 'l') which is a fantastic way to ensure visitors who mistype URIs get automatically redirected to the correct location.
Full article Comments (2) 30.04.2007. 20:04
Get viewport size (width and height) with javascript
While finding out monitor resolution with javascript can be useful for statistics and certain other applications, often the need is to determine how much space is available within the browser window.
Full article Comments (22) 12.04.2007. 19:27
Permanent (301) Redirects with PHP
If you want to permanently redirect a small number of URIs, or redirect based on conditions defined in PHP, then you need a permanent PHP redirect.
Full article Comments (0) 30.03.2007. 18:46
Get Monitor Screen Resolution with Javascript
Find out and display a user's screen resolution with javascript
Full article Comments (3) 28.03.2007. 00:15
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