This has been bugging me for a while, because I do a fair bit of HTML and XML custom parsing code, and kind of wondered what would be the valid characters for an attribute name in a HTML tag, e.g. <a href=”…” name=”…”>thing</a> So, what are the valid characters in HTML (or XML) for “href” […]
Month: January 2009
Ever seen Google down? Me neither. Sure, I’ve seen the “Gmail not available” message, and “Service unavailable” once or twice, but it was only for a few seconds, really. That said, last month for about 15 minutes, it appeared that Google was down. At first I did what’s called a Domain Name lookup in DNS […]
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Praise for PHP Arrays
I have to give credit to the PHP team for creating what is one of the most flexible, easy to use, and powerful data structures I have used. That is the array. To be completely accurate, the manual describes it as
In full disclosure, I work for Market Ruler, LLC which makes a Marketing Tracking Tool for Marketing Agencies called ConversionRuler, and have a vested interest in the success of aforementioned company. That said, I recently had the pleasure of working with a new sales consultant, who asked a rather benign question: Why do your customers […]
I’m talking about time as represented by, say, your watch, and I’m talking about it in context of internationally agreeing on time. You think about time and it’s no big deal, right? Twice a year we have to change our clocks for some insane reason which has to do with farmers milking their cows or
The following is a summary of tips originally posted to a mailing list about For Sale By Owner and Buying/Selling your Home. Working with Realtors Get a lockbox. It will save you countless hours if the house is unoccupied. As a general rule as well, if someone calls, make sure they are actually a Realtor […]
Big bad corporations everywhere are tracking your every activity online! Run for the hills!
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RAID 5 and MySQL is NOT recommended
Formatting a drive using RAID 5 is a very big mistake when setting up a high performance MySQL database server.
As a veteran PHP developer, a count down my five most useful PHP functions not built into the language. Save time and write better code by using some simple PHP code snippets.