February, 2007 Results

OOP in PHP from a .NET OOP Perspective: The Database Class

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

For those just joining, it is suggested that you begin with OOP in PHP from a .NET OOP Perspective as this is Part 3 of a series.

This time I am going to talk about the Database class, as every project now-a-days typically stores their information in a database. A good database class can save you time and memory in retrieving results. It should be able to cache previous queries, to recall them later, and it should clear out the results from memory when they are no longer needed.

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Google Webmaster Tools - Links

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools users are in for a real treat! Google now provides a table that list pages within your site that have links pointing to them from other sites. You can even download the table.

Thanks Google, that’s very handy…

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Your Favorite Free Programs

Monday, February 5th, 2007

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Kevin Rose’s (Founder Digg)
favorite free programs

  • AVG Anti-Virus (Antivirus app)
  • Eraser (Data removal tool)
  • Firefox (Web browser)
  • GIMPShop (Image editor)
  • Picasa (Photo management)
  • SmartFTP (FTP app)
  • Thunderbird (E-mail client)

Since it appears that I was the last man on Earth to learn about Firebug, I thought I would ask - what are your favorite free programs?

CSS min-height Explained

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Although IE (Internet Explorer) 5 and 6 don’t understand the CSS min-height property they can easily be made to understand it by simply using height instead. They will treat height almost as though it were min-height and will expand an element that contains its content even though the height has been set.

In this article we examine the CSS min-height property and learn best practices for allowing it to work across all browsers.

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Links for the Weekend, 2-3-2007

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

The Bad Guys are Winning!

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

The Search-This blog is now 1 month old…oh how cute!

Akismet has protected your site from 256 spam comments.”

I only have 57 comments, that’s 4 to 1 spam. The bad guys are winning!

So all you lurkers, speak up! I know you’re there, I can see you - according to AWStats, we average about 1,000 visitors a day. That’s not bad, but you’re all mute.

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