Rounded corners are often lauded in the design world, UX / UI people claim rounded edges are easier on the eyes and makes information easier to process by our brains. A few years back it used to be a pain to achieve this effect though. With a developer having to…
Read MoreText Drop Shadows With CSS3
A few years back i worked at a digital agency where one of the guys on the team loved to look at pages and exclaim “its almost there it just needs a drop shadow and we are done”. For years now if you wanted to make some text look “a…
Read MoreMagic Quotes In PHP
The Symptoms Recently I was trying to debug a piece of code it worked fine in the development and staging environments. But when the code was uploaded to the production server it would break! Looking at the JSON data it appeared the production web server was adding back slashes to…
Read MoreRaspberry Pi Overclocking
Like just like alot of other people as soon as the Model B Raspberry Pi went on sale in March I eagerly rushed out and ordered one from Element 14. Due to production delays this didn’t arrive till the start of June.ย But given its size, specs and price I…
Read MoreWatching the progress of a dd action
dd is one of those indispensable Unix / Linux utilities whether its cloning or wiping a drive or simply creating a bootable flash drive from an image file. The problem is operations like wiping a drive with the output from /dev/zero can take an extremely long time especially on larger…
Read MoreClient Side Image Place Holders Made Easy
For years designers and developers have used “Lorem ipsum” as a standard placeholder text when creating page layouts. When incorporating images into the body design though the standard approach is a little less straight forward. With images having to be made or resized first to the required dimensions and then…
Read MoreDisplay & Visibility CSS Differences
Today I ran into some issues with hidden elements and the visibility CSS attribute on a project I was working on. The elements were not visible but they were still taking up space in the layout. Which started me wondering what exactly is the difference between the display and visibility…
Read MoreUsing The Panoramio Wrapper Class
Ever been working on a project that was area specific and wanted nearby local images? I did recently, and knew after seeing images over layed onto Google maps that it must be possible. Looking around I found a few pieces of code that did what I wanted using the Panoramio…
Read MoreQuick Recursive Code Count
Although the “lines of code” in a project is not the worlds most useful metric. Curiosity sometimes gets the better of us and after many days / weeks of typing you think “gee I wonder exactly how many lines of code are in that project?”. Wonder no more! By embracing…
Read MoreMagic constant not working with require_once
Its funny when a new feature is added to your language of choice how quickly it gets embraced and used within your code. Today upon uploading some code to a clients shared hosting environment I was greeted by the following error: Uploading a file to display phpinfo() I was able…
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