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I recently had the task of automatically “tweeting” when a new article was posted to one of the websites I had built, it turns out to be a pretty simple operation thanks to both Twitter and Bit.ly providing a straight forward API. An account with Bit.ly does have to be opened to obtain an API [...]

I have just noticed an odd bug when viewing a H1 tag with a background colour under IE6 – There is no background colour until the H1 is taken out of view by scrolling it out of the viewport and then bringing it back again. Highlighting the text partially brings in some colour. One solution [...]

I consider my understanding of MySQL around the intermediate level, but when writing table joins in the past I have always used the ‘equi-join’ method: SELECT t1.*, t2.`name` FROM t1, t2 WHERE t1.n = t2.n; Now, when a record for t2.n doesn’t exist, a row will not be returned. To solve this problem in the [...]

About a year ago I was working on a project where one of its features allowed the user to upload an image, select a colour on the image with a colour picker tool, then select from a group of colours to replace the picked colour with. I had a somewhat stable build running where it [...]

Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows web developers to use their existing skills to build and deploy Internet applications to the desktop that combine the benefits of web applications – network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach – with [...]

For those of us that are developing web projects on a Linux box that are fed up with jumping over onto a Windows machine to test their code in Internet Explorer there is a nice and easy script called IEs4Linux that makes the process of installing MSIE 5, 5.5 and 6 onto a Linux box [...]