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Awesome Visual Crontab Editor

I don’t regularly create cronjobs; however when I do I can never remember the proper crontab syntax. Each time I want to edit my crontab I have to fire up my codebox for reference. For some reason its the minutes and hours that screw me every time. The trusty old reference below just doesn’t do [...]

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Populate a DIV from a Form Select with jQuery

Have you ever wanted to populate a div with some specified text based on a form select. Below is my super simple solution. First you will need to add a select into your form and create the div where you want your specified text displayed. The HTML Next add the following javascript. The JavaScript Give [...]

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Free jQuery UI Themes Collection

jQuery UI, the official user interface components library of jQuery, offers a lot for quickly implementing widely-used widgets and features into websites. It consists of the popular datepicker, slider, accordion, progress bar, drag ‘n’ drop and much more. And, it is themable, there is even ThemeRoller which allows anyone to customize their own themes. However, any ThemeRoller-customized [...]

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Create an Error Page to Handle all HTTP Errors with PHP

From the land of “why the hell didn’t I think of this sooner”… The following is a drop dead simple method to handling all HTTP error (403, 404, 500 etc.) pages with one single PHP file and a few tweaks to your htaccess. .htaccess Code The first step is to create/modify your .htaccess file. The [...]

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Stop SOPA/PIPA (PROTECT-IP)

Congress is about to pass internet censorship, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. YES – These bills WILL affect how you use and view the [...]

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Automatically Update Your Copyright Notice Date

Every year some lonely web folks are wasting time updating the copyright dates on their various websites footers. Since we have jumped head first into 2012 lets start the year off right. The following will show you how to use PHP to automatically update your notice. Display Current Year Add Your Copyright Text I’m sure [...]

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Business Days To/Fro with PHP

The below example will help you with finding or setting a date to and/or fro using business days only. I needed this for a project I was working on and thought I would share. Enjoy

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Super Simple Page Cache with PHP

Here is a super simple way serve up a cached version of your HTML. Modified from WESBOS

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H.264 Standardization, The Final Nail In Flash’s Coffin

The big news announcement of the day is that MPEG LA, license holder for a number of high profile video standards has declared all h.264 video will be royalty free, so long as the video is provided to the end user for free. The technical implications of this are lengthy, dull and tedious. The short [...]

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CSSEdit – Cascading Style Sheets with a Dash of Love

I have been hand-jamming and/or utilizing DreamWeavers CSS tools for so long I never stopped to look outside the box. I honestly don’t know how or where I came across MacRabbit’s CSSEdit app, but I wish I had stumbled across it a long time ago. CSSEdit is nicely designed and fits in like a standard [...]

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