Ok, It’s been a long time in the making, I’ll be the first to admit. This is a blog by a colleague of mine who shall remain nameless. There are some interesting tips on saving money and some cute lil’ rants.
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Some more very basic information on image optimization. If you’ve had some experience with Photoshop or even just some basic image editor you can skip this. This is for the people who upload a 2.5 MB image and use HTML tags to “reduce the size”.
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Not much more to say than, here’s the link. Dan at WebDeveloperNow, has a nice lil’ basic CSS run down for beginners. Skip this if you’ve had to hack together some stuff before.
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Now I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a huge Flash advocate. I don't like it for a lot of reasons:
But guys, I think I fell in love:
SWFUpload is one of the nicer Flash applications out there and it's good because it has a few features that ordinary HTML uploads can't give you. A progress bar. That is one of the main features lacking with HTML uploads. You can also upload multiple files simultaneosly. And I must say, it's pretty.
So much for the user end. You'd think this thing takes a lot of back-end code. Nope.
Yep, that's it. Have fun
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I've stumbled upon a disturbing poll at About.com.
How much is too much to pay for Web hosting?
The results of this poll were somewhat alarming to me. 33% of voters said that a business should pick a free host. OK, have these people ever seen what a free host offers?
I'm not usually an advocate of "you get what you pay for" but there is some truth to it. Honestly, I have had very little experience with free hosts. First of all, do they even offer MySQL and PHP? Just asking.
I have had experience with "cheap" hosts though. If it's not one thing it's the other. Either their PHP service goes down frequently or the entire host goes down. My last host was very surprising. I decided to pick them because they advertised in a very popular magazine that I subscribe to. Here's the problem: They do offer MySQL and PHP, but they username's and database names that they give are auto-generated for you. So this makes maintenance extremely difficult. Even logging into the server via FTP is difficult just because the username is so critique.
I read this title and I was a bit confused. How, was my first question. Well, they did it. They did it a number of ways. Basically, they use a full background color and use CSS and a little bit of JavaScript to "eat" away at the corners. Very interesting idea.
Alessandro Fulciniti writes:
This is the original article. The technique has been improved with better browser support and a lot of new features. The new article has been published on the 6th of April 2005. You can read it here. The final version is Niftycube.
Rounded Corners with CSS are a hot topic in web design: I think that there are hundreds of articles on them. This page is intended to present the solution I came up, that doesn't requires images, extra markup nor CSS. Let's start.
Give them a look see:
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What is a Content Management System? Here's a little background. Lots of websites have dynamic content. Meaning, the content is located in a database, usually MySQL, and they are simply dumped into a web template when the page is viewed. That way, if you decide to change the structure or template of your website, the content need not be changed. You wouldn't really have to mess with anything. Since you have one main template, a change in the template is propagated throughout all the pages because all the pages are created dynamically and use the same template.
A content management system or CMS allows a user to manage this content. Excellent description, I know. Basically the user simply edits the content of the web site and not the actual pages. They don't need to know any HTML, they don't need to deal with the structure of the website they simply edit content.
Xpert.com.au has a nice write up on CMS.
Advantages of a Content Management System:
- Decentralized maintenance.
- Designed with non-technical content editors in mind.
- Configurable access restrictions.
- Consistency of design is preserved.
- Navigation is automatically generated.
- Content is stored in a database.
It is now 12:56 AM and I'm putting the finishing touches on my Take Home Exam for Numerical Analysis. When is it due you may ask. No, you're wrong, it's not due tomorrow at 8:00 AM. It's due at 11:00 AM, so there :).
Yes, it's due in a couple of hours. Did I just start it? Come on now, no I didn't. I've just been procrastinating in finishing the last question. So I'll have it in tomorrow and everything will be fine.
The topics covered in this exam were interesting. We're doing Interpolation using Taylors Series, Lagrange Polynomials and Divided Differences. What is interesting about this class is that I'm taking it with a professor who is in love with Excel spreadsheets. Actually, his first love is Lotus, but since Excel is what we have on all the computers at school, he has little choice.
I've read the book and I've even searched online and I haven't found anyone using his particular spreadsheet method of solving these things. It takes a little bit of work to set up the spreadsheet, but once you have it set up you simply substitute points for different questions and it spits out your answer. Pretty nifty if you ask me. I think he should fine tune this method and he might even get anothe research paper out of it. I would lend my assistance, but there are two things standing in my way:
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