Monthly Archives: January 2010

CSS Border Radius Percentages and Elliptical Borders

Posted on Thu 28 Jan 2010 by Joseph Scott

When using CSS border radius I’ve always specified the radius in pixels (px), something like this: .round-box { border-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; } This got me to wondering, does it support percentages as well? So I tried this: … Continue reading →

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"Weird Al" Yankovic Blog

Posted on Tue 26 Jan 2010 by Joseph Scott

Not sure when exactly this happened, but Weird Al has a blog on WordPress.com – http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/ That’s awesome!

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Just Hanging Out

Posted on Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Joseph Scott
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PHP Helpers: esc_html

Posted on Tue 19 Jan 2010 by Joseph Scott

Next up in the PHP Helpers series is esc_html: if ( !function_exists( ‘esc_html’ ) ) { function esc_html( $html, $char_set = ‘UTF-8′ ) { if ( empty( $html ) ) { return ”; } $html = (string) $html; $html = … Continue reading →

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First Rule of Collaboration: If You Can't Link To It, It Didn't Happen

Posted on Mon 18 Jan 2010 by Joseph Scott

I’ve been mulling over the merits of different collaboration tools. What struck me is the importance of being able to refer to past conversations. In the world of the Internet that means URLs. Having a history, or log, of discussions … Continue reading →

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Setting up SVNSync and SVN-Notify

Posted on Fri 15 Jan 2010 by Joseph Scott

Long story short, I wanted to get commit emails for a Subversion repo. I don’t have any admin rights to the repo so I figured the easiest way was to just setup a local repo, keep up to date with … Continue reading →

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PHP Helpers: debug_log

Posted on Thu 14 Jan 2010 by Joseph Scott

I’ve been thinking recently about useful PHP functions, ones that are so handy that I’d like to have them available in every PHP code base I work on. These aren’t necessarily big elaborate functions, they do a single task and … Continue reading →

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Unsubscribe Delay

Posted on Wed 13 Jan 2010 by Joseph Scott

One of my email accounts got signed up for an announcement list from Motor Trend magazine. Although I usually avoid clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link, this looked legitimate enough that I went ahead and gave it a try. After submitting … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X Screenshot Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted on Wed 13 Jan 2010 by Joseph Scott

Mac OS X has numerous keyboard shortcuts, a handful of which will do screenshots for you: Shift-Command-3 : Screenshot of the whole screen, automatically saved as ‘Picture 1.png’ to your desktop. Shift-Control-Command-3 : Screenshot of the whole screen copied to … Continue reading →

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PHP Count Performance

Posted on Tue 12 Jan 2010 by Joseph Scott

There was a question on the Utah PHP user group email list recently that went something like this: is calling count() on an array once and storing the result in a variable better/faster than calling count() multiple times? I’d always … Continue reading →

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