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- Make better Web pages by understanding the CSS box model
- Many novice Web developers use CSS positioning and layout directives without a sound understanding of how they really work. A brief introduction to the box model explains what it is and how you can use it to make better decisions about positioning your HTML elements on a Web page. by...
- Tags: screenshots, Web, TechRepublic Inc., Positioning, Web Page, CSS, Branding, Channel Management, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Contributor Melonfire
- Image galleries 2007-09-10
- Make text-browsing a snap with 20 keyboard shortcuts for Lynx
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.Lynx is a full-featuredtext-mode browser, licensed as open source under the GNU General Public LicenseGPL. It is installed by default on most Linux systems and it is fairlypopular among both Web developers and power users, mostly because of its speed andits ability...
- Tags: Web browsers, Open source, Linux
- Technical articles 2007-05-01
- Precisely control page and element backgrounds with CSS
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.Before CSS arrived, Web developers had limited control overpage and element backgrounds. Sure, they could use the background attribute totile an image over an entire page, and they could control the background colorof an image with the bgcolor attribute.But their control ended...
- Tags: Software engineering/development
- Technical articles 2007-04-19
- Compare file contents and render the output with PHP and PEAR
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.When it becomesnecessary to compare two or more text files in UNIX, most developers reach forthe diff program. This program, included by default in almostall UNIX distributions, compares the files line by line and displays thechanges between them in a number of...
- Tags: Software engineering/development
- Technical articles 2007-04-10
- Customize Linux with these 10 boot prompt options
- One of the reasons Linux-basedsystems are so popular is their configurability -- almost every aspect ofthe operating system's behavior can be customized, making it a wonderfulplatform for new application development or for deployment intohighly customized networked environments. What most users don't realize,however, is that this customization can begin even before...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Contributor Melonfire, file system, kernel, Linux
- Technical articles 2007-04-05
- Read and write MP3 tags with Perl and manage your music files
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download, including the code samples in a more manageable text file format.If you're like most people, you probably have a bunch ofMP3s scattered around your hard disk. And if you're like most people, youprobably also have on your to-do list a plan...
- Tags: Contributor Melonfire, MP3::Tag, Â Â Â Â Â, MP3, Perl
- Technical articles 2007-03-20
- Create better Web sites with CSS and the Font Control property
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download, which includes the example code listings in a more manageable text file format.In times past, altering the typeface of a Web page usuallymeant enclosing the relevant text in a <font> tag andapplying attributes to control its color, size and style. Today,...
- Tags: Â Â Â, Contributor Melonfire, CSS, font, Web, Web site
- Technical articles 2007-02-26
- 10 Perl modules all Java developers should know
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.Just like Perl, Java has been around for a while. However, Perlis a scripting language and Javais a true object-oriented language...which perhaps explains why Java and Perl programmers don't usually hang out at the same bars. Thisis a little bit of a...
- Tags: Contributor Melonfire, Java, Java developer, Perl, Software engineering/development
- Technical articles 2007-02-22
- Create and edit TAR archives dynamically with PHP and PEAR
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download, which includes all of the code in a more manageable text file format.Ifyou've ever downloaded a widget for your UNIX system, you've already met TAR,the Tape ARchive format that iscommonly used in UNIX for packaging multiple files together for easydistribution. This...
- Tags: Contributor Melonfire, Creating TAR, disk location, PEAR Archive_Tar, PHP, Software engineering/development
- Technical articles 2007-02-22
- 10 PEAR classes that simplify your GTK application development
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.PHP developers familiar with windowing applications in *NIXwill already be aware of PHP-GTK, an add-on PHPmodule that allows you to access GIMP Tool Kit GTK libraries andfunctions using an object-oriented interface. But if the thought of buildingcombo boxes and scrolling tickers from...
- Tags: Contributor Melonfire, GIMP Tool Kit, GIMP Tool Kit application, PEAR
- Technical articles 2007-02-13
- Get more data comparison options in MySQL with operators you may not know
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.It's likely that if you've performed a SELECT or UPDATE query in therecent past, you've made use of one or more of MySQL'scomparison operators in constraining your query's output. Comparison is anintegral part of most SELECT queries, and MySQL comes withnumerous functions...
- Tags: Software engineering/development, MySQL, Contributor Melonfire
- Technical articles 2007-02-09
- Create cross-platform database-driven applications with JDBC
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download, which includes the code samples in a more manageable text file format.One of Java most powerful APIs is the Java DatabaseConnectivity JDBC interface. This module offers a unified interface todifferent databases, providing a series of generic functions that areinternally translated into...
- Tags: CITY_TEMP, CITY_TEMP value, CITY_TEMP VALUES, Contributor Melonfire, JDBC, RDBMS
- Technical articles 2007-01-29
- 10 secret MySQL client startup options you should know
- Most server administrators know that the MySQLrelational data base management system RDBMS is a highly flexible piece ofsoftware and comes with a wide range of startup options that can be used tomodify its behavior. What most don't know, however, is that the standard MySQLclient comes with an equally large number...
- Tags: Contributor Melonfire, MySQL, Open source, startup option
- Technical articles 2007-01-29
- Process and parse XML with ease using Jakarta Digester
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download, which includes all of the code listings in a separate text file.Most of the time,parsing an XML document involves either programming a parser tosequentially traverse an XML document, taking different actions as itencounters different tags SAX or building a tree representation...
- Tags: Â Â Â, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â, Contributor Melonfire, XML
- Technical articles 2007-01-22
- Build a better Web site by understanding floated elements in CSS
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download, which includes the code listings in a more manageable text file format.Cascading Style Sheets CSS are rapidly becoming the de facto standard for Webpage layout and positioning. They're easy to use, don't require any specialsoftware, and work uniformly on most major...
- Tags: Â Â Â, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â, Contributor Melonfire, CSS, Software engineering/development, Web, Web site, Web sites
- Technical articles 2007-01-03
- Five common errors in requirements analysis (and how to avoid them)
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.In the traditionalwaterfall model of software development, the first phase of requirementsanalysis is also the most important one. This is the phase which involvesgathering information about the customer's needs and defining, in the clearestpossible terms, the problem that the product is expected...
- Tags: analysis, Contributor Melonfire, requirements analysis, requirements specification, software, Software engineering/development
- Technical articles 2007-01-02
- Dynamic XML document construction with the PHP DOM
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download, which includes the example code listings in a more manageable text file format.When working with XML-basedapplications, developers often find themselves facing the requirement togenerate XML-encoded data structures on the fly. Examples of this include anXML order template based on user input...
- Tags: Contributor Melonfire, DOMDocument, PHP, Software engineering/development, XML, XML document
- Technical articles 2006-12-06
- Explore 10 of the more useful Perl modules for YAML developers
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.Most people have heard of XML, but not as many have heard of YAML, which is aretronym for "YAML Ain't Markup Language".YAML is a data-centric markup language that relies on ASCII symbols such ashyphens, question marks, colons and commas to construct data...
- Tags: Contributor Melonfire, Perl, Software engineering/development, YAML
- Technical articles 2006-12-05
- Simplify your code with MySQL transactions and prepared queries, and the Perl DBI
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download, which includes the code listings in a more manageable text file format.The behind-the-scenes logic of many Web applications ofteninvolves repeatedly running the same database query with different arguments,or executing a set of related queries as an all-for-nothing block. To supportthese requirements,...
- Tags: Software engineering/development, database, Contributor Melonfire, MySQL, Perl DBI, Perl
- Technical articles 2006-11-29
- Three easy ways to optimize your MySQL queries
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download, which includes the code listings in a more manageable text file format.Any database programmer will tell you that in high-trafficdatabase-driven applications, a single badly-designed SQL query can significantly impact the overall performanceof your application. Not only does such a query consume...
- Tags: Contributor Melonfire, MySQL, performance, Storage
- Technical articles 2006-11-20
