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Sizing your online banners
If you are creating banners for your site, you can create whichever shapes/sizes you wish. But, if you want to put advertisements up supplied by a place like Google's Adsense, you want to probably follow some sizes that are supported (all listed in pixels and all...
Using LESS in Eclipse
If you are trying to use LESS files in Eclipse, you will notice that those files are viewed as plain text - no indenting, no color-coding, no outlining, etc. If you want to fix this up so that these LESS files behave like CSS files, do the following: Install XText...
A cool regex tool
Setting up regular expressions in code can sometimes be a pain. Maybe you want to test that your regex is correct before decorating it to meet your language's needs. Well, there is a useful tool that I've used that does just that - http://regexpal.com/ RegexPal is a...
How to perform a regex using PHP
Regular expressions are generally not intuitive. Regular expressions in PHP are especially not intuitive. In short, there are some special rules to writing regular expressions using PHP. Here are some differences: Delimiters // Traditional - no delimiters necessary...
WordPress roles and capabilities
Users are assigned roles. Roles are assigned capabilities. And here is where you can see which roles map to which capabilities: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
A faster way to access your database
Most any modern website makes use of a backend database. Even if you use a content platform like WordPress, you are, in fact, implicitly using a MySQL database whether you realize it or not. So, there will likely be times when you or your tech friend have a need to...