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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...

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...

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...

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...