by suleski | Aug 10, 2014 | Reference, Technical, Walkthroughs
PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository. It’s basically an add-on to PHP that has a bunch of frameworks that are available. You can read more about it at the official site. Getting PEAR onto my system was not obvious. I came across two articles...
by suleski | Jun 24, 2014 | Technical, Uncategorized, Walkthroughs
Why is it so difficult to vertically-center HTML elements?? Yea, that’s what I was recently saying – and looking through the web, it looks like quite a lot of folks are saying it. You would think it might be easy using CSS like this: vertical-align:...
by suleski | Apr 9, 2014 | Products, Reference, Technical, Walkthroughs
Recently, I gave up on using Eclipse in favor of NetBeans. I had also considered Visual Studio for my Windows machine, but NetBeans was easy to setup a project that did not get in the way of the folder hierarchy and worked well with my local WAMP setup. As I started...
by suleski | Nov 10, 2013 | Technical, Walkthroughs
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...
by suleski | Nov 8, 2013 | Technical, Walkthroughs
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...
by suleski | Jul 16, 2013 | Technical, Walkthroughs
Ever want to prevent users from accessing specific areas of your site? You can do so through software; for instance, WordPress has a login mechanism for users. But let’s say that you want to prevent the general public from accessing a specific area of the site...
