Permalink to How To Use The HTML 5 Video Element

How To Use The HTML 5 Video Element

On 05.21.2010 by Paul Robinson | 2 comments

If you are a fan of watching online videos you may, or may not, know that nearly all videos on the web are played using a video player that runs using the Adobe Flash plugin. While this has always been ok, it is still a plugin & native support for playing videos would be a lot better.

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PHP Basics: The Switch Statement

On 05.20.2010 by Paul Robinson | 2 comments

Today we are going back to basics with a small tutorial on how to use the PHP switch statement. They can be extremely useful, but knowing how to use them properly can save you a lot of time.

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CSS 3: Custom Fonts Using @font-face

On 05.19.2010 by Paul Robinson | 2 comments

One of the new and exciting features I’m loving in CSS is the ability to include custom fonts in your website. The best thing about it is that it’s all done in browser. In this post we are going to look at this exciting new feature.

Permalink to CSS 3: Gradient Generation In Browser

CSS 3: Gradient Generation In Browser

On 05.12.2010 by Paul Robinson | no comments

Gradients are part and parcel of web design these days. Even subtle ones can be used to make a flat color look that little bit more exciting. The problem has always been creating them required a graphics program & repeats are a pain, but now you can generate them in browser.

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Showing Or Saving An Image Retrieved Via cURL

On 05.11.2010 by Paul Robinson | 2 comments

As a developer cURL can be a very handy for numerous reasons. In my case I have used it for my plugin Twitter Stream, but here we are going to look at a little tip I stumbled across while playing with cURL.

Permalink to A Quick Look At HTML 5

A Quick Look At HTML 5

On 05.10.2010 by Paul Robinson | no comments

Today we are going to have a quick look at HTML 5. HTML 5 comes with a lot of improvements over XHTML 1.1 including quite a few very useful tags that replace the massive number of <div> tags we use when building a website.

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CSS 3: Box Shadow

On 05.09.2010 by Paul Robinson | 6 comments

Next on our journey through the new CSS 3 properties we are going to take a look at Box Shadow. As the name suggests it creates a shadow, just like the Text Shadow property, except Box Shadow creates a shadow based on the element’s box model.

Permalink to Using Mod Rewrite & Other htaccess Related Tips

Using Mod Rewrite & Other htaccess Related Tips

On 05.08.2010 by Paul Robinson | no comments

Provided your host allows you to, using your htaccess file is extremely important. Without one you can’t have fancy permalinks in WordPress, but did you know you can do all sorts of other cool things with it? Here are some of my favorites.

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Solving PHP File Uploading Errors Caused By Mod Security

On 05.07.2010 by Paul Robinson | 2 comments

Today’s latest & greatest PHP based applications generally have some sort of mass media upload system integrated with them. Sometimes though you get error after error when using these new mass uploaders. Here is one way that may fix them.

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Using File Writing To Log Errors In Your PHP Application

On 05.06.2010 by Paul Robinson | no comments

When writing a PHP application it’s very important to give out nice friendly error messages to anyone using the application. The problem? You don’t get any detailed error information. To help we can add file logging to log the detailed error information.


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