If the text is too wide to fit into a container, a nice solution can be to have ellipsis to show there's more information available. While not currently part of the official HTML specifications, it is possible to have ellipsis defined in CSS and it...
PHP has heredoc syntax like other programming languages to interpolate variables into large string blocks (which I've covered in an earlier post). In PHP 5.3.0 a new string delimiter was introduced called "nowdoc" which works in the same was as heredoc...
In the past I've posted three ways to pad a number in Javascript with leading zeros, none of which dealt with negative numbers. Recently Hans Pufal emailed me a suggested alternative which approaches the padding in a different way and also preserves...
The MySQL Query Browser is a GUI tool for running queries on MySQL database servers. This post looks at an issue where the query browser reports an issue with memory load being extremely high and prevents the query from running. There are versions of...
My monthly stats round up posts a summary of the most read posts over the previous month, numbers of visitors to the blog and any changes I have made over the month that may have affected visitor numbers etc. This is the monthly stats roundup for...
