Posted on September 17, 2007 by Nik
“Does it ever occur to you that today’s Web developers could learn a thing or two from traditional computer programming? The cranky user talks about the foundations of software engineering and asks where in the Web those best practices have disappeared to.”
- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-cranky76/?ca=dgr-btw01BetterWebpages (Thanks for the [...]
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Posted on April 13, 2007 by Nik
We’ve talked a bit about PHP in class with Carolina lately, and a lot of people are having problems getting anything to work.
Introduction
PHP is a server-side scripting language, and as such the server (Your computer, or your remote server) MUST have PHP installed in order for any PHP to be rendered. If PHP is [...]
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Posted on March 30, 2007 by Nik
A searchable database of over 1500 regular expressions for all your needs!
RegExLib
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Posted on March 27, 2007 by Nik
Flippin’ sweet way to give users hints and information on form fields (such as what kind of information is required and in what format). Sure beats alert(”You must provide a credit card number!” 
read more | digg story
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Posted on March 3, 2007 by Nik
Through the course of working on my website for Web Imaging, I had to make some forms that required the form fields to be equidistant from the input label, so that the form was as grid-like as possible. It’s easy to accomplish with tables, but that’s not really the best practice. You can do it [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2007 by Nik
Adobe’s Kuler is a cool flash site where people submit colour schemes, and where you can create your own. Great for inspiration when you’re trying to think of a colour scheme for a site. Gives the HSV, RGB, SMYK, LAB, and HEX values for each colour. Keep in mind not all of these colours are [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2007 by Nik
I got a little tired of working with all the seperate ZIP lab files for NOS, so I decided to take all the labs and condense them in to one, easy to manage PDF. The PDF also has bookmarks (See the bookmarks tab in Adobe Acrobat), so you can easily skip through to a specific [...]
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Posted on January 7, 2007 by nodeadbunnies
i made a new questions category. hope i manage to post this in there correctly. there’s now a help forum on blackboard. i posted this there, but i like us better and i think more people read this on sundays, so here’s a question:
how can i force the same height on 2 side-by-side divs? [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2007 by Nik
Rob, in all his awesomeness, has found a site with great web-safe colour swatches. This is REALLY handy for when you’re coding CSS and you’re not sure about the hex values for a colour.
Thanks Rob!
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Posted on December 12, 2006 by Nik
Found these resources on Javascript on Digg today:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll/jstutor0.htm
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/contents.html
http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/AdvancedJavascript
It’s just a day late, but it should make for some good holiday reading..heh.
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