Monthly Archives: March 2009

forgotten syntaxes for MySQL

A lot of people seem to have problems with updating or inserting data in tables in an intelligent way. We shouldn’t point a finger to those who don’t use the correct syntax for the problem it solves, because there are … Continue reading

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the twittersphere

All Twitter users will recognize some things from this little, very hilarious movie. Take a look at it…. I guess the creators of the video really have a point here…

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Interesting web developer tutorials and apps

Microsoft SuperViewer Microsoft recently released a small piece of software on which a web developer can test his application in different browsers. Try it; it might come in rather handy as this will maybe become one of the futures most … Continue reading

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Symfony Forms Framework: Merge 2 forms

Recently I had to create a form to create/update users in our system. Some time ago we decided to save are users in 2 tables. The first table would contain all login information and the second his personal information. This … Continue reading

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enhance your css

Writing css code isn’t that hard, it’s easy, clean but can be a pain in the ass to keep it readable when you have hundreds or maybe thousands of lines of code. When sticking to specific rules it can all … Continue reading

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Complexity in webdesign

Ever heard of ‘less is more’? This is, more than ever, a standard that every developer should follow while designing his new website. Why the f* would I start talking about that, you can ask yourself. Well, the answer is … Continue reading

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Big Money or/and Respect

I was listening to the radio in my car this morning and overheard an interview with the Flemish godfather of the internet, Mister Robert Cailiau. In December 1974 he started working at CERN as a Fellow in the Proton Synchrotron … Continue reading

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Security on websites

Sometimes it’s interesting to protect your web content from the world, and there are different ways (or a combination) to do this: Create a robot.txt file This file is uploaded into the root folder of a website and makes sure … Continue reading

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conversion of dates

I struggled with a bit of code last week, but found a nice solution. The goal was to convert 3 parameters into a date: 1. The day of the week (0 -> 6, 0 = Monday, 1 = Tuesday, 2 … Continue reading

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wtf/min

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