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RSS—Making the web faster

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:07:40 +0000

What is it? We are all used to reading web pages. Ordinary web pages are written in HTML, which is displayed by web browsers. RSS is similar to HTML, but is much simpler. An RSS page, known as an RSS...

Bye bye formmail...

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:54:00 +0000

Using formmail? Replace it with its NMS equivalent, which is better written and more secure. Better still, upgrade to TFMail, a script that does everything FormMail does, but without the security holes....

Why you should use Firefox

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:50:12 +0000

I'm a web developer and I use Firefox as my main browser, both at home and at work. Unlike the average web user, I'm very aware of the technologies that drive the web. I like experimenting with them, sometimes...

Elements, attributes, and tags.

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:41:27 +0000

Consider this code snippet:

Hello World! I am Andrew

There are two elements (a p-type and em-type), one attribute (class="intro"), and four tags (

, , ,

). In XML, the tags are the things delimited by `<'...

The alt attribute

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:31:50 +0000

Anybody who has been involved in web development at all but the most superficial levels knows about the importance of the alt attribute for images in web pages. It functions as a text replacement for the image in circumstances...

MySQL's Page

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:28:47 +0000

If you don't like the pager in MySQL, you can change it with the mysql>pager [pagername] command. See the MySQL commands page. eg mysql>pager less makes mysql use less....

Useful grep options

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 17:33:20 +0000

-i = case insensitive -l = only matching filenames --include = only grep in files whose names match...

SGML Geekery

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 19:16:27 +0000

The odd bits of HTML you never knew existed, and why you should only use XHTML 1.0 if you have to. There are several current versions of HTML, including HTML 4.01 Strict HTML 4.01 Transitional HTML 4.01 Frameset XHTML 1.0...

XHTML Reference

Sun, 01 Aug 2004 17:10:49 +0000

XHTML 1.0 DOCTYPE declarations Strict DTD Elements and Attributes (zip file) Loose (Transitional) DTD Elements and Attributes (zip file) Frameset DTD Elements and Attributes (zip file) Strict Alternatives to Deprecated Elements Strict Alternatives to Deprecated Attributes...