Search Engine Optimisation, Web Development and Network Administration Ramblings
DELTA, an industry backed web based booking system for online advertising officially launched trial on Tuesday 28th with trial partners the likes of:
Yahoo!
MSN
AOL
Bauer Advertising
Guardian Media Group
OMD
Manning Gottlieb OMD
PHD
A Little About DELTA
DELTA is a system appealing to both online advertising agencies and sales points Continued…
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This is a fun one I found today - using getElementById() in IE7 to find a dom element on the page, if you are getting some interesting errors then one possibility is that you have two elements with the same id - or the same name attribute it seems. Continued…
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Looking around for an easy way to resize my images ready for uploading to facebook. Sure, you can use gimp batch processes, but that looks like an awful lot of work.
You could install Davids batch processor for Gimp.
OR, you could do it the truly easy way with a single command: Continued…
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Another quick tip for the archives. Carriage returns on lines in your view finishing with a php statement. Try sending these views as an email and somehow the resulting email does not look entirely correct. The carriage returns have not been passed through.
This is a quick, hackish, tip so I really didn’t get to the bottom of it. Either PHP or Zend mail or possibly savant 3 the templating engine has some error here. Continued…
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Moving complex php if statements into ternary statement syntax is not always recommended, but I think it can look quite neat and easily readable.
Ternary statements compress your code and using nested ternary statements sparingly in certain situations makes a mess of nested if statements far easier to scan when converted to a nested ternary.
e.g: If you have a matrix of 4 results depending on two boolean results you could represent this as a regular php nested if else statement: Continued…
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