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The doom of 2038

September 17th, 2006

Pack the food tins, batteries, clothing, and maybe build a little bunker as the millennium bug is back! (Except we’ve got until 2038 and it will be far easier to fix).
Back in 2000 the world was in turmoil as the Y2K bug reared its ugly head. The world’s computer systems were set to explode, money [...]

PHP/MySQL Programming

Automatic image resizing using PHP

September 11th, 2006

Fed up of manually creating thumbnails of all your images prior to uploading? This tutorial goes through the basics of automatically creating a thumbnail image when an image is uploaded. This is a very useful and time-saving tool for any content management system.
We are going to use the GD library in PHP to create our [...]

PHP/MySQL Programming

A practical approach to accessibility

September 5th, 2006

Have you read the website accessibility guidelines lately? Even for the experienced web developer, the W3Cs WAI WCAG 1.0 guidelines can take time to grasp, and then implement sensibly into a website. The key word being ’sensibly’. It’s near impossible to stick implicitly to the guidelines so it’s vital to take a step back and ask [...]

Accessibility