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AJAX: Learn The Basics Without Using Toolkit Libraries

AJAX is one of the popular acronym buzzwords in the world of web development technologies. It stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. What it does is allow you to make your website far more dynamic by updating portions in realtime … Continue reading

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JavaScript: Controlling a Popup Window’s Parent Window

You may find it useful to control a parent window from a generated popup window, such as being able to manipulate its look, content, etc. One example being a web application I wrote for work. In the portion for entering … Continue reading

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PHP: Checkbox Arrays with Javascript Usage

If you’ve created HTML forms then you’ll have used checkboxes and radio buttons for gathering user input. Taking it a step further you would link your form with a server-side scripting language such as PHP to capture the user input … Continue reading

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Guide to Installing Ogre3D on Mac OS X (Xcode + Ogre SDK 1.7.3)

This guide serves as an introduction to getting started with Ogre3D on Mac OS X, namely setting up the development environment and building a basic application. It’ll serve as the first in several series of blog posts I intend to … Continue reading

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Creating Captcha Images with PHP and the GD Library

A long time ago I wrote some code to create captcha images using PHP. The goal was to create similar or exact representations of the captcha’s used on Yahoo’s Overture. I really don’t have an answer why I chose their … Continue reading

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