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Validation ensures correct parsing, not rendering

(X)HTML & CSS / Wednesday March 10th, 2010 / No comments

Many times I hear people say that their pages "validate, but still won't display right". However, it is important to remember that validation only checks a page's adherence to a particular document type declaration, and whether they are syntactically well-formed as a markup document.

Digression - a chemistry table of everything

Other / Monday March 1st, 2010 / 1 comment

Wow, I never realised that the start of the could be so busy! Anyway, while I look for new interesting things to post, here is something that I made a while ago - a table of "everything" for chemistry measures, detailing their relations to the mole.

Creating a customised Windows PE 3.0 image

Other, Tutorials / Thursday January 14th, 2010 / No comments

Microsoft Windows PE 3.0 is a stripped-down version of Windows 7 based on the 7100 kernel. Capable of running Windows-32 applications, Windows PE can be used for deploying, servicing and repairing Windows installations, as well as running other tools, such as Norton Ghost. Windows PE 3.0 is created using the Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7, a free application suite available on the Microsoft website. The Windows AIK for Windows 7 must be installed on a machine running Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Useful PHP debugging functions

PHP / Sunday November 15th, 2009 / No comments

While we all wish that we could program in PHP without making any mistakes, sometimes we do encounter bugs that prevent our scripts from running correctly. When this happens, we have to debug, however, especially when programs get very big, trying to figure out the source of the errors can get very confusing. Nevertheless, PHP provides some useful functions to help in the debugging process. Some the ones I find particularly useful are detailed below.

Digression - functions for the TI-89

Other, The Lab / Sunday November 1st, 2009 / No comments

Nothing to do with web development, but a while ago I wrote some Maths functions in BASIC for my TI-89, a calculator that has been in my cupboard gathering dust for the past year or so. However, I recently dug it out, and discovered all of my old code still on it. So, all the functions I wrote are now available for download through the Lab, at http://lab.aspektas.com/mkfunc.zip.

MySQL Querier - quick DB management

The Lab, PHP / Saturday September 19th, 2009 / No comments

A long time ago (e.g. a couple of years) I wrote a very small one-page PHP script for myself to use to quickly manage my MySQL databases through direct SQL queries, phpMyAdmin being to slow in some occasions. Now, I've put the source up in the Lab, so anyone can use it.

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