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Blog URL http://blog.ffff.ca
Located Toronto, Ontario Canada
Tags system administration, web development, amazon ec2, php, mysql, online advertising
System administration and LAMP based web development tips and tricks from a developer/administrator living and working out of the Toronto area.
Latest Blog Posts
- Windows 7 Font Corruption! on Oct 22, 2009 in Windows all fonts italics on windows bold and italics only corrupted fonts windows 7 left 4 dead font issue windows 7 messed up fonts
I’ve been running Windows 7 for about a week now. I’m impressed! It’s like what Vista should have been. Anyway, after uninstalling a copy of Left 4 Dead yesterday, to my surprise all my fonts turned bold or italics. I mean ever...
- Usability? Nobody is going to use this! on Sep 11, 2009 in Uncategorized Jakob Neilsen jqueryui tab control design usability guidelines web usability
I file the topic of usability in with design. Not something I often pay attention too. Recent explorations into jQueryUI led me to discovering a great article on the subject of tab control design @ useit.com. Jakob’s website is a treasure tr...
- LiveDocx: Create DOCX, DOC, RTF and PDF on Sep 8, 2009 in Discoveries PHP create docx with php create pdf with php livedocx mail merge fields in word 2007 mail merge word file php php word templates phplivedocx phplivedocx without zend
Just a quick post to share with you a service I found over the weekend. The site is called LiveDocx, and with a free membership you get all the tools you need to be able to generate DOCX, DOC, RTF and PDF documents on the fly from templates! Micros...
- Database Normalization…. ? on Aug 8, 2009 in Databases Design 1nf 2nf 3nf database normalization functionally dependent relational database theory
Hanging out in the #mysql channel on Freenode the other night, some members were talking about database normalization. I wasn’t sure what that term meant, so I followed the links that were pasted to find out more. What I discovered was that...
- Creating XLS Files With PHP on Jul 26, 2009 in Coding PHP code to generate excel create xls files php embed images in xls php excel files in php spreadsheet_excel_writer pear xls php xlslib
For many years, whenever one of my web applications needed to output tabular data I’d rely on CSV format. This does the trick for most data, as Excel and most other spreadsheet programs will open CSV’s without a problem. What happens wh...
- Validate Dollar Amount with PHP on Jul 14, 2009 in PHP php validate dollar amount regexp dollar amount regular expression match dollars validate money string
It can be hard when conducting interviews for a web developer position to really know a candidates skill level. Recently a company presented me with the following problem, which I thought stood head and shoulders above the usual multiple choice qui...
- ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table ‘mysql.servers’ doesn’t exist on Jul 10, 2009 in Databases mysql 5.1.36 by Remi mysql error 1146 mysql_fix_privilege_tables
I’m not sure what caused this error in the first place, as it cropped on a server I don’t admin.. ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table ‘mysql.servers’ doesn’t exist This cropped up on Server version: 5.1.36 MySQL Community Server (...
