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Caching web pages speeds-up dramatically the loading time. A ready, waiting cached version is served, no load on the server, no preparation, here it is!
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In our setup SAP exports a daily price and stock file for our website. The file is uploaded in a script via FTP to the
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If you have an excel with many rows and you have applied filters or even only hidden some rows you can easily select and copy
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On one of my websites I listed product drawings for customers to download. These drawings were offered in different formats: PDF, Solidworks, Parasolid, DXF and
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Most website menus are made with some kind of a <ul> <li> structure variation. Usually they also have a mobile mode (hamburger) that comes into
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A highly readable, indented output using:
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Stopping YouTube video when closing an overlay (modal/popup)
Sometime you want your videos to open in a nice overlay instead of a new window. There are many solutions for that (modals in BootStrap,
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Cloudflare offers many benefits: There’s the CDN which makes your site faster to reach in different locations. There’s the caching system which makes it even
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Many times we want to have an image or a banner with some text on it. The most simple solution is to embed the text
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There are many ways to debug code. Obviously, the most in-depth debug process is using a full blown debugger such as xDebug (more information can
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jQuery users are happy, they have:
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$( document ).ready |
If you wish to have a vanilla JavaScript solution, this is the one I’m using:
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Sometimes you want to use chrome’s developer tools to inspect an element which is changing. In my case I had a slider that was moving
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I would always prefer to avoid using an iframe, but sometimes it is the easy / only way out of a technical mess. If the
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The mysql_real_escape_string() prepares input for database storage: mysql_real_escape_string() calls MySQL’s library function mysql_real_escape_string, which prepends backslashes to the following characters: \x00, \n, \r, \, ‘, ” and
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As so many others, my company needed an alternative for its search engine. We were using Google Site Search (GSS) for years and were happy
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I always prefer the 24 hour time format. Windows 10 was set up to my region and showed the clock in the lower right corner
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Excel has some strange behaviors, one of them is that the “find & replace” function doesn’t work with hyperlinked content. In order to overcome
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If you wish to password protect a folder on the server and you want to use the server’s default protection do the following: We need
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