I went to two days conference of Web Design World Boston. And man, I tell you, it was inspiring. So much to learn, so much to do. Below is my random notes from the sessions that I attended:
From the happy-computing department: I am using my home server’s xemacs via X11 on Mac at work using planner mode and loving it. What a awesome way to take notes ect… I need to study more xemacs though. There are SO much you can do. I now need to figure out how to hook that [...]
Easty way to convert 2004-12-05 style date (mysql) to December 5, 2004 in PHP //format date for printing //I already have variable $mysqlDate which is 2004-12-05 //Remove the ‘-’ from the standar MySQL sate format list($Year,$Month,$Day) = split(‘-’,$mysqlDate); //Create a UNIX style timestamp from the result $stampeddate = mktime(12,0,0,$Month,$Day,$Year); $displayDate = date(“F j, Y”,$stampeddate); print [...]
PHP-MySQL really simple example <?php // Connecting, selecting database $link = mysql_connect(“localhost”, “_USERNAME_”, “_PASSWORD_”) or die(‘Could not connect: ‘ . mysql_error()); echo ‘Connected successfully’; mysql_select_db(“_DB_NAME_”) or die(‘Could not select database’); // Performing SQL query $query = ‘SELECT * FROM _TABLE_NAME_ ‘; echo ‘Query successfully’; $result = mysql_query($query) or die(‘Query failed: ‘ . mysql_error()); echo [...]
I am doing re-thinking of japaneseballplayers.com‘s site structure and pourpose. I am converting all of it to be xhtml css and backend will be php-mysql. It will be heavily database driven. One of the thing that I want it to have is quicker access to the stats/info form other sites. So here is my research [...]
I am tired and going to bed but… I spend last three hours assembling the computer and it doesn’t work! It beeps quick twice then beeps 9 times. Here is a awesome site for refernceing hwo to figure out the Bios beeps. An my mother board is K7 Upgrade 880 from ASROCK, so AMI 4MB [...]
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