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Warning: mysql_affected_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource

February 2, 2010

• My SQL

Warning: mysql_affected_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource

Capitalize First Letter in Word – Actionscript 2

February 1, 2010

• Actionscript

You have a string and you want to capitalize the first character but have the rest of the word in lowercase.

HP Pavilion Laptop Madness

January 28, 2010

I have got an HP laptop and have started experiencing problems with it starting up for the past few months, it is only about 1.

Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX

January 27, 2010

Below is a very interesting article I found that proves all the myths about DirectX being better than OpenGL, a very well written paper describing it best.

What does __FILE__ in php mean?

January 26, 2010

• Php

In php there are a few magic constants and I find FILE to be a very useful one.

Woopra Failed to Connect?

January 26, 2010

I have used Woopra for a few months now and have started seeing this warning/error almost everyday now:

Change PHP Session Time

January 25, 2010

• Php

The default time for a php session is 1440 seconds.

Stop mouse click in browsers

January 8, 2010

There have been multiple ways to stop your user/s from right clicking on your site, but many of them now fail due to the way firefox’s contextual menu loads.

Microsoft apps never care!

January 8, 2010

I often seem to have this issue when dealing with Microsoft software.

Place HTML Div on top of Flash

January 8, 2010

If you have ever tried to place a div or similar HTML element on top of a swf flash object you will know that it always tries to take precedence.

Get current working directory of php script/application

January 8, 2010

• Php

$myPath = realpath(dirname(__FILE__)); or $myPath = getcwd();

Stage align and Stage scale in actionscript 3

January 8, 2010

• Actionscript

If you want to position the flash top/left and not have it scale when you resize it’s bounding box window, you can set the following code.

Error 406?

January 6, 2010

So you received an error 406 while trying to upload a file and you have no idea to fix it!

Firefox error in FeedProcessor.js

January 6, 2010

• Javascript

[Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIChannel.contentType]” nsresult: “0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)” location: “JS frame :: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/FeedProcessor.

mySQL select multiple ids

December 18, 2009

• My SQL

SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE `active`='1' AND `id` IN ('107' , '125' ) ORDER BY `id` DESC LIMIT 12`

Force Download in PHP

December 16, 2009

• Php

This script works in all browsers, including Internet Explorer! 🙂

Remove an onRelease Handler

December 16, 2009

• Actionscript

After creating a onRelease handler in Actionscript 2 as follows:

shortText function toggler in php

December 15, 2009

• Php

I often have to show a shortened version of a news item and then a link to show the entire news article or whatever.

PHP – file() lines

December 15, 2009

• Php

$lines = file('all-words.txt'); foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) { echo "Line number ".

Windows Live Writer – Beta2

December 14, 2009

Start writing content to your blogs from your Windows Desktop now.