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

February 2, 2010

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


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Capitalize First Letter in Word – Actionscript 2

February 1, 2010

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


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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.


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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.


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What does __FILE__ in php mean?

January 26, 2010

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


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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:


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Change PHP Session Time

January 25, 2010

The default time for a php session is 1440 seconds.


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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.


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Microsoft apps never care!

January 8, 2010

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


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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.


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Get current working directory of php script/application

January 8, 2010

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


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Stage align and Stage scale in actionscript 3

January 8, 2010

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.


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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!


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Firefox error in FeedProcessor.js

January 6, 2010

[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.


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mySQL select multiple ids

December 18, 2009

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


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Force Download in PHP

December 16, 2009

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


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Remove an onRelease Handler

December 16, 2009

After creating a onRelease handler in Actionscript 2 as follows:


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shortText function toggler in php

December 15, 2009

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


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PHP – file() lines

December 15, 2009

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


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Windows Live Writer – Beta2

December 14, 2009

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


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