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Archive for December, 2007

Upgrading Invision Powerboard 1.2 and 1.3 to use PHP5 and MySQL5

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Invision Powerboard 1.2 and 1.3 are still used by many people because they’re free, where the newest versions are not. However, the coding for them isn’t 100% compatible with the latest versions of PHP and MySQL. Many web hosting companies are moving to PHP5 and MySQL5, and this will break the default installation […]

Rails Select Helper

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Ruby on Rails has a bunch of built in tools to make it easy to create HTML form elements. In fact, there are so many different ones that it’s sometimes confusing to know which one to use.
Here is an example of how to build a static drop down box with the display text and […]

Mozilla Thunderbird 2 vs. Microsoft Outlook Express 6

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Outlook Express is installed for free by default with Windows and thus, it’s a common default choice among people new to the Internet and Email. Outlook Express does the basics of what an email client must do, but that’s the extent of its scope. You can have multiple email accounts, but all of […]

Ruby on Rails lessons applied to PHP

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Ruby on Rails is a programming framework for building websites using the Ruby language. Everything is set up to work a certain way; for example, the MVC (Model-View-Controller) model. What this means is that database stuff is put in the model area, the controller contains application logic, and the view contains mostly HTML. […]

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