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“Web development” usually refers only to the non-design aspects of building web sites, e.g. writing markup and coding. Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, or social network services.
Software development is the set of activities that results in software products. Software development may include research, new development, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products. – Wikipedia

ie 7 min-width and button bug

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

A bug for anyone needing ie7 compatible forms using a min-width on the buttons. This also affects ie8 running in compatibility mode. input.submitbutton { min-width: 100px; } If you are using a min-width for your form submit buttons then sadly ie7 will align button text to the right of the button. It is un-fixable with [...]

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jQuery + Firebug = reduced repetitive work

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Have you ever had a page that needed styles applying to certain elements again and again (and again) in some sort of pattern. The finished page could have no js either. I just had a long page of tables that the 3rd column had to be formatted differently and it was a pain so I [...]

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HTML 5 Video – Flash Fallback

Saturday, March 13, 2010

I am nearing completion of the flash player that I have been developing this week. You can take a look at it in my development sandpit. This is the fall back player for browsers such as ie that don’t currently support HTML5 Video tags. The next part of this project will extend to include the [...]

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Objective C Timer

Thursday, January 22, 2009

This is a simple timer, you may need to declare some variables in the .h file. [code lang="c_mac"] -(void)onViewDidLoad { //set on start up NSDate *startTime = [NSDate date]; } [/code] [code lang="c_mac"] -(void)someOtherFunction { //amount to dely by (seconds) NSInteger *delayAmount = 1; //work out the current delay time NSTimeInterval elapsedTime = [startTime timeIntervalSinceNow]; [...]

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String to Number (integer)

Thursday, January 22, 2009

To convert a string of a number (“568″) to a integer (568): [code lang="c_mac"] //aString = "568" NSInteger *aNSintegerNumber = [aString integerValue]; //aNumber =568 [/code] or [code lang="c_mac"] //aString = "568" int *aIntNumber = [aString intValue]; //aIntNumber = 568 [/code]

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