Recently I have been studying traffic patterns from search engines to this particular website to see where my sources of traffic are coming from. Over 65% of my traffic is directed here by search engines, with Google dominating at around 90% of the total search traffic, i.e. 58% of traffic to my site is directed… Yearning to read the remainder of “Bing Is Worse Than Yahoo! As A Search Engine?” Click the link!

With the introduction of the CSS3 border-radius style tags, web developers can now easily create rounded corner design elements that previously required a lot of intensive fiddling with itty-bitty graphics and multiple div tags. Judging by the number of websites out there that use rounded corners in a lot of their design elements (including this… Continue reading the rest of this article

The ability to set a different colour on each edge of the border around an element is coming. No more slicing up GIFs or PNGs , no more layering of DIV sections! Setting border edge colours in CSS3 is still not widely supported (as of this writing only Firefox supports it) but by the next… Click this link to continue reading the remainder of the post

How do you create coloured borders with CSS3? With the new border-color tags of course! The border-color tag permits a web designer to be very specific about the colours used in the border of an HTML element. As the W3C inches their way towards delivering on the promise of CSS3, many more browsers are beginning… Need to get the remainder of “Creating Coloured Borders With CSS3?” Click this link!

Instance variables belonging to an Objective-C 2.0 class are declared protected by default, unlike regular C++ or even C# whereby all declared member variables are private by default. This always confuses C++/C# programmers who are new to Objective-C so if you are familiar with either of those two languages, be aware of this point. Protection… Click this link to read the rest of “Objective-C Access To Instance Variables.”

Replacing text in a mySQL database table is trivial thanks to the built-in SQL command REPLACE() that lets you manipulate text data within a table that matches a particular string, and replace it with another string. I have been playing extensively with the theme on this website recently and one of the cute little hacks… Needing to get the rest of “How To Find And Replace Text In SQL?” Click the link!

I managed to fix the issues with the desktop version of Safari and how this website looks. Gotta love the new CSS3 capabilities. Gotta hate Internet Explorer 8 and 9 for not supporting them. I implemented border-image around my <pre><code> blocks that highlight the source code instead of wrapping them in <div> tags with a… Needing to get the remainder of “Fixed Desktop Safari Issues, iPad Next?” Click this link!

Safari is doing some funky things when displaying this website. I’m working on it. Stay tuned.

The built-in array() data type has many ways that it can be manipulated. One of those ways is through the array_shift() function that treats an array as a queue, taking array elements from the front of the queue and moving up all of the other items in the array. When you define an array that… Continue reading the rest of this post

A little over a month ago I interviewed with a small start-up company in Los Angeles doing some very cool work on a serious game for military and medical usage. Essentially it is an ultrasound simulation game that teaches medical personnel how to read an ultrasound image. This particular company had a unique twist on… Click this link to continue reading the rest of the post