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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
This tutorial was written to teach you how to do quick and simple vector water drops in Adobe Illustrator. Water drops are something that many people have problems with for some reason, but they can be quite simple. Today I'm going to show you a simple way to make these ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
This tutorial will show you the basics on how to create florals in Adobe Illustrator CS3. Illustrator is the perfect tool for these types of graphics, and your about to see why. Lets get to work.
1. Open Adobe Illustrator and create a new drawing. First of we're going to need ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Introduction
I build database driven websites constantly. In fact this very website is driven by not just one, but two different databases, in two different languages, with hooks written by two different groups. They are great for what they do, and for what they provide, however they are the also the ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
This is a Quick Tip on how to connect to a MySQL database using Perl. Even though many other languages are sneaking their way onto Perl's turf. There is still a great demand for Perl on the web, so don't forget one of it's primary uses. Here's the code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use DBI;
$database ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
This is a Quick Tip on how to connect to MySQL with PHP. We have all done it from time to time, but sometimes we forget just how to connect to those pesky MySQL databases directly using PHP. So here's how it's done:
<?php
function open( ){$db = mysql_connect( 'localhost', 'root', ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
More times then not I have needed the use of a webserver to test various portions or web design that I'm working on for a client. In years past, this was not the easiest thing to do. You would first have to download your web server, and configure it for ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Barbara Ling spells out exactly how to get lots of Digg love!
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Technical writing is a skill that will not only help you to better understand a software or system that you are working with, but also will help you to build credibility before others in an organization, especially as a knowledge expert regarding the topic or areas you are covering in ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
In the first part of this five part series we covered how to start our design process from finding faults with our existing site to setting design criteria for our new site. I would recommend reading the first part of this tutorial before starting this section or some of the ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Over 40 PhotoShop topics are covered in these free video tutorials, including PhotoShop Elements. Other PhotoShop topics covered in these tutorials include actions, animation, banners, blending, brushes, buttons, layers, layouts, logos, masking, painting, special effects, text effects and more...
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