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Scrape the First Paragraph & Image from a Wikipedia Entry

Automate fetching Wikipedia descriptions and images for webpage content. Render content dynamically based on specific keywords.

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Blogger Template Wizardry

Google’s Blogger is the eighth most popular site on the entire Web today, and by far the most popular free blogging site. According to Google, Blogger now hosts over 300 million blogs and publishes 388 million words per day – simply staggering figures. Let’s look at some of the more compelling reasons for Blogger’s popularity.

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HTML Email Compatibility Across Mail Clients

Lots of compatibility issues occur when HTML developers deal with HTML-formatted emails generated using server side languages like PHP, PERL, JAVA, etc. in their projects. From time to time you’ll find the odd gobbledygooked message in your Web-based ...

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Dual form processing

Recently, a client of mine wanted a single web form, residing on the localhost to submit the form contents to a database in the localhost, and as well as to a web server simultaneously. Although this sounds like an unnecessary duplication of data, my client wanted some of the form data to be stored on ...

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No IE6 support on new W3C website?

W3.org is overhauling its website in order to make it more user-friendly and quiet people who used to wonder (including me) why the administrator body of web have such dull, flat, unorganized and old fashioned website? The new website looks more attractive and organized. 10 minutes tour of new website ...

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See, Yes! Yes! – GO

Modular CSS needs to be developed and all inherited properties needs to commented within CSS declaration so one don’t repeat same CSS again and selectors needs to named by some naming convention (e.g. prefixing every declaration by module).

Modules needs to be devised in such way so it remain plug and play if plugged in different application.

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See, Yes! Yes! – STEADY

Not every validated webpage is accessible or ideal but every invalid web page is bad. So always try to validate. First by validating from validators and then by common sense, because technically a page with thousands of nested DIVs are valid. button stimulated out of div is valid. But question is… Is it really?

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Philosophy of Object Oriented Programming and Software Design

Now, I am no expert in OOP or software design, but here’s a philosophy which might help you make the most of what you know about OOP and software design.

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See, Yes! Yes! – READY

In today's web arena, CSS has proved its importance in rigid way. Web content is no more targeted to web browsers only, Web content is been served for a verity of media now days. To efficiently handle such situation CSS plays a very crucial role. In order to extract maximum pulp from CSS fruit there are ...

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How to hold a more effective code review

I found a very interesting article about Code Review that I'd like to share. The article was written by Andrew Stellman and you can read it at Head First Labs in the address http://www.oreillynet.com/headfirst/blog/2008/09/how_to_hold_a_more_effective_c.html. Enjoy!

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Apache SSL – For Secure online transactions

Hey you are planning to start a e-commerce website, then you must know about SSL without which no one will trust your website as a safe place to use their cards... What is SSL? SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a protocol used for secure data transfer. This is done by using private keys and certificates. A private ...

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Yes, I’m an OOP developer! But Design Patterns?!?

"Well, I went pretty fine on my Object-Oriented experience. I've learned something about polymorphism, inheritance, encapsulation and now I really know how to extend a class! I'm ready for developing cool object-oriented applications." But what about the design? No, no... I don't mean that design where you place the squares and circles in their places, draw ...

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