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Laying Out a Website with Inkscape

The other day I decided to revamp my website but with the slightly difference that in my house I have a Linux Unit with Ubuntu 13.12. So I don’t have the option of any Adobe brand product, first because I want to proof that open source rocks, so I give Inkscape™ a try, my favorite […]

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Handling a Keyword Search with PHP/MySQL (MATCH/AGAINST MySQL Function)

For the longest time I used the MySQL ‘LIKE’ statement style for searching by keywords, which it is probably the most reliable and fastest option. But today I’m going to talk about another option you have to create a more effective keyword search and get the result from MySQL order by keywords relevance. For this […]

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How to Avoid Having Sensitive Data Exposed

There are few reasons why you have to have sensitive information inside a class, but the one in the top of these reasons is because many hosting services does not allow you to have access to your root folder or even to your php.ini file. This is a big problem specially if you have a […]

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How to Create a PHP Class

PHP is shifting into a mayor coding method, from procedural scripting to object oriented scripting, Class is one of the most important aspect your need to learn to take advantage of this shifting. PHP is not the same as it was before since PHP 4+. Resource: Hello World Class Over the years I found myself […]

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Installing Apache, PHP and MySQL in Ubuntu 12.10

Preparing your new Ubuntu 12.10 computer for web developing can be intimidating, especially if you are not used to Ubuntu or Linux environment, as I am. There’s a lot of help from the community but sometimes they are kind of rough when someone like me ask a noob question, but hey!… at least they answer […]

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Data Injection

Database Injection alert has become a pain in the back lately, after the resent SQL injection against MySQL main website, I start researching about Data Injection myself and I found a lot information that might be helpful for many my fellow designers and coders. What’s A Data Injection? If it’s the first time you heard about […]

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RegExp Filter For URL’s

I was trying to get a nice short Regular Expression to filter and validate the url’s entered by an user in an form, and finally I come up with one that you can use as your first pass filter that its been working fine for me. It’s not a perfect one, but at least filter […]