Thursday, November 22nd, 2012

HTML Reference

This is an (X)HTML summary listing all of the (X)HTML tags and the attributes that each supports. The list excludes those tags and attributes that have been deprecated or which were never part of the standards in the first place. Those which are mandatory, those which are optional but which ought to always be used [...]

Sunday, October 21st, 2012

CICS commands

One of the main ways that mainframe computers provide for interactive programs is via CICS (pronounced “kicks”). This reference page lists all of the common commands that you are likely to need to use in writing a CICS program including all of the parameters that can be specified with these commands. CICS commands

Saturday, July 14th, 2012

PL/1 Statement Reference

All programming languages have a number of words that have special meanings in that language. These are known as reserved words and they can only be used in the appropriate parts of the programming code where they are intended by the language to be used. Trying to use a reserved word for something else will [...]

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

Display Controls

On the fourteenth reference page on CSS2.1 I cover just one setting but a very important one – display. This is the one that determines how each element in your page will be displayed and therefore can have a dramatic effect on the overall appearance of the page. Display Controls

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Positioning Controls

The eighth CSS reference page covers the options for positioning elements within your web page. Positioning Controls

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

Background Controls

The seventh page of my CSS reference covers the options available for defining what goes behind your content in your web page. Background Controls

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

JavaScript Strings

JavaScript is extremely powerful when it comes to being able to manipulate text. The variety of methods available to find, change, extract, insert and otherwise manipulate text in JavaScript cover just about everything you are likely to want and you can easily add your own methods to cover things that have been left out. JavaScript [...]

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

SQL in a Nutshell

There are many different relational databases that support SQL and this book is not only a thorough reference of all the standard SQL commands but it also covers four popular implementations and how they vary from the strict standards. Read my review of the book “SQL in a Nutshell“.

Monday, August 4th, 2008

The Ultimate HTML Reference

After reviewing “The Ultimate CSS Reference” I had high expectations of this book. Unfortunately this book failed to live up to those expectations as my review explains. The Ultimate HTML Reference

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Procedure Division Statements

One of the types of page that I occasionally add to the site are reference pages where I list all of the commands or options available when using a particular language. One page I wrote some time ago was one listing all of the commands that can be used in COBOL. Procedure Division Statements

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

XHTML Reference

One of the oldest sections of the Ask Felgall web site is the series of reference pages on XHTML 1.0. Of corse its having been there for over seven years doesn’t mean that the information those pages contain are not still useful since the XHTML 1.0 standards are still the same today as they were [...]