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Monday, September 22nd, 2008

“Website Optimization”

There are a number of different ways that the word “optimise” can be used in connection with web pages and this book manages to discuss all of them. The book itself is broken up into two main parts, the first dealing with optimising in connection with getting your web pages found, and the second dealing [...]

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

JavaScript Math Object

Don’t be put off by the fact that the Americans who defined this part of JavaScript do not know how to spell using proper English and misspelt maths. This static JavaScript object provides all of the most common irrational number constants as properties and all of the common maths functions as methods allowing you to [...]

Monday, September 15th, 2008

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 Strings

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

User Types in Windows XP

One of the biggest differences between XP Home and XP Pro is the support that it provides for running old versions of software that were written back before XP was released. As a lot of people only upgrade their software when they need additional functionality that the new version provides and which their old version [...]

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Game Settings

In many cases the games that you run on your computer will behave significantly differently from the way that most other programs run. Most of the programs that run on Windows actually call common functions that Windows provides in order to perform all of the common functions that a windows program generally needs such as [...]

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Page Rank

The page on your site that is the best match for a particular keyword isn’t always the page on your site that ranks the highest for that keyword. Sometimes you end up with another page on your site ranking higher.
Why is that so?
Page Rank is determined by a number of factors.

Monday, September 1st, 2008

XSLT

This huge book on XSLT is both an excellent introduction for those who haven’t used XSLT before as well as an excellent reference for the more experienced users.
Read my review of “XSLT“.

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Revised Personality Quiz

To finish with quizes for this week here is a revised unobtrusive version of my single personality quiz which allows two questions per page and up to eight different personalities
Revised Personality Quiz