What are people excited about these days in the developer community? CSS is a huge one, and so is JS. Some of the CSS implementations are completely absurd and disgraceful towards CSS while others I, and many of my colleagues say “about time!”. The funny thing is, most of these features IE has had working for, well, over a decade now.
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I noticed a lot of people are searching my site for this and use dynoBox, but for basic functionality to simply delete the default text in the search box on when a user clicks on it is actually very easy. Here is the example functionality.
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Posted in (X)HTML, Programming, jQuery

If you were like me the first time you try to grab a feed via AJAX from another server you’ll spend quite some time trying to figure out why the hell your script isn’t working when everything is written perfectly. Then you do some research and find out you’re not allowed to use AJAX from server to server due to security issues. Darn it. Well, here is the work around I’ve been using for quite some time, and best of all, it’s only 2 lines of PHP and 1 line of jQuery.
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Posted in PHP, Programming, jQuery

I wanted a way to encode emails so spam bots couldn’t steal emails on my Conrete5 site. At the same time I didn’t want the client to have to do anything different than he or she normally would to add an email through the WYSIWYG editor. I searched the forums and found a few solutions, however, they all had bugs. Worst of all, no one ever told anyone how or where to place the code! So here is how you can fight spam in C5:
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I was migrating a site from one server to another today and when I got the following error on the sub pages:

An unexpected error occurred.
mysql error: [-32000: Cache write error] in CacheExecute(/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/files/cache/adodb_f8ef8a1da1760f6850996980e28019c6.cache, select cParentID from Pages where cID = '55')
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