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PHP String manipulation

PHP String manipulation

String manipulation in php is rather an easy affair, here is some simple methods to find strings within strings, extract strings, find out the length of a string and all that fun stuff kids like to do nowadays.

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Photoshop CS4 Basics: Layer Management

When you start to work in a company doing any type of design you realize that organization is a key aspect of your working routine (if its a good company anyway). One of the things which especially annoyed me when starting wuup is Alan’s terrible photoshop layer structure.

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PHP Basics: Break out of loops (stopping a loop)

PHP Basics: Break out of loops (stopping a loop)

Hello, so you have a common loop for($i = 0; $i < $j; ++$i){ } but you may want to stop the loop before the loop finished, so how do you do this? You use the break statement! so using the previous example, lets add a break statement to it for($i = 0; $i < [...]

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AS3 Basics: Breaking out of loops (stopping loops)

AS3 Basics: Breaking out of loops (stopping loops)

Hi There, So many of us use loops for a vast array of things, sometimes though you’ll want to stop a loop from executing further.
So the answer to the problem? the ‘break’ statement!

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PHP directory scanning

PHP directory scanning

Here is the code i have mocked up to check the root directory and 1 directory down for a dir specified in $mainDirArray and then it will exit out of the loop. $mainBLDirArray are dirs to avoid. Hope this helps, probably not the most optimised way to do it but works well in testing. $conn_id1 [...]

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Jailbreaking 3rd Gen iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running on firmware 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and 3.2

Hey chaps, As you may have read recently, I bought a new iPod Touch 32GB 3G with the intention of jailbreaking it and buzzing through the directory of tweaks, mods and general unwanted naughtiness on Apple’s gadgetry. However, hours before the said iPod Touch 3g arrived, a brief skip through a Google search for jailbreaking [...]

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Flex 4: Getting a reference to the host application or host mxml from ItemRenderers

Flex 4: Getting a reference to the host application or host mxml from ItemRenderers

Sometimes you have a custom ItemRenderer. That has, perhaps, a button that needs to access one of the methods of you’re main application. how would you accomplish this? read on…

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Android tutorial 1 – Basic Button

Last time I posted, it was with the iphone tutorial on how to make a iPhone app that changes a text field to a value once a button is pressed. Well I am here once more, but this time it is with Android!

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AS3 Flex: Spark DropDownList Dataprovider problems (blank first item)

AS3 Flex: Spark DropDownList Dataprovider problems (blank first item)

Hey all, Just encountered a bit of a strange bug in my flex app.

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iPhone tutorial 1 – basic button

I dislike doing “hello world!” tutorials, so instead I shall show you how to make a button! Buttons are more cool you see ;)
First go and get the iPhone SDK(Software Development Kit) from developer.apple.com
If you are on a windows PC, I’m afraid that you can not do this tutorial. The iPhone SDK is limited to Mac OS X based computers.

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