August 17th, 2009

You've seen this sort of thing everywhere. It's the new "web 2.0 thing" to do (at least I think so). Instead of displaying the time formatted a certain way no matter how recent it was, you can have "posts about X minutes ago". It gives a new twist to how dates are normally formatted. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple PHP function that will accomplish this task for you.
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May 9th, 2009

I was working on my CMS a couple days ago when I was trying to remove an item from an array by value. I tried to find a function already built into PHP but couldn't. I developed this little function to do this simple task for me.
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May 3rd, 2009

About a month ago, Jeffery Way posted an article about creating shapes with pure CSS, no images added. I've been using the CSS3 property of border radius a lot in a design I've been working on and thought, "why can't I use this to make circles?" Today, I'll show you how to make your very own CSS circles. In addition, we will use our new knowledge to create a simple jQuery plugin!
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May 2nd, 2009

I don't care what anybody tells me, PHP security is the number one thing I'm concerned about when writing a script. If you were to directly input data from $_POST or $_GET into a MySQL database, you could (and probably will) be in for a world of trouble. Today I'll walk you through the steps of creating a very easy to use input sanitize function in PHP.
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