Computer Science History Series: Ada Lovelace

With the popularity of the last Computer Science History story about Alan Turing, we decided to take a closer look at another fascinating story.  Ada Augusta Byron (Ada Lovelace) was born on December 10, 1815.  I know what you’re thinking: Continue reading

An Introduction to using PHP Data Objects or PDO

For a long time, I simply used mysql_connect(), mysql_query(), etc to handle all of my database work from within PHP.  Don’t get me wrong, this works just fine.  However, I had heard about PDO (PHP Data Objects) a while back Continue reading

Free Apps: Eclipse

A while back, we published an article chock full of free apps.  There was a lot of stuff that we left out though.  One of the glaring holes was in the Programming/Development section.  We completely left out Eclipse.  One reason Continue reading

HTML Colors – A Complete Guide

HTML Colors What do those html hex values for colors actually mean?  Well, I intend to explain it as clearly as possible right here.  HTML colors aren’t supposed to be complex or confusing.  The hex values are six digits following Continue reading

The Death of Mobile Flash

Today, Adobe announced that it is cutting Mobile Flash along with 750 jobs. “Over the past two years, we’ve delivered Flash Player for mobile browsers and brought the full expressiveness of the web to many mobile devices, however, HTML5 is Continue reading

Get a Paginated Grid of Results Using PHP/MySQL

Have you ever tried to create a nice grid of MySQL results before? Perhaps something 4 items across and 4 items down with pagination for more than 16 results? Well, let’s go ahead and build that here so you can Continue reading