Show/Hide and the Pilcrow
I have admittedly referred to the ΒΆ symbol as anything from the “Show/Hide symbol” to the “funny backwards P sign”…
PowerShell script to copy folders using a CSV listing
Many of the computer labs are set up as follows: the learners log into a Windows server and a script…
Backing up a MySQL database using PHP’s system() & MySQL’s mysqldump
The PHP system() function is used to execute an external program. Because MySQL already has a built-in tool for creating…
How to use PHP To Backup & Restore a MySQL Database Table
This is how to backup and restore a MySQL table using a PHP script. Please note: this is an old…
“Shrink to Fit” Excel cell formatting
This was a truly esoteric question in the NSC P1 Prelim 2020. I was not aware of this setting: I…
Hidden text in Microsoft Word
This question pops up quite regularly in assessments: how to set the “Hidden” attribute on the selected text. We have…
Compare Plugin for Notepad++
Anyone who has spent any time working on a dev team will have some war stories to tell about code…
Central Processing Unit
People frequently refer to the CPU as the “brain” of the computer. This analogy is poor as the human brain…
Creating a fixed footer with CSS
A webpage often contains too little content to fill the vertical height of the browser portal. This means that any…