Handy little site to test the speed of your internet connection.
Here is the result for my 3G card…
Speedtest.net result
http://www.speedtest.net/
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I got caught out using Javascripts location.reload(true); recently. I have a web-page which is destined to be displayed in a public area on a large screen, which unfortunately has a LARGE, static background image (not my design – promise!). The page must reload fairly frequently, and I don’t want the background image disappearing while it [...]  I battled for ages to find the correct syntax to create a trigger in MySQL — the examples I could find were all to complex and I could not get any of them to work. Here is a quick little example that you should find really easy to [...]  I have been using the Firebug extension for Firefox since being introduced to it at my interview for my job at [...] After spending many hours setting up Apache, MySQL, PHP & phpMyAdmin on my desktop PC, I remembered reading about XAMPP… In the word of the Apache Friends team: “XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and [...] I have added a feed from the blog to the homepage thanks to the nice people at FeedForAll: http://www.feedforall.com/ I have also started using FeedReader3 on my work PC to subscribe to various feeds, though you can just as easily subscribe to feeds using Internet Explorer and Outlook for instance. FeedReader available for a free on [...]  So I have been fiddling a bit with image formats. Most of us know that (and for those of you who don’t…) JPGs are most suited to photos and other images, and GIFs best for logos etc. GIF’s have the added advantage of being able to contain transparent areas. So when PNGs came along I was [...] Whilst many so-called “best practices” can be debated, there are a few that in my mind should be made law. One of them has to be ensuring that no page links to itself. It’s a small thing, but it does help to prevent confusion in the navigation of a site. I have used PHP to “disable” [...] |    | |||||
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