File Transfer Protocol is a protocol that runs on the Internet. In the same way that the HTTP was designed for digital documents such as HTML to be transferred, FTP…

I have admittedly referred to the ¶ symbol as anything from the “Show/Hide symbol” to the “funny backwards capital P sign” to the “paragraph mark“. It has a name: it…

Many of the computer labs are set up as follows: the learners log into a Windows server and a script sets up the PC they are working on with their…

The PHP system() function is used to execute an external program. Because MySQL already has a built-in tool for creating MySQL database backups, mysqldump, let’s use it from our PHP…

This is how to backup and restore a MySQL table using a PHP script. Please note: this is an old post and the scripts include deprecated PHP functions. Execute a…

This was a truly esoteric question in the NSC P1 Prelim 2020. I was not aware of this setting: I have never seen this before and have also never felt the need to…

This question pops up quite regularly in assessments: how to set the “Hidden” attribute on the selected text. We have all had the white-text-on-a-white-background fun in Word and HTML —…

Anyone who has spent any time working on a dev team will have some war stories to tell about code repositories. Managing large code-bases is a daunting task that requires…

People frequently refer to the Central Processing Unit (“CPU“) as the “brain” of the computer. This analogy is poor as the human brain both stores and processes data, while the…

A web page often contains too little content to fill the vertical height of the browser portal. This means that any attempt at a footer section looks silly as the…