Show/Hide and the Pilcrow
I have admittedly referred to the ¶ symbol as anything from the “Show/Hide symbol” to the “funny backwards capital P…
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 have never seen…
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…
Creating a fixed footer with CSS
A web page often contains too little content to fill the vertical height of the browser portal. This means that…