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IE7 Conditional Comments and XSL

Submitted by Katy on Tue, 18/03/2008 - 03:39

About conditional comments

Conditional comments in Internet Explorer 7 are a way to ensure only IE or non-IE browsers parse certain parts of a page. This is mostly used to include CSS compatibility hacks by way of a <link> element in the page header, but they can in fact wrap any amount of HTML anywhere in the document.

SharpTools: HTTP GET, POST, uploading files and cookie/session authentication in C#

Submitted by Katy on Sat, 26/01/2008 - 18:24

Downloads for the software described here are available on the downloads page.

Blimey. You'd think in the 21st century retrieving web pages and POSTing forms and file uploads in the .NET framework would be a quick and painless exercise. But apparently, this isn't the case, so here's a quick and dirty class library to do it for you.

How to tidy up badly formatted XML with an XSL stylesheet

Submitted by Katy on Mon, 21/01/2008 - 21:40

How do you turn this:

Tutorial: Cross-platform background process forking without extensions in PHP

Submitted by Katy on Fri, 09/02/2007 - 13:36

There are plenty of ways to fork new processes in PHP. You can use shell functions like exec() or shell(), the pcntl_* function set in the Process Control extension or stream/filesystem functions such as popen(). In this article, we're going to look at the latter of these, and learn:

PHPCron: Running scheduled tasks from PHP on a web server

Submitted by Katy on Tue, 17/10/2006 - 09:37

Downloads for the software described here are available on the downloads page.

This software is a work in progress and should not be considered complete or secure.

Unique key grouping with multiple input documents and nodeset variables

Submitted by Katy on Fri, 08/09/2006 - 12:24

The problem

A common requirement in XSL transformations is to group unsorted data by a key unique to each group, and sort it for display. For example:

Automatic WSDL Generation in PHP 5

Submitted by Katy on Thu, 27/07/2006 - 01:19

Downloads for the software described here are available on the downloads page.

PHP Test Chassis (updated 26-Jul-2006)

Submitted by Katy on Wed, 19/07/2006 - 01:05

Downloads for the software described here are available on the downloads page.

AJAX JavaScript Control

Submitted by Katy on Sat, 03/06/2006 - 01:03

Downloads for the software described here are available on the downloads page.

Recently AJAX has become quite trendy among web developers, it was first brought to my attention when we used Frappr on our radio station to show a world map of listeners during a New Year's special broadcast.

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