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The proper way to mark up changes to an HTML document, when you wish to retain the old content while displaying the new.

I <del>hate</del> <ins>LOVE</ins> my new iPod nano.

The browser defaults are usually a strikeout/cross-through of del, and …

Sometimes the time set on your server isn’t accurate to what your local time is. If you can’t change it, you can adjust it yourself.

$today = date('Y-m-d-G');
$today = strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H", strtotime("$today -5 hour"));

If your server thought it was …

The new design has been rolled out. Nothing to shockingly different I hope, just a refresher. It’s kind of hard to say, but I think this is the 5th significant iteration of the design at this point. The lines are …

Normally index.html or index.php is the default page a server serves up when visiting a directory without specifying a file name. You can change this with .htaccess:

DirectoryIndex index2.html

This code will cycle through an unordered list with an ID of ‘cyclelist’. Can be used on any element with children. Replace “ul#cyclelist li” with the elements you want to cycle through.

$(document).ready(function() {

	 var j = 0;
	 var delay 

If the file name exists, returns new file name with _number appended so you don’t overwrite it.

function file_newname($path, $filename){
    if ($pos = strrpos($filename, '.')) {
           $name = substr($filename, 0, $pos);
           $ext = substr($filename, $pos);
    } else {
           $name = 

<form action="http://maps.google.com/maps" method="get" target="_blank">
   <label for="saddr">Enter your location</label>
   <input type="text" name="saddr" />
   <input type="hidden" name="daddr" value="350 5th Ave New York, NY 10018 (Empire State Building)" />
   <input type="submit" value="Get directions" />
</form>

saddr = blank input field for entering START …

A one-pixel background image can be a pretty versatile thing. With repeat-x it can be a horizontal line, repeat-y makes a vertical line, and repeat makes it a fill color. Just as a little fun proof of concept, we can …

Append to a file

function fileWrite($file, $message) {
  fwrite(fopen($file, 'a'), $message . "\n");
}

Read and display entire file

function fileRead($file){
   $lines = file($file);
   foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
      echo  $line,  '</br>';
   }
}