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Author Archives: David Powers
Why I’m no longer a member of the London Dreamweaver Meetup
In November last year, I wrote about my hopes for the relaunch of the London Dreamweaver Meetup Group. I originally agreed to give a talk on 26 January about creating a simple jQuery Mobile site in Dreamweaver. The plan was … Continue reading
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New video PHP course for complete beginners
I’m delighted to announce that my new video course, Introducing PHP, has just been published by video2brain. The course contains nearly 5 hours of video instruction, starting with the installation of a PHP testing environment on your local computer, with … Continue reading
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Interesting two-for-one offer on video training
With the Christmas and year-end holiday season well and truly upon us, companies are all trying to outdo each other with special deals. My email inbox is certainly groaning with the onslaught of “buy now, never-to-be-repeated offers”. So, forgive me … Continue reading
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New tutorial: send a link to a friend
I’ve just published a new tutorial for a script that sends a link to a friend. It’s a very simple script, but—as long as you have a basic knowledge of PHP—you should be able to adapt it to your own … Continue reading
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Great training resource for web designers and digital artists
I’m a great fan of learning from books—that’s why I written so many. But there are times when a book just won’t do. Seeing and hearing an expert show you how to do something often has much more impact. Several … Continue reading
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Full Frontal Conference: A day out with JavaScript
Back in May, I wrote a two-part tutorial for beginners about JavaScript and jQuery, in which I said that “along with HTML and CSS, knowledge of JavaScript is a key skill that anyone involved in building websites should acquire”. I … Continue reading
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Dreamweaver user group for London and web standards
Last night, I attended a meeting of The London Dreamweaver Meetup Group. It was a quiet affair. Although six people had said they would attend, only three of us turned up—Nigel, the previous organizer, Reynold Chung, the new organizer, and … Continue reading
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An odd turn-up for the book
Yesterday, I received an invitation to review a new book about Dreamweaver. Nothing terribly remarkable about that. After all, I’m well known in the Dreamweaver community and I recently published a review of Peter Gasston’s excellent The Book of CSS3. … Continue reading
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Using num_rows with a MySQLi prepared statement
While refactoring some code that I had written about six years ago, I was puzzled by the MySQLi num_rows property constantly returning 0, even though I knew there were matching records in the database. It turns out that the problem … Continue reading
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What’s the difference between parameters and arguments?
When writing books aimed at beginners, there’s a difficult line to tread between giving too much and too little information. Too much information overloads the mind, running the risk of losing the reader’s enthusiasm for the subject. Too little information … Continue reading
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