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Author Archives: David Powers
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
Posted in Dreamweaver
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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
Posted in AJAX/JavaScript, Books, CSS, Dreamweaver
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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
Posted in MySQL, PHP
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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
Posted in Books, PHP
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Accessing PHP objects’ methods and properties
A couple of participants in Boston PHP‘s self-study PHP Percolate, Jim Wright and Jared Stenquist, are confused about the use of the -> operator, which is introduced on page 44 of PHP Solutions, 2nd Edition. Since others might be in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, PHP
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Join others learning PHP with PHP Solutions
So far, more than 90 people have signed up to join a self-study group organized by Boston PHP to learn PHP with the help of my book, PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, 2nd Edition. This is the third … Continue reading
Posted in Books, MySQL, PHP
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Book Review: The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston
Several months ago, I attended a fascinating talk on CSS3 by Peter Gasston at London Web. As one of the first people to ask a question during the Q&A session at the end of Peter’s talk, I received a free … Continue reading
Posted in Books, CSS
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Corrections for my books
I hate it when I find a mistake in a technical book—particularly when it’s one of mine. There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to learn a new concept and hitting a brick wall because the code doesn’t work. Mistakes creep … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dreamweaver, Flash, PHP
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My book on Dreamweaver CS5.5 is now available online
My new book, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 Studio Techniques: Designing and Developing for Mobile with jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3, is now available as Rough Cuts in the Safari Online Library and Creative Edge. In spite of being published as Rough Cuts, … Continue reading
Posted in AJAX/JavaScript, Books, CSS, Dreamweaver
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Taking Dreamweaver into the lions’ den
Last night, the good folks at London Web Standards allowed me to take the floor for a five-minute “lightning talk” to demonstrate some of the new features of Dreamweaver CS5.5, which had been officially announced only 14 hours earlier. It … Continue reading
Posted in AJAX/JavaScript, CSS, Dreamweaver
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