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JDUy: TechWhet: PHP: Special Character Encoding & those awful Black Diamonds with Questin Marks or Blank Squares

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Web development tips and tidbits I had to lookup to get to tomorrow (est. 2009). PHP: Special Character Encoding and those awful Black Diamonds with Questin Marks or Blank Squares. So, you get a weird character in your web output that might look like this:. The nation�s first extraterrestrial governor. You know it's a special character - maybe a angled apostrophe or curly quote, maybe some type of an accented character. This is likely caused by a problem with two different types of character encoding.

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JDUy: TechWhet: Enable/Disable Automatic Hyperlinking in Microsoft Outlook 2007

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Web development tips and tidbits I had to lookup to get to tomorrow (est. 2009). Enable/Disable Automatic Hyperlinking in Microsoft Outlook 2007. Turn on/off auto linking while your type an e-mail. For months, I've been doing unnecessary work to links in Outlook 2007, Microsoft's ubiquitous e-mail program. When I pasted a link into the body of the e-mail, it would not turn blue and underline like it was linked. Earlier versions did this before, (even when i didn't want it to). Click on [Mail Format] tab.

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JDUy: TechWhet: CSS: How to Center Floated Objects?

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Web development tips and tidbits I had to lookup to get to tomorrow (est. 2009). CSS: How to Center Floated Objects? So, you're thinking, maybe:. I have these boxes inside a big box. Or boxes inside of a table cell. And they don't line up right in a pleasant way. I want the layout to be more reponsive. And so maybe you decide to have them layout in an automatic fashion using float, like this:. It's not horrible, but it could look better, right? So, how do you get a float to center inside the box? Click t...

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JDUy: TechWhet: Javascript: How to use less than or greater than ranges in a Switch ... Case statement

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Web development tips and tidbits I had to lookup to get to tomorrow (est. 2009). Javascript: How to use less than or greater than ranges in a Switch . Case statement. There are several ways to make decisions in Javascript. Basically, you have a value and a test. The value could be a number (999) or a string ("female") or boolean (true). The test is always going to be, "Is it true that the value is this condition? Is the number 999? Is the string "female"? Is the boolean true? If (value = test). For examp...

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JDUy: TechWhet: TinyMCE pop-up window too small: Auto-resizes and collapses to annoying dimensions

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Web development tips and tidbits I had to lookup to get to tomorrow (est. 2009). TinyMCE pop-up window too small: Auto-resizes and collapses to annoying dimensions. For users of TinyMCE's Javascript-based text editor, there is one particular annoyance that happens with pop-up windows. Examples of pop-up windows are:. HTML Source Editor dialog. One thing you can try to do is to edit your tiny.MCE.init (). You can add or activate this line to your configuration:. Plugins : "inlinepopups",. Javascript: How ...

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JDUy: TechWhet: Facebook: Difference between LIKE and FOLLOW buttons.

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Web development tips and tidbits I had to lookup to get to tomorrow (est. 2009). Facebook: Difference between LIKE and FOLLOW buttons. So, you want to use Facebook's Social Plugins on your website. As of January 2014, the following options are available:. So, there's two Like buttons and a Follow button. What's the difference? Like vs. Follow buttons. According to Facebook's documentation:. The Follow button is intended for use by individual members. The Like Box is for special "Pages" on Facebook. It's ...

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JDUy: TechWhet: Javascript: How to create an Object

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Web development tips and tidbits I had to lookup to get to tomorrow (est. 2009). Javascript: How to create an Object. It's been a while since I've used Javascript extensively, so forgive me if I'm not entirely accurate on this. But, here some basics about Objects. There are basically two ways to make objects. METHOD #1 - Create a blank Object. Here, you can use the reserved JS object, called "Object" with a capital "O". And then use dot notation to add properties and methods. Creature = new Object();.

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JDUy: TechWhet: Google Docs: Replace Text / Date in Currently Selected Range of Cells: Google Spreadsheet Text to Columns Script

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Web development tips and tidbits I had to lookup to get to tomorrow (est. 2009). Google Docs: Replace Text / Date in Currently Selected Range of Cells: Google Spreadsheet Text to Columns Script. A Text to Columns function for Google's Spreadsheets. This covers 2 topics:. Change non-standard text format to a date - using a formula. Change an existing values in a Google Spreadsheet - using a custom script. Using a Google Sheet formula to convert YYYYMMDD to a standard date. So, to see the correct value, yo...

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JDUy: TechWhet: Force an automatic @Mention on a Facebook post: Link to Group or Individual in FB comment

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Web development tips and tidbits I had to lookup to get to tomorrow (est. 2009). Force an automatic @Mention on a Facebook post: Link to Group or Individual in FB comment. When making a Facebook post or comment you have the ability to link to another facebook page without using a hyperlink. Facebook has changed how this works a couple of times, but currently (April 2013), the technique that works is to use an AT SYMBOL - @ - followed by the name. And it's not very helpful at all. When you type @Mary Quit...

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JDUy: TechWhet: Javascript: Can I "pass by reference" in Javascript?

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Web development tips and tidbits I had to lookup to get to tomorrow (est. 2009). Javascript: Can I "pass by reference" in Javascript? Some languages allow programmers to "pass arguments by reference." In essence, this means that a variable or objects can be sent to a function; and when that variable or object is changed inside of the function, those changes are also made to the original variable or object outside of the function. Var $cost = 55;. Var $discount = .2;. Echo $cost; / OUTPUT WILL STILL BE 55.