Magic Tricks at Ad:Tech SF
Some magic tricks from ad:tech San Francisco from Acxiom’s exhibition.
Tech Tutorial: Cropping and Resizing Images in PHP
PHP is a great script language that has many applications when it comes to web development. It is a particularly useful tool when working with images. You can create and manipulate images files in variety of different formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF). If you are interested in manipulating animated GIFs, my coworker made a great tutorial about that. Today we’ll look at cropping and resizing images in PHP.
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Tech Tutorials: Building a Database
An important step in the process of building a website or web application is the conception of the data structure. Most of the problems that come up during the development of project come from a poorly conceived database. Bad modeling will create superfluous terms, incapacity and lost data. Good modeling makes the project more flexible for possible improvements. The more robust your model is, the less issues you will run intro when you retrieve data through PHP or ASP. It also makes access to the data faster and simpler.
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Tech Tutorial: Making Use of APIs
When I think of APIs, I see them as magical and amazing tools. There are more and more APIs made available by services on the web such as the Google Maps API, the Facebook API, the Twitter API, the Tumblr API, to name a few.
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Online Social Media Resources
Social media is one of the more disruptive concepts that has been changing way we use the Internet and interact with our peers. As its introduction has been not marked by a clear cut transition but rather a gradual shift (and constant change) in technologies and platforms, it’s important to stay current with news and opinions on the industry. Here are some resources that should help you find some footing.
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Online Technology Resources
Technology moves fast. Keeping up with all the news can be a job in and of itself. We put together this list of online technology resources to help you stay in the know.
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Tech Tutorial: Fixing CSS Float Issues
During the creation of a website, you will sometimes want to add the “float” CSS property to some of your containers to handle alignment within a container.
This CSS property specifies whether or not a box within an element should float.
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