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I often find a need to scale buttons and background graphics to the correct size, but leave the edges at the same scale. So taking the button in Fig 1, if you simply scale it normally it looks like Fig 2, however I want to keep the borders the same like in Fig 3. So [...]

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SQLite [http://www.sqlite.org] is a very handy tool, essentially it creates a database in a file. SQLite V3 should be installed automatically with PHP5. I find SQLite very handy when I want to make standalone code that uses a database, and because it doesn’t require an external application(such as Mysql) it makes it very portable. I [...]

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GNU Screen is a free terminal multiplexer developed by the GNU Project since at least 1995. It allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. It is useful for dealing with multiple programs from the command line, and for separating programs from the shell that [...]

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This is quick tip to fix a problem that has always bugged me – When showing disk usage in a human readable form (KB, MB, GB) for each subdirectory using “du -sh *”, how can you properly sort it into size order. If you just want the solution here it it… pre.command { width:80%; background-color:#FFF5F5; [...]

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Learn by example how to scrape web pages using PHP and Xpath.

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