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You may or may not know about the PHP $_SERVER variable, HTTP_REFERER. It is meant to hold the URL of the previously visited page that the user has been to. Also, you may already use this variable in buttons or …

I was browsing for the best web 2.0 apps recently, when I found a category winner: Linked In. I’m not much for signing up for fad apps all the time, but I was interested in the connections that Linked In …

As I stumble through the web today, I found a new version of the famous Lightbox JS. A quick look at the examples and I was impressed with the improvements. I know how hard it is to fade an entire …

Recently I was working on a piece of code that would show or hide particular elements based on a Radio option’s ‘checked’ property. I used the onChange event to fire my code, because that’s what I was doing to the …

A new version of PHP Ajax File Browser is now available. It fixes two major problems: Fixed normal user account admin privileges bug Fixed accented characters prevented from listing. Still has some display problems in IE6. Download Download AjaxFB 2.0.1 …

Today I launch another small database site. Snippets.jc21.com is a database of useful pieces of code from any language you may use. I often use different computers to code, or sometimes forget to backup my snippets before a re-format. So …

Recently it was brought to my attention that I should use the Yahoo UI Library to solve a problem I’ve had. Having used these tools when they were first released I thought they were cool at the time. Now I …

Recently it was announced that Zend and Microsoft are collaborating to ensure PHP will run on Windows IIS servers with equal (or close enough) performance of Linux/Apache servers. While all reports claim that “it’s giving users another choice not to …

Update: Version 2.0.1 is available. Update post found here. After the success of the PHP Ajax File Browser V1.1, I’ve re-invented the wheel with this new version. It’s not just a simple file browser anymore!Here’s a list of features (some …

I don’t normally rave about little things like backgrounds, icons or mouse cursors… But my latest preview with Vista RC1 showed me that the mouse cursors look cool. So I wanted to get them, knowing that someone out there would …