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Browsers Explained

Deon — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:52:45 +0000

We as web developers sometimes take our knowledge for granted and forget that not everyone knows that there are browsers out there that aren’t our old nemesis, Internet Explorer. We forget that most people that come to us for development most likely grew up without the internet and never had the need to look further [...]

The importance of Wireframes and Specification Documents

Deon — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:39:23 +0000

As part of our quotation process for larger web based systems and sites we, like most decent developers, make use of Wireframes and Specification Documents (Spec Docs) after delivering our initial ball-park quote, to plan the entire system before delivering an in-depth quotation. After all, the five P’s taught us that “Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance” [...]

HTML 101, Part 4 – Attributes

Abraham — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:10:13 +0000

« HTML101 Part 3 As you learned in Part 1 of this series, an HTML tag specifies the meaning of some content. Oftentimes though, the tag itself does not provide enough information, so HTML tags have what are called attributes, which can be seen as a way of specifying configuration options for that tag. Shape [...]

HTML 101, Part 3 – Tags

Nico — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:41:47 +0000

« HTML101 Part 2 || HTML101 Part 4 » Now that we have scratched the surface of HTML, we’re going to start delving deeper. It’s time to start learning more about tags. Display of tags You’ve just completed your first “Hello world” HTML page: Now we saw the “Hello World” display in the browser when [...]

HTML 101, Part 2 – Setup

Deon — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:02:06 +0000

« HTML101 Part 1 || HTML101 Part 3 » Welcome back to HTML Bootcamp, recruit. Today we will be covering editing environments, setting up your very first HTML document and testing it in a web browser. So let’s not waste any time and get down to business! 1. Editors When you’re on the battlefield you [...]

HTML 101, Part 1 – Introduction

Gerrit — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:49:05 +0000

« Web Dev Bootcamp – Introduction || HTML101 Part 2 » Welcome to HTML Bootcamp day 1! This series will teach you the fundamentals of HTML and equip you to build your own website(s). Before we can hand you a gun and some bullets to start shootin’ , we’ll put you through some basic training [...]

Web Developer Bootcamp: Introduction

Deon — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:04:28 +0000

HTML 101 – Part 1 » Disclaimer As a courtesy, Anvil Studios is going to offer an in-depth course in the basics of web development. This course will be presented through posts on our blog. This is going to be a N00b friendly course. So if you are already well-oiled in web development, we advise [...]

Alter a foreign key in mySQL

Gerrit — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:44:00 +0000

I recently came across a situation where the foreign key was incorrectly defined in a table I was working with and I had to figure out how to redefine it… Lets say we have a table Owners and Pets. Now Pets are linked to Owners via a foreign key owners_id or something similar. The foreign [...]

AJAX Form submit with jquery

Nico — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:10:54 +0000

In this micro tut I will show you how to submit your HTML form using ajax

Error vs Exception, Part 4

Abraham — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:36:25 +0000

In this series, I’m going to take a look at both PHP’s error and exception models — what each is, how they work, and how and when to use the one or the other. In this instalment, having covered the basics of PHP error handling in part 1, the need for exceptions in part 2, [...]