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9Aug
2011

Edit BIOS in Lenovo ThinkPad x220t

As it’s changed from the previous model it had me scratching my head for a few minutes. To enter the BIOS setup just use F1 during laptop startup.

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5Sep
2010

Using TextMate for easier CSS3

Over the past couple of years Webkit has popularised many fancy new CSS tricks. Amongst these the ability to rotate an element is certainly one of the most useful. Fortunately it’s also widely supported in other browsers, even in lowly old IE right back to version 5.5. The ‘modern’ browsers support this with a reasonably simple syntax

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14Jun
2009

Hitch. Object-oriented event handlers with jQuery

Moving to jQuery from YUI has been a 99% positive experience. Probably the only thing I’ve really missed was the ability provided by YUI Event to control the object scope that an event handler was executed in.

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26Apr
2009

Week of the Month in Mysql

SELECT WEEK(my_date_field,5) -
WEEK(DATE_SUB(my_date_field, INTERVAL DAYOFMONTH(my_date_field)-1 DAY),5)+1

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22Apr
2009

Zend_Db_Select multiple table joins explained

It sounds like a simple task – retrieve the result from a join SQL query. Unusually you can even find documentation on the official Zend Framework site explaining how to put together a query that will return the results from a JOIN query. Unfortunately when it actually comes to putting theory into practice any Zend newcomer can run into several problems. (more…)

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