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Simple Snippet: Backup your Files through SSH
Today we’re introducing a new type of post at Lateral Code: the simple snippet. These articles are meant to provide you with concise, meaningful snippets of code for use on your website. To kickoff off...
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Simple Snippet: Generate the DZone Button with PHP (Save HTTP Requests!)
The folks at DZone provide a great way for developers to share links in one, concentrated area. URLs which rank highly in their system (those that receive many “up” votes) often get quite a bit of...
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Elegant jQuery Slideshow Plugin: Lateral Slider
Let’s start with the defintion: Slider – The easiest known way to showcase your images and photos on the web in style. Who can deny it? This is the generation of web 2.0 sliders. A few JavaScript...
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Working with Addresses? Use the new Google Maps API!
Would you like to travel to Paris? Maybe Singapore? How about Hawaii? Many people love to travel to discover new places, meet family, or just have a great time. In order to get from place to place,...
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Use the new Google Maps API! Part 2
A few days ago, our experiments with the Google Maps API resulted in static images of various locations. Today, these same experiments will continue in a new medium: JavaScript. As we expand our...
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Automated Uptime Verification
If you have ever administered a website, you know that downtime is unavoidable. Creating a system to automatically check if your website is up can help deal with downtime and provide a better user...
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Under the Hood: Custom WordPress Pagination System
If you use WordPress, you know that after a few months of blogging, there are far too many posts to display simultaneously. To reduce the loading time of your website, you could consider a pagination...
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How Can This Image Detect My Browser!?
Take a look at this image in Firefox or Opera. Now view it again in any other browser. Notice a difference? In case you don’t have multiple browsers, here’s a screenshot of a side-by-side comparison of...
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Streamlining MySQL Insert Queries
PHP and MySQL have often been known as two peas in a pod. Unfortunately, when you use PHP to insert information into a MySQL database, you often have to write large queries that take up much of your...
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JavaScript Fade Effect without Libraries
Using JavaScript libraries like jQuery and Mootools does simplify your code, but this comes with the price of an added footprint. Often times, the same effects can be accomplished in raw JavaScript...
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