I've come into the habit of altering my jQuery queries to hopefully optimise them to run faster. For example, if I wanted to get the html of the first "a" element...
// i'd use this:
$("a:first").html()
// instead of this, which is functionally identical
$("a").html()
It makes sense right? Don't bother getting all the elements, just stop at the first [...]
There seems to be quite some confusion when it comes to working with dates and Unix timestamps, especially when there are multiple timezones involved. I thought I would write up a bit of an explanation to help clarify the situation, and show some of the better ways to deal with this in PHP.
First up, some [...]
A long time ago, someone stuffed up. Scientists were inventing new concepts in computers, including the units of measurement for computer memory: bytes. When they started working with larger numbers of bytes they realised they'd need some way to refer to larger multiples of them. Since everything in computers works in base-2, the closest thing [...]