Monthly Roundup - February 2010 - Post Summary

Posted March 1st, 2010 in Monthly Roundup

At the start of each month I post a complete list of articles posted in the previous month. This is the monthly summary for February 2010. This is followed up on the second day of the month (i.e. tomorrow) with statistics relating to visitor numbers and most popular posts for the previous month.

The posts made in February 2010 are as follows, broken down into categories. Note that some posts appear in more than one category so appear below more than once.

Applications

• Notepad++ fails to update (07 Feb 2010)

HTML and CSS

• Add an icon before or after a link with CSS (06 Feb 2010)
• Cross browser transparency (20 Feb 2010)
• Remove webkit border on input on focus (28 Feb 2010)

Javascript

• Detecting the browser engine and version with jQuery (02 Feb 2010)
• Browser feature detection with jQuery $.support (05 Feb 2010)
• Get an element's position relative to the document with jQuery (09 Feb 2010)
• Dynamically load a Javascript file with jQuery (16 Feb 2010)
• parseInt('08') returns 0 with Javascript (19 Feb 2010)
• Load JSON data with jQuery (23 Feb 2010)
• jQuery's Facebox and Google Maps (27 Feb 2010)

Linux/Unix/BSD

• Which directory is that bash script in? (21 Feb 2010)

Miscellaneous Postings

• Added comments, new bookmarking, BSA asynchronous ad code (17 Feb 2010)
• GoDaddy 99 cent .com domain coupon code (26 Feb 2010)

MySql

• An alternative to ORDER BY RAND() for MySQL (03 Feb 2010)
• Example table for MySQL (10 Feb 2010)
• MySQL's LIMIT syntax can be slow for large offsets (17 Feb 2010)
• Another alternative for randomly ordering data with MySQL (24 Feb 2010)
• Fetching data using PHP and PDO with bound placeholders (26 Feb 2010)

PHP

• How to escape variables with PHP PEAR DB with bound placeholders (01 Feb 2010)
• An alternative to ORDER BY RAND() for MySQL (03 Feb 2010)
• Catch uncaught exceptions with PHP (04 Feb 2010)
• Extract the first paragraph text from a web page with PHP (08 Feb 2010)
• Replace error reporting with exception handlers with PHP (11 Feb 2010)
• PHP shebang (15 Feb 2010)
• Extend PHP's exception object (18 Feb 2010)
• Get the filename extension with PHP (22 Feb 2010)
• Catch mutiple exception types with PHP (25 Feb 2010)
• Fetching data using PHP and PDO with bound placeholders (26 Feb 2010)

SilverStripe

• I've started using the SilverStripe PHP CMS framework (12 Feb 2010)
• SilverStripe admin stopped working (13 Feb 2010)
• Fabco Ltd Website using SilverStripe (14 Feb 2010)
• Upcoming SilverStripe Posts (15 Feb 2010)
• Different home page and sub pages with SilverStripe (16 Feb 2010)
• What files can be deleted after installing SilverStripe? (18 Feb 2010)
• The SilverStripe book and Amazon delivery estimations (19 Feb 2010)
• Files and permissions when installing SilverStripe (20 Feb 2010)
• .htaccess condition to prevent missing CSS, JS, image urls being parsed by SilverStripe (21 Feb 2010)
• Style the #SilverStripeNavigatorMessage in SilverStripe (23 Feb 2010)
• How to log into SilverStripe if you've lost the login details (24 Feb 2010)
• Solution for "Error saving content" when saving an error page in SilverStripe (25 Feb 2010)

The second part of this monthly roundup, tomorrow, will look at the most popular posts read on the blog in February and some other stats.