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Back some 6 months ago or more, I wrote a piece about eye strain and how to try and avoid it. This was pretty much because I myself had come to the very stark realization that I was facing, not just the symptoms of, but the effects of eye strain. If you have done any reading up on the topic you will know that this includes anything from itching eyes, to blurred vision, added light sensitivity, and more. That was 6 months ago.

A quick look at some of the options available for learning Cocoa Programming with Objective-C. The range of options include the FREE eBook “BecomeAnXcoder” from cocoalab.com and commercial and free videos on YouTube and from The Pragmatic Programmers imprint. It is now easier than ever to learn Objective-C and start coding for the OSX desktop and iPhone or iPod Touch.

So, you have just received JSON data via an AJAX request and you need to loop through, what is effectively an associative array, wrapping every few generated html records in a wider tag set, creating record subsets and allowing you to generate the requisite code for a slider or pager. How do you go about [...]

The purpose of this article is to give you a quick fire introduction to the world of shell scripting. It is by no stretch of the imagination a complete guide to the technique of shell scripting but It will give you the basis of a script for backing up your web files and mysql databases, [...]

Sooner or later, when you are processing, importing and ingesting data from large suppliers such as Amazon, iTunes Music Store and Virgin Megastore, to name but 3, you are likely to hit a scenario where you are need to handle, process, import and output XML files that are serveral hundred megabytes or even gigabytes in [...]

It seems like for years people have been asking for custom field availability within the calendar module in Expression Engine. Somehow the feature still languishes on the request list.
Here's a quick and dirty guide on how to implement the "Mr Wilson" hack for adding custom field data into your weblog calendar [...]