Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

PC Magazine has a short article on how to upsample your images. Good techniques if you need to increase the size of a jpeg image for printing.
Top 7 Tricks For Getting an Interview includes some interesting suggestions for how to get an interview. Since most of you are currently looking for employment, you may want to take a [...]

The Jackol’s Den has an htaccess cheat sheet that you may want to print and add to your resources. You can learn more about other ways the .htaccess file is used in the article Server Move. The .htaccess file can be used to prevent hotlinking as discussed in class yesterday.
Speaking of cheat sheets, Code by Matt, has [...]

ResumeWiki – Post your resume for peer review and editing. What a terrific idea!
Practical PHP Programming – This is a free online PHP book. It looks great, but you will need to read it online since there is now download/print version of the book.
StealDeals – Technology deals on the Internet.
CSS Hacks @ CSS Discuss – “CSS [...]

I hope that you all had a wonderful August; while I’m not feeling so rested, I am feeling refreshed and happy to be returning to school. I just really hope that there aren’t any boxes waiting for me to unpack.
Here are a few resources to start the school year off right:
Cheat Sheet Roundup – Over 30 [...]

9 JavaScripts you had better not miss!
The Horizontal Looper/Repeat Region PHP Dreamweaver Extension – As mentioned in class! This would be one to bookmark for students who have completed the PHP/Dreamweaver book, it will create horizontal repeating regions that loop down the page.
Between boxes, I will continue to update this blog over the next month. I will be [...]

I Love Jack Daniels has a new JavaScript cheatsheet.
A while back we had discussed creating HTML email in class. there is a new article on Optimizing CSS presentation in HTML emails.
I would like to remind all of you that are working on projects that we have a free BrowserCam account that you can use to test your [...]

Seven Steps to turn your PC into a Mac – David H, this is for you. There is also FlyAKiteOSX. I’ve installed the FlyAKiteOSX on my HP and it’s pretty cool.
SQL in 60 Seconds – A short introductory article on SQL.
Web Site Test Tools and Site Management Tools – Listed are [...]

Well, in case you didn’t hear the news in class, Rob and I put in an offer on a house yesterday morning and the offer has been accepted. You can see pictures of the new house here. We are hoping to close escrow by 8/16 and move in starting 8/20.
Make Your [...]

Let’s try this tutorial A Fireworks Quickie – Using Text as a Mask today in class @ 2:30 p.m.. Be sure to have a photo available to work with. Here are my results:

StyleGala has an interesting article, No more CSS Hacks, on using PHP detect browsers and serve CSS accordingly.
A Few Tips On Estimating Web Projects [...]

Workshop Prep:
Please create a folder called f2o in your PM directory (drive F:\) using Windows Explorer. Move the photo gallery that you would like to upload into the f2o folder.
For our workshop today I thought I would post a few resources on removing objects from photos:
Removing a person or object from a photo – This technique uses the [...]