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Useful Web Development Links

May 23, 2009

Encounter problem.  Search Google.  Solve problem.  Repeat.

That’s what being a Web Developer is all about.  So, in this post I’m going to catalogue useful links that I run into while solving problems.  Enjoy!

  1. A good guide to cron.  You know you forget how to do it manually, it’s ok to admit it.

4 Responses to “Useful Web Development Links”

  1. Steve said:

    Google’s Standard Apps just got harder to find: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html

  2. Steve said:

    Here is a reminder on how to DELETE rows in MySQL using a left join: http://www.perturb.org/display/entry/743/

  3. Steve said:

    How to use regular expressions in Dreamweaver to Find and Replace:

    http://www.askapache.com/tools/regular-expressions-in-dreamweaver.html

    An example:

    Replace all $user['blah'] with $user->blah

    Find: (\$user\[')(\w*)('\])

    Replace: $user->$2

  4. Steve said:

    Wow, ok another Drupal tip - how to programmatically print a lightbox2 imagecache field:

    print lightbox2_imagefield_image_imagecache($field_name, $item, ‘__lightshow2__’, $node,$view_preset, $lightbox_preset);

    and here is the function description:

    * @param $field_name
    * The field name the action is being performed on.
    * @param $item
    * An array, keyed by column, of the data stored for this item in this field.
    * @param $formatter
    * The formatter to use for the field.
    * @param $node
    * The node object.
    * @param $view_preset
    * The imagecache preset to be displayed on the node or in the view.
    * @param $lightbox_preset
    * The imagecache preset to be displayed in the lightbox.
    * @return
    * The themed imagefield + imagecache image and link.
    */

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