Holiday Cheer on Forums

Seems like Google has made it popular to change the logo of a website for holidays. 
My question is how many of y’all do the same, and more importantly do your members like it? 
Over on my photography forum I switched out the default logo with a winter themed one for Christmas.  It’s scheduled to [...]

WordPress, source code, and smart quotes

Turns out WordPress tries to make your posts look a little better by swapping out all normal quotes with smart quotes. That’s great for typography, but really bad when you’re posting source code like I often do on here. Trying to run pasted code with smart quotes in it will bring PHP down [...]

Editing a page from FireFox

Found a quick little JavaScript trick that lets you edit page content from within FireFox. Copy and paste the following into your address bar and press enter.
javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true’; document.designMode=’on’; void 0
Everything on the page becomes editable. Sure, it doesn’t affect the file on server. But once you’re done you can save the resulting [...]

Java code practice on JavaBat

Looking for a place to polish up your Java skills?  Try JavaBat.  It’s a library of short Java projects that you fill in the code and it’ll check if for you.