How to insert tabs in a textarea

I’ve always found it annoying that tabs don’t, well, tab in textareas on HTML pages. To be fair, they do what they’re supposed to and move on to the next field. But for a web app I’m working on I needed a way for the tab key to insert a tab.

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GoCodes redirection plugin

Have you ever needed to give out a URI from a blog post? Sure, you can do it, but the URIs are usually pretty long. And forget about it if you’re saying it over the phone or on a podcast. A Wordpress plugin called GoCodes looks like it may be able to [...]

Inserting AddThis.com widget in Simple Machines Forum

After finding the AddThis.com bookmarking widget and installing the WordPress plugin here I decided I needed to add the widget to my photography forum.
What I wanted to make sure would happen is that if a visitor bookmarks a page they bookmark the first page in the thread instead of bookmarking a later page in a [...]

8 Reasons NOT to start a forum

There are thousands and thousands of web forums out there. My guess is that if you’re reading this you’re at least thinking of starting one if you haven’t already. We hear about the reasons to start a forum (fun, branding, marketing, etc) but it’s difficult to find information on why you shouldn’t start a [...]

Comparing MySQL search speed for different column types

Starting work on a new website I wanted to know which type of MySQL column was the fastest to search on. I assume it’s a numeric column, but I really want to know how much of a difference it makes. What I’m working on right now is an options table and it would [...]