Have you ever had a situation with a PHP site, where you are including document files to display on the site and need to display the recent revision date for the included file? If you’ve ever quickly tried to accomplish this you may have discovered it’s not immediately obvious how to achieve it. Here’s the answer. more »
Mar
26
2020
Recently I was writing a post in a WordPress blog that I knew I would be updating periodically and wondered if there was any way I could get the most recent update date to display in the summary shown on the home page, or basically at the top of the post. After some searching and testing here’s what I came up with. more »
Jan
10
2020
I subscribe to many developer focused email newsletters. I really need to in order to attempt to stay up on the latest advancements in web site development. Of course unless you have absolutely nothing else to do with your time, keeping pace with all the latest advancements is just not possible. more »
Aug
01
2018
CSS is Awesome Awful A Real Challenge.
CSS is a lot of things. What it’s not is perfect. Far from it in fact. Yet in spite of it’s short comings, in spite of the inconsistent browser support, both of which cause many a designer to jump through countless hoops in an attempt to achieve a consistent layout across all browsers, it’s hailed as the ONLY method to use for all web page layout. Is that fair? more »