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26 Nov 09

Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices - Nettuts+

  • adding LIMIT 1 to your query can increase performance. This way the database
    engine will stop scanning for records after it finds just 1, instead of going
    thru the whole table or index
  • The more data is read from the tables, the slower the query will become. It
    increases the time it takes for the disk operations. Also when the database
    server is separate from the web server, you will have longer network delays due
    to the data having to be transferred between the servers
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CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know - Smashing Magazine

  • A floated box is positioned within the normal flow, then taken
    out of the flow and shifted to the left or right as far as possible.
  • “When you float an element it becomes a block box. This box can
    then be shifted to the left or right on the current line.
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CSS Layout Or Table Layout | Van SEO Design

  • Tables by their nature force everything into a box. CSS while also boxlike does
    let you break the boundaries of that box and move outside of it
  • A CSS layout is far easier to maintain than a table layout. Changes generally
    need to be made to one external css file to update an entire site.
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The Hardest Thing I Have To Do Every Day (by Jeremy Zawodny)

  • The hardest thing I have to do every day is to decide what to ignore
  • The frustrating thing about all this is that as our electronic tools evolve to
    more efficiently find information, I'm a bit more aware every day of how much
    stuff I am ignoring. Life was easier when I was ignorant of how much interesting
    stuff the world had to offer.

Coding Horror: Procrastination and the Bikeshed Effect

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

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CodingHorror Joel Software-Development PeopleManagement Software-Engineering

  • Although discussion can meander in any topic, the probability of meandering goes
    up as the technical difficulty of the topic goes down. After all, the greater
    the technical difficulty, the fewer participants can really follow what's going
    on
  • The principle that the amount of discussion is inversely proportional to the
    complexity of the topic has been around for a long time, and is known informally
    as the Bikeshed Effect.
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Coding Horror: Sharpening the Saw

  • I am too busy sawing to take time to sharpen my saw."
  • strike a mindful balance between practicing your craft and thinking about how
    you practice your craft.
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Coding Horror: Should Competent Programmers be "Mathematically Inclined"?

  • They teach math all wrong in school. Way, WAY wrong. If you teach yourself math
    the right way, you'll learn faster, remember it longer, and it'll be much more
    valuable to you as a programmer
  • Nobody knows all of math, not even the best mathematicians. The field is
    constantly expanding, as people invent new formalisms to solve their own
    problems. And with any given math problem, just like in programming, there's
    more than one way to do it. You can pick the one you like best
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24 Nov 09

3 Column CSS Layout | Van SEO Design

  • The relative positioning actually doesn’t affect the page div at all in how it’s
    displayed, but it will become important later when we introduce our new column
    to the layout
  • The margin has been set to 0 however since I used absolute positioning to layout
    this column and didn’t need the margin to push the div away from the page div
    border.
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2 Column CSS Layout | Van SEO Design

  • When something is floated in css it’s taken out of the normal document flow. As
    far as the other elements on the page are concerned it’s been removed from the
    same document space they occupy and other elements can thus occupy the same
    document space
  • In this layout unless we tell it otherwise the next element on the page (in our
    case the content div) will want to sit in the same exact place the menu div sits
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Understanding CSS Floats | Van SEO Design

  • normal flow includes block formatting of block boxes, inline formatting of
    inline boxes, relative positioning of block or inline boxes, and positioning of
    run-in boxes
  • In the float model, a box is first laid out according to the normal flow, then
    taken out of the flow and shifted to the left or right as far as possible.
    Content may flow along the side of a float.
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CSS vs Tables: The Debate That Won’t Die | Van SEO Design

  • We needed three sets of tags to present some content as opposed to the one set
    of div tags.
  • They impose a more rigid structure than divs. Every table cell is dependent on
    the other table cells in its row to maintain the structure
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