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Time for a change

Israel Jernigan — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:28:47 +0000

So, I haven’t posted on this blog in awhile… And it’s because I’ve had alot of change happen in my life recently. But, I’m wanting to get back to my website, and be able to create and offer inspiring content for the web. So, I’m going to be redoing my website and giving way to a better and much more useful website than before. (I have a few people who are helping me out with the redesign, and am super excited to get it going.)

Stay tuned for more.

CSS Learning Resources

Israel Jernigan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:30:15 +0000

One of the first coding languages I taught myself was CSS. I’ve learned the wrong way and right way to do many of the tasks CSS can handle. Hopefully some of the resources below will help someone else alpong their way to CSS mastery.

Books

The first book I ever purchased about CSS was very helpful at explaining why you do certain things with CSS.

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Another book I have used many times on ways to work around old browsers or weird quirks was helpful in my CSS learning experience.

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The book below is a great reference for terminology and rules. A must for those who don’t remember what a :pseudo-element refers to.

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Website Links

One of the best CSS example websites out there.

Basic menu designs done in CSS.

Great list of CSS best practices.

CSS layouts done well for almost any situation.

Random Resources

Grid calculator for your layouts.

What you should know about CSS specificity.

An Em to Px calculator.

PHP Learning resources

Israel Jernigan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:35:57 +0000

There are a few resources for PHP that I feel have been vital in my learning the language. From books to websites, I will try and give a short grouping that will hopefully help you understand PHP better.

Books

Some of the best help books I’ve found are written by, Larry Ullman. Here is one of his best.

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This was my first PHP book. It’s not the greatest book out there, but if you want full application examples this is the book for you.

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This next book isn’t a PHP book, but it is a great resource for learning MySQL. MySQL is free database component that works great with PHP.

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Website Links

PHP cookies were something I didn’t learn from a book. Here are a few links that really helped me develop those skills. PHP and cookies. PHP.net documentation.

Here is a great forum, not just for PHP, with lots of questions answered about PHP.

I wanted to learn about REGEXP in PHP, mostly for security verification. Here are two links that helped pave the way. The basics. More advanced methods.

Just a great website with lots of PHP centered tutorials.

PHP.net. Just use it!

Random Resources

Just some good ideas to implement.

Sometimes there are good articles at Digital-Web.com about PHP.

You should at least check out .htaccess.

Great articles at alistapart.com about alot of things, including php.

Learning ASP.NET

Israel Jernigan — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:41:14 +0000

So one of my goals this year is to learn ASP.NET. So I looked at book reviews, read blog articles, and talked to some friends as to what I should learn about ASP. I got out of it that I should learn C#, learn what MVC is, and to just start coding ASP.NET on my own.

Books Recommended

Here is the list of books that I researched were really good at the teaching the basics, and had amazing reviews on Amazon.

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Online Tutorials

Also, one of the best resources for tutorials is actually asp.net. There are video tutorials from ‘best coding practices’ to ‘integrating AJAX’. You should really check them out if you like video tutorials.