Back slashes, UNIX/Linux and Windows

TAKEN – FROM: Page 23 of MySQL+PHP (Next Handbooks)
[Purchased - Sept 05]

The back slash is a UNIX way of escaping the character following, even though DOS and cmd (NT’s DOS replacement) both still use it as a directory separator.

Since UNIX servers served the Internet many (about 21) years before Windows, you will find everything with web programming tools is very UNIX-centric, such as the forward slash file separator. PHP and other such languages are designed with UNIX/Linux structures in mind.

Be mindful of this if your code doesn’t work as you expect it to. Internet Explorer expects people to accidentally use back slashes in URLs and accepts them without telling  you that it’s the wrong syntax! SO be careful to type in slashes precisely and in the correct tilt.

GOOGLED – Back slash

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash – > > >  In many programming languages such as C and Perl and in Unix scripting languages, the backslash is used to indicate that the character following it should be treated specially. It is sometimes referred to as a knock-down or escape character. In various regular expression languages it acts as a switch, changing literal characters into metacharacters and vice versa.

SHORT and Simple explaination of the behaviour here http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/backslash.html

SLASH – In English text >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation) <<
The most common use is to replace the hyphen or en dash to make clear a strong joint between words or phrases, such as “the Hemingway/Faulkner generation”. Yet very often it is used to represent the concept “or”, especially in instruction books.

AND EXPLAIN  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen-minus
The hyphen-minus is the character at position 2DHEX in ASCII and standards that derive from it. It is used as a hyphen, a minus sign and a dash. This consolidation was a compromise made in the early days of fixed-width typewriters and computer displays. In proper typesetting and present-day graphic design, however, many style guides recommend the use of distinct characters for hyphens, dashes, and the minus sign. Usage of the hyphen-minus nonetheless persists in many contexts, as it is well-known, easy to enter on keyboards, and in the same location in all common character sets.

Most programming languages, restricting themselves to ASCII, use the hyphen-minus, not the Unicode minus sign, for denoting subtraction and negative numbers.

Wed 14th Oct Post

TEST; There is something strange happening with the date published on the previous post – also posted today 14th October 2009 – Lets see what date WordPress puts on THIS post? [wp-cumulus]

joelonsoftware

Software – Analogy – Frameworks – and a spice rack – tool-building factory factory factory (By joelonsoftware – paragrah pasted below )

When we really looked at the situation, we determined that that’s just too complex for someone who really just wants to build a spice rack.”

“So this week, we’re introducing a general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory, so that all of your different tool factory factories can be produced by a single, unified factory. The factory factory factory will produce only the tool factory factories that you actually need, and each of those factory factories will produce a single factory based on your custom tool specifications. The final set of tools that emerge from this process will be the ideal tools for your particular project. You’ll have *exactly* the hammer you need, and exactly the right tape measure for your task, all at the press of a button (though you may also have to deploy a few

*configuration files* to make it all work according to your expectations).”

“So you don’t have any hammers? None at all?”

Snap Shots (ADvertising)

Advertisment: (Adding ‘Snap Shots‘?)

Snap Shots is the world’s most popular way to give your users a more fun and interactive experience on your site or blog. It’s a complete system designed to help you get more from your site.

APPEND – Wednesday 14th October 2009 – This little mini-blog is presenting CODE segments from the ‘Bookmark and Share’ – WIDGET recently added. Now that I have added these three lines of text – It will push that code back enough so that it is NOT displayed on the ‘Front-Page’ of the blog.

The CODE that was being displayed is pasted below.

var addthis_pub = ”; var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, [...]

SEO

Busy? – yes, might get back to this one soon

Anchor Intelligence provides transparent actionable intelligence to ad networks, search engines, agencies and advertisers. This unprecedented level of visibility into traffic and site quality enables our customers to fight click fraud, make smarter decisions about traffic sourcing, streamline their operations, and strengthen their brand equity.

OTHER NOTES; The Tag-Cloud has failed to receive the last three NEW tags (including this one), ‘Traffic’,  ‘Scareware’, ‘LUA’. – Must stop entering new tags, until I figure out why – OR, if there is builtin limitation to these tag-cloud tools.

Opps – What NOT to do!

SENARIO: Renaming B to lowercase b in the directory structure of this blog

Thought Id be clever – Discovery – Cant do that and simply expect everthing to keep working. (Ie, ALL the links in wordpress, and Esp the Login) both stopped working.

RENAMED APACHE DIRECTORY – uppercase Blog to ALL-lowercase blog -

MAJOR PROBLEM – Cause NOW – I cant login to the Blog -

FIXED – Yes, and putting this little post up as a reminder of what NOT to  do – (When using cPanel domain configuration tools)

UNDO – Must go back now and RE – Fix the grd.net.au/Link.html (Linking back to this blog – YEP – is it now generating a ’404 Not Found error’ – when I click on the BLOG link) – so putting everything BACK the way it was – before I got all clever.

widget support

Making the API key work for different static plugins requires some effort. This post is here to remind me WHERE to go, (AND; Read / Tryout the instructions)  before contacting the support team) – and get some idea of WHAT is required to make this thing work, on more than ONE blog. URL – Widget<<< Support >>>

Opps – Thats the WRONG link (Its is related – BUT not the link I wanted) The link for the API keys that I am referring to is HERE

Single Character .Biz Auction Pulls In Over $360,000 at Sedo

It’s safe to assume that most of the bidding was driven by speculation.

09|30|2009 1:33 pm EDT
Single Character .Biz Auction Pulls In Over $360,000 at Sedo

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Sales – 6 Comments

Sedo just wrapped up their single character .biz auction today, pulling in over $360,000 on 31 domains, or an average of roughly $11,000 per domain.  Andrew at DNW pointed out that E.biz was the top contender with over 20 bids coming in and a whopping $66,001 price tag.   Several domains were not included in the auction including 0.biz, 3.biz, i.biz, o.biz and q.biz .  All of the results are unofficial as Sedo has yet to close the deals, but links to the auctions can be found below.

AUTOMATTIC – Widgetizing Plugins

One thing leads to another; – Just investingating http://www.worldtimeserver.com/clocks/ – and then somehow, I end up reading about wordpress wigdets and stuff – (Maybe because these are the t0ols that allow me to do stuff quickly and easily), anyway – here is a link to one of sites that provide insight to the underlying code, connected with wordpress.

AUTOMATTIC – Widgetizing Plugins + This page contains technical instructions on porting a plugin to use in the widget system.

What version of Java is installed?

VISIT: http://www.javatester.org/version.html

Multiple copies of Java can be installed on a single computer, and, if you have more than one web browser, each one can use a different version of Java, or none at all, so be sure to test them all. Below are nine ways to determine the version of Java a web browser is using.

Note: The portion of Java that runs programs is referred to as the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or Java Run-time Environment (JRE).

DOWNLOAD: Recommended Version 6 Update 16 – Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D, just to name a few. It’s also integral to the intranet applications and other e-business solutions that are the foundation of corporate computing.

AND; HERE is another url to TEST what version of Java is Installed; [TEST - Sytstem-X] Verifying Java Version *-THE-URL-* = http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp

Oops! You don’t have the recommended Java installed.
Your Java version is Version 6 Update 11 – [AND; They insist on me having verion 16]

Never mind that it has been HAPPILY working since XMAS, without any problem. GRUMBLE – GRUMBLE – Ok, gues Id better update to the latest version of Java-16