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About allrite’s Webworld
Allrite’s Webworld is a place for sharing web and science knowledge. I’ll also be writing about daily life, travels and whatever else takes my fancy. There are forums where you can ask questions about web related issues, such as PHP, usability. I’ll try to use my 10 years of web experience to help where I…
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A flat file database is
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RSS Feeds
I modified the news and events system on the CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility’s website today so that it generates an RSS 2.0 feed. This is an XML format that provides an easy way of sharing the news and events headlines across websites. For instance, you can where I’ve included them on this website. The…
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Bad news
My supervisor called me into the office today and told me I was only on the auxiliary list of applicants for my job and probably wouldn’t get an interview, let alone the job itself. My interpretation of the reasons for this is that other applicants had more shiny titles after their names. It seemed like…
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Content Management and Database File Systems
There are, broadly speaking, two types of methods for storing material on websites. One is to store files in traditional file system, where the paths in the URL’s represent the physical location of the file on the web server. The other method is to use a Content Management System (CMS) where content, rather than actual…
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Nightmares
I had a nightmare about by job this morning. I dreamed that I was talking to a senior management person, declaring that the organisation’s strength was in the diversity of skills that its employees possessed. He was warning me "careful, careful" for some reason, then apologetically handed me a slip of paper, telling me that…
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