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Thursday, March 31st, 2011
TweetUsing PHP variables in your CSS can add interest and interactivity, and you can even personalise colour schemes for individual visitors: let people choose their own CSS styles when they have logged in, or change the colours and images based on the weather or the time of day! This is a very simple PHP random [...]
Tags: colour, colour array, colour picker, colour schemes, content type, css, css file, css styles, geek, hex codes, interactivity, PHP, php echo, php function, php header, php variables, rainbow colours, random values, session variables
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
TweetThis is something of a disappointment after Microserfs and J Cube. Certainly I don’t feel that it lives up to the legend. Perhaps it was more shocking in 1990, and certainly I feel it would have helped me if I had read it then instead of leaving it until after generations Y and Z have [...]
Tags: books, consumerism, fiction, geek, generation x, microserfs, oxford university, sick society
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Tweetbuy Microserfs on Amazon Beautiful, stunning and brilliantly worked, the finale of this novel brought tears to my eyes. The slow and arid pace of the main body of the book suddenly snaps into focus as the perfect foil for the drama of one man’s emotional journey: from the lonely desert of a life which [...]
Tags: awkward adolescence, books, contemporary fiction, douglas coupland, emotional journey, fiction, geek, microserfs, origami flowers, programmers, transformation, work of art
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