June 2011 – The Chief Mercenary

Visual Editor Tool for CSS 3 Gradients

Colorzilla offers a gradient creator tool I found to be useful in quickly and visually create gradients. They have preset that you can build upon or create your own custom gradients. Check it out at: http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/

Download phpssh2.dll extension for PHP 5.3 compatible with WAMP Server 2.1

A project that I am working on now requires shell access basically to dynamically create cron jobs. This took me a minute and will be the topic of an upcoming post but for now, in my local WAMP based dev environment, I need SSH2 set up and good to go. I quickly found out thatContinue reading “Download phpssh2.dll extension for PHP 5.3 compatible with WAMP Server 2.1”

Mysql: Remove Duplicate Values on Creating A New Table

I had a reference table for all of the World Countries that i wanted to extract Currency data from to another new table. I initially use this code which created a new table with 263 records. CREATE TABLE currencies SELECT tld, currency, currencycode FROM countries ; I quickly realized that for the purpose I wasContinue reading “Mysql: Remove Duplicate Values on Creating A New Table”