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CSS Image Filtering

To Do: insert example of grayscale effect and explore trimming the edges using “clip” since the blur bleeds outside the actual confines of the image. Here is an example of applying a blur effect to an image with css on hover: To get this to work in Firefox we need to add an SVG filter: …

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INCOMPLETE – Parsing XML with SimpleXML and PHP

More reference: http://www.sitepoint.com/parsing-xml-with-simplexml/ Given the XML: <Calendar> <Account> <Name>Sample Account Name</Name> <Client>Test User</Client> </Account> <CalendarDates> <CalendarDate> <Date>2014-03-01</Date> <Events> <Event> <Name>Event Number One</Name> <StartingAt>2014-03-01T09:30:00</StartingAt> <Categories>General</Categories> </Event> <Event> <Name>Another Event</Name> <StartingAt>2014-03-01T09:30:00</StartingAt> <Categories>Meeting</Categories> </Event> <Event> <Name>Hockey Game</Name> <StartingAt>2014-03-01T10:00:00</StartingAt> <Categories>Sports</Categories> </Event> </Events> </CalendarDate> </CalendarDates> </Calendar> Perhaps this was entered into a textarea on a form and we have read …

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Stopping the WordPress Spam

Post comment settings off, but comments for post “” are appearing in email. Trying: updating WP_posts to – SET comment_status=”closed”; since this site is receiving no new posts. Next: Maybe it is trackback spam – try disabling that Can remove or exit(): wp-comments file in root Nov 19: Updating WP_Posts has effectively stopped all spam from …

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