mini flashcards

Just made a quick guide, written in an incredibly patronizing tone, for the novice wishing to make some mini-flashcards.

why?

The name suddenly makes sense. It is, after all, called "Microsoft Word", not "Microsoft Words". Presumably it is programmed to trim down any excess.

jQueery

This is slightly bizarre. I was jumping through hoops trying to get a script to reset a dropdown after a successful ajax request. Quite pointlessly, as it turns out.

svg to vml or gif and back

God only knows what my grandfather would have made of the title of this post. Gotta love how fast language can change.

plaintext passwords is crazy, init

If you're accessing a MySQL database using PHP, you have to hand the mysql functions your username and password, as well as the name of the database you want to work with.

mysql_connect('localhost', 
    'myname', 
    'mypass');
//etc

This is a massive security risk.