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Tutorial: C# XML Serialization

Posted on | January 6, 2010

Almost every decent sized project in any programming language winds up having at least one configuration file. XML is a standard we often rely on because it’s generally perfect for the job. However, most people end up simply working with the XML file like they would any other file or simply scanning along each part of the “tree”. XML Serialization can take care of a lot of these instances with much better results, by providing an actual class interpretation of the configuration file. Let me show you.

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Tutorial: Minimal CSS Image Hover

Posted on | November 18, 2009

Text link hover are quite common, but becoming even more common is image link hovers. Why is this? Well, because you can make things look much nicer(cooler, cleaner, sharper, etc) using an image. Problem is that it can get messy with all the CSS that is involved if you don’t do it properly. I’m here to show you an easy way. Check out the demo if you’re not sure what I mean by Pure CSS Image Hover.

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Tutorial: PHP Random Image

Posted on | November 9, 2009

I was working on a website of mine when I came across the need to be able to have a script randomly pull an image from a specific folder and then display it. Obviously, server side scripting is going to be involved so I decided to write this function in PHP. Let’s take a look!

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