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PHP Tutorial: Replace long link text

PHP Tutorial: Replace long link text

 
I created this function so that I could have a way of preventing very long non-breaking text links from breaking my web page layout. Paritcularly, this is used in my tweet / facebook section of my homepage. Whenever I posted a link to either of...
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Some Useful Information for Setting Up Subversion on Ubuntu

 
Not a tutorial or guide this time, since everyone else seems to have this covered quite well, but thought I'd collect a few good links together in one place. Hopefully these links will be useful to someone just starting with SVN. For everyone who...
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Sharethis WordPress Plugin – Invalid XHTML

 
Building on my previous post regarding invalid XHTML (Version 1.0 Strict), I have been trying to find out why my site has not been validating. It turns out, the last bit of the problem is the "Sharethis" plugin for Wordpress. In this plugin, the...
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Twitter Tools – Plugin update for Valid XHTML

 
Today I noticed my site was not generating valid XHTML (for the 1.0 Strict Standard). I isolated some of the problems to the "Twitter Tools" plugin for Wordpress. The problem is that a couple of parameters are not passed using the correct encoding...
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Points to consider for Usage Based Billing (UBB) in Canada

 
While I make no claims to understand the economics of the agreements between ISPs for forwarding traffic between each other, the point of this article is to provide a unique perspective since I am a graduate student in the networking field. I also...