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How to Clean Up Microsoft Word HTML Special Characters with PHP

If you’re like everyone else in programming you’ve learned to HATE Microsoft’s implementation of HTML and how badly they’ve screwed up the web. Here is a quick function to use to clear out a few common special characters and replace them with standard ones. This is quick and dirty, but it works great. If you […]

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Key PHP Developer’s Tools

Development Tools Netbeans – http://www.netbeans.org Dreamweaver for UI http://www.adobe.com Flux is good too and much cheaper (OSX Only) http://www.theescapers.com/flux/ TextWrangler for just simple text stuff (OSX Only) http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ or if you’re a PC person go with Notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Filezilla FTP for uploading and downloading to servers http://filezilla-project.org Google Chrome‘s built in developer tools rock http://chrome.google.com or Firefox with Web Developer

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Disable Netbeans Zoom

If you’re like me and struggling with the Zoom feature added to Netbeans that doesn’t include the Zoom reset option. Here’s how to disable it all together. Follow these steps: Open netbeans Preferences Click on Keymap Sort the Actions column by name and look for ‘Zoom Text In’ and ‘Zoom Text Out’ Click on the

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