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Really small, really fast

Just thinking about how tiny computer technology is and how fast we can transmit information these days.. it blows my mind..
Even a measly 1KB is still 8,000 [0], [1] combinations. It’s a fair bit faster than we can communicate naturally.
In no time at all people will be complaining about their crappy 10MB a second […]

Enable writing to /wp-content/themes/

I was wondering if ‘the powers that be’ would find it possible to enable writing to the ‘themes’ directory of the Byteclub community’s blogs.
I would find it interesting what some decide to make their blogs into if given the chance. It could be encouraging learning and creativity and all that..
Unleash the Theme Editor please […]

Generating Sitemaps - PHP, MySQL and Apache

( PHP )

I guess you’re all familiar with the Swinburne website but you may not know how it runs under the hood.
There is a web-based system that manages all the site’s information and menu items - This is all kept in a database that is used to create text files with HTML for all the menu’s - […]

A better menu v2

Okie dokie, well i’ve made another CSS replacement of the Swinburne Top Menu that I thought I would share.

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So the last menu offered some benefits like realizability and less code, but it wasn’t accepted because the maintainers felt the design suffered from not using it’s pretty images for the buttons - […]