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		<title>Web Development Unites Design and Programming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Web design and Web Programming are united to create Web Development. Many beginning web designers never develop skills that include programming. However, it is imperative to gain knowledge of programming to introduce dynamic elements to your designs. More to come...]]></description>
		<link>http://pawdd.com/2010/06/02/web-development-unites-design-and-programming/</link>
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		<title>Evaluating Variable Status</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While using php you will need to evaluate or test your variables using conditional statements or functions. Or by using functions in your conditional statements. there are a few functions that can assist us to determine whether our variables have a value assigned to them, or to check if they are empty or not. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pawdd.com/2010/05/26/evaluating-variable-status/</link>
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		<title>Functions for Variables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Variables need special attention. Especially when you are using the ===(identical too) comparison operator, which will ensure you have a stricter set of conditional statements. They are as follows: gettype() will return the a string containing the type name or "unknown" if it is not one of the following types (integer, double, string, array, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pawdd.com/2010/05/26/functions-for-variables/</link>
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		<title>Employing PHP operators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[function make_thumb($img_name,$filename,$new_w,$new_h) { //get image extension. $ext=getExtension($img_name); //creates the new image using the appropriate function from gd library if (!strcmp("jpg",$ext) &#124;&#124; !strcmp("jpeg",$ext)) { $src_img = imagecreatefromjpeg($img_name); } if (!strcmp("png",$ext)) { $src_img = imagecreatefrompng($img_name); } if (!strcmp("gif",$ext)) { $src_img = imagecreatefromgif($img_name); } PHP operators are symbols and sometimes text that we can use to manipulate variables [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pawdd.com/2010/05/26/php-operators/</link>
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		<title>PHP Variable Type Strength</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Setting Explicit Variable Type in PHP In PHP the variable types are not explicitly set the majority of the time since PHP is not a strongly typed programming language. "Strongly typed" means that you explicitly define the variable type when defining a variables values. With PHP you can however specify a specific type for your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pawdd.com/2010/05/26/php-variable-type-strength/</link>
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		<title>Adobe Creative Suites (CS5, CS4, CS3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here you will find all things concerning Adobe Creative Suite 5, Creative Suite 4, and Creative Suite 3. These topics will cover less and less of creative suite 3, and when the time comes, I will also cover topics concerning Adobe Creative Suite 6. When Adobe Creative Suite 6 is issued I will stop support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pawdd.com/2010/05/25/adobe-creative-suites-cs5-cs4-cs3/</link>
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		<title>Books I have Read&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an incomplete list of the books I have read. However, it is a work in progress. Below you will find a list of books on specific topics that over the years I have either read in their entirety, or for the most part have read all of. This is NOT a list of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pawdd.com/2010/05/25/books-i-have-read/</link>
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		<title>Increment and Decrement Operator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you have probably thought prior to coming here, "I wish there was a way to increase or decrease a number without the need to use plus and minus operators over and over." Well if that was what your were thinking, then your idea has been realized with PHP "++"Increment and "--"Decrement. This works the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pawdd.com/2010/05/17/increase-and-decrease-with-increment-and-decrement/</link>
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		<title>Avoid Replication with the PHP Reference Operator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since PHP version 4+ PHP has offered us a way to reduce memory usage in our programs when assigning a variable to another variable. Normally when you assign the value of one variable to another separate variable, the variable that is getting assigned to another is then duplicated by PHP in memory to be used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pawdd.com/2010/05/17/avoid-replication-with-the-php-reference-operator/</link>
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		<title>Connecting the Dots with Concatenation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Within PHP there is a consistent need to connect things together to create a new entity. Such as taking two strings and creating one string. This is usually done with variables that have a string value. The most common type of concatenation is done with strings, however you can do this with numbers but the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pawdd.com/2010/05/17/connecting-the-dots-with-concatenation/</link>
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