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How do you create coloured borders with CSS3? With the new border-color tags of course! The border-color tag permits a web designer to be very specific about the colours used in the border of an HTML element. As the W3C inches their way towards delivering on the promise of CSS3, many more browsers are beginning… Continue reading the remainder of this article

Instance variables belonging to an Objective-C 2.0 class are declared protected by default, unlike regular C++ or even C# whereby all declared member variables are private by default. This always confuses C++/C# programmers who are new to Objective-C so if you are familiar with either of those two languages, be aware of this point. Protection… Hankering to read the rest of “Objective-C Access To Instance Variables?” Click this!

The built-in array() data type has many ways that it can be manipulated. One of those ways is through the array_shift() function that treats an array as a queue, taking array elements from the front of the queue and moving up all of the other items in the array. When you define an array that… Hankering to read the rest of “PHP array_shift() With Non-Numeric Keys?” Click this!

PHP has a built-in array() data type which can be easily treated as though it were a list or a queue data type. The way to do this is through the use of the array_shift() function which takes the element at the beginning of the array and returns it, and in the process, shortens the… Click this link to continue reading the rest of “PHP array_shift() Function Definition.”

This short article covers Objective-C 2.0 property accessors that do not have an associated instance variable. Objective-C 2.0 offers the ability to automatically declare and implement class properties via the @property and @synthesize compiler directives. For the most part, these two compiler directives, part of the Declared Properties feature, go hand in hand with each… Craving to get the remainder of “Objective-C Property Accessors?” Click here!

Objective-C 2.0 offers some neat new features that make life easier for programmers. If you’re familiar with Java programming you are used to declaring getter and setter functions to access the instance variables of a class, and similarly in C#, you have the ability to declare property functions, get and set, which do the same… Needing to read the remainder of “Objective-C Class Properties?” Click the link!

Objective-C supports inheritance (but not multiple inheritance) like any good object oriented language. However, like many newer OOP languages, such as C# and Ruby, Objective-C 2.0 also supports extension methods, which in Objective-C parlance are called Categories. If you are at all familiar with C# (3.0 and on) you might have created extension methods, extending… Continue reading the rest of the article

PHP provides incredibly rich and diverse functionality for manipulating arrays. The word “array” and the data type array() in PHP is a bit of a misnomer because the built-in functionality of PHP  is quite capable of treating arrays as though they were many other data structures from simple arrays such as regular single-dimension arrays, regular,… Continue reading the rest of “PHP array_pop() Function.”

PHP provides the built-in ability to randomly sort, i.e. shuffle, an array of values in place. The PHP shuffle() function takes a standard array of values and swaps each element randomly with another element in the array. The shuffle terminology comes from what you would do if you needed to shuffle a deck of playing… Yearning to read the remainder of “PHP shuffle() Function?” Click the link!

Sorting arrays in .NET is trivially easy. The Array.Sort method is very simple to use and one of the fastest implementations for doing a straight forward sort that you can make use of. For most of your array sorting requirements, this is the function you should be using. Sorting Of An Array This program sorts… Continue reading the rest of the article