Often, when I work with some form of graphics, I do not have a handy library to save the image buffer I'm working with in a file on disk. In most cases, when I want to do that, I make use of the Targa format. This is very easy to save since the header is very simple (18 bytes) and the data can be saved verbatim. Plus, many tools, such as the Gimp, can read the result at once.

Here is my C code to do so. It will work in C++ also. It should be easy to tweak for other languages such as C#.

{
  unsigned char hdr[18]; // the targa file header
  FILE *f;

  memset(hdr, 0, sizeof(hdr));  ...

As FCKeditor becomes old and the new CKEditor is started to get there, I'm updating more and more websites to make use of the newer version of CKEditor. This requires a few steps to make sure you don't lose the previous functionality.

Permissions

The update does not transfer the FCKeditor permissions to the CKEditor. This is because by the time you install the new CKEditor, the FCKeditor should already be uninstalled. In other words, those permissions are gone already. Plus, the scheme is slightly different in the new editor.

Roles

The list of roles who are assigned one ...

Problem

One of my customers changed a report and all of a sudden was getting an empty page for every other page (it will look like the last page in case you print a single page, but it really is every other page.)

Did you think about the margins?

When you create a report to be printed, you must define its size properly. So if you are printing 8"1/2 x 11" paper, you want to create a report that's exactly (to about 1/100th) the same size.

The total height must be 11" and the total width must be 8"1/2. However, the actual page that you create does NOT include the ...

Today I was trying to create a table in a post and just could not get the cell padding I wanted. Without the padding the data is all cramped together which did not look the way I wanted (see Alexis Wilke Accounts.)

I knew I had the following entry in my CSS but did not think it was stronger than the table cellpadding and cellspacing specifications because I thought it worked for me before!

* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

I was wrong, that definition applies to the td with a greater constrained. So I had to add another entry. I solved the problem using a td definition like this: