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 Web developers and Dunning-Kruger syndrome
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By Roland Tanner
In Opinion, programming
Posted May 16, 2017

Web developers and Dunning-Kruger syndrome

As this article lays out, programmers high opinion of their own skills, combined with lack of knowledge, can be a dangerous thing.  

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 The Joel Test and the Half a Loaf Principle
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By Roland Tanner
In News, programming
Posted March 31, 2016

The Joel Test and the Half a Loaf Principle

A pretty good summary of what’s required by a software development team. The Joel Test Do you use source control? Can you make a build in one step? Do you make daily builds? Do you have a [...]

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 Fix WordPress dashboard display error in Chrome
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By Roland Tanner
In News, programming
Posted September 5, 2015

Fix WordPress dashboard display error in Chrome

An annoying bug causes the WordPress dashboard menu to be messed up in Chrome. See image to the left. This appears to be a Chrome/Webkit bug that Google are not in a rush to fix. To fix in your [...]

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 Problem with default WordPress robots.txt
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By Roland Tanner
In News, programming
Posted April 11, 2015

Problem with default WordPress robots.txt

A WordPress site we administer had the following automatically generated robots.txt file (in a fairly vanilla installation). User-agent: * Disallow: Disallow: /wp-admin Disallow: /wp-includes [...]

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By Roland Tanner
In programming
Posted March 11, 2012

IE z-index bug and how to squash it …

A useful one to remember, because it’s cropped up in multiple sites recently. IE (at least up to 9) does not handle z-index correctly. New *positioned* elements create new stacking [...]

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By Roland Tanner
In programming
Posted February 25, 2012

PHP ISBN 10 to ISBN 13 converter

This is a bit of code I wrote a few years ago. I couldn't find any tool anywhere that would convert old-school ISBN 10s to the new ISBN 13, and check that the numbers have been entered correctly. [...]

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