Archive for December 2010
Tech Support Care Package by Google (TeachParentsTech.org)
If you’ve already seen the ads form Google, regarding their free instructional video series at TeachParentsTech.org, perhaps you’ve had a chance to view some of the videos from your personalized “Tech Care Package”. You may have also noticed that the video instructor uses a Mac and not a PC. Considering that most seniors or tech-challenged individuals use PCs, I wonder why Google chose to use Macs for their instructional videos.
50 Passwords You Don’t Want To Use
The Wall Street Journal published an article, on Monday, titled “The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords“. If these are Gawker’s most common passwords, then it should go without saying that they would also be 50 passwords you wouldn’t want to use…right?
PHP DEV: Return an Array from a Function
As I start to hone my PHP development skills, I’ll be posting short solutions for problems that I run into. All related posts will have the “PHP DEV:” designator, in the title. These articles may help other novice PHP programmers, who find themselves running into the same problems that I’ve encountered, and they’re also a good way to bring extra traffic to the site. I hope they help you!
One of the problems with creating a custom PHP function is that you can only return one variable/value. The problem is that, with each custom PHP function you write, you may need to return more than one value.
Suppose you wanted to retrieve a list of friends from a database or, in this case, a list of variables. Instead of returning just one value, you can return an array of values (as one variable) and assign a variable for each value in the array.
