Valentin Agachi

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Posts archive of year 2005

MyLinkVault Updates
Posted 51 months, 11 days ago.   Tagged with: CSS Ajax Javascript

As it would be normal, after an web application launches, feedback starts pumping in. This is true in the case of MyLinkVault also.

Bookmarks Manager Launched
Posted 52 months, 2 days ago.   Tagged with: CSS PHP DOM Ajax Javascript

The unveiling of my latest creation: a Web 2.0 application wannabe.

CSS Float and absolute bug
Posted 55 months, 24 days ago.   Tagged with: CSS Bugs

And when you thought nothing could amaze you any more, when you thought you've seen it all when it comes to CSS bugs... but wait there's more!

Should blogs or feeds have ads or not?
Posted 57 months, 12 days ago.   Tagged with: Blogs

There have been some people who talked recently about this subject. Should blogs have any ads or should ads be banned from such pages?

Clearing floats into rows
Posted 57 months, 25 days ago.   Tagged with: CSS Bugs

Color paletteWhen you have a lot of floats which you wish to style in a table-like manner, you will run into some trouble. We all know you shouldn't use floats to display tabular data, but if you want to create a palette of colors or some other kind of widget which needs this kind of styling, you will be tempted to use floats.

Experimenting with Javascript and DOM
Posted 58 months, 7 days ago.   Tagged with: DOM Javascript

Being a student sometimes has its perks. For example, this semester I had a course on web programming, which was focused mainly on Javascript. There were some projects we had to finish by the end of the semester, which I did and now I am sharing.

Table rows and CSS question
Posted 58 months, 9 days ago.   Tagged with: CSS HTML Bugs

There comes a moment in a web designer's life where you need to display a table with tabular data on a public site, thus you have to style it to be friendly to the eye, but...

Ajax & DOM handling gives Bucharest map
Posted 59 months, 12 days ago.   Tagged with: PHP DOM Ajax Javascript

Introducing a new online map application build by the use of DOM handling toghether with the Ajax technology.

Switching to charset UTF-8
Posted 61 months, 14 days ago.   Tagged with: HTML

While recently working on a project I have come across a bit of a problem regarding the charset of a web page. The site has content in russian language thus the iso-8859-1 charset could not handle it very well.

Recent development
Posted 61 months, 16 days ago.   Tagged with: PHP Search engines Blogs

Lately I have been busy implementing several backend stuff for my weblog and not only.

Rewriting dynamic URLs into friendly URLs
Posted 62 months, 5 days ago.   Tagged with: PHP Search engines

Let's suppose you are building a small database driven website or web-based application which you need search engine covery for. And this isn't the only reason why you would choose to create a web application with search engine friendly URLs. Another important aspect is the usability of this feature. To achieve this, you could use Apache's mod-rewrite module. This would be one way. Another way would be to implement a sort of URL rewrite engine into your web application's engine.

Houston, we have liftoff!
Posted 62 months, 19 days ago.   Tagged with: Blogs

Hello and good morning! My name is Valentin Agachi, and this is the very first post in my weblog. Here I will talk mostly about the web, but don't be surprised if I sometimes go off-topic. I will generaly try to keep my posting subjects constant.

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Hello! I am Valentin Agachi, an ambitious web developer, and you are viewing my site and weblog.

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