Articles

Algorithms

Articles about programming algorithms.

• Randomly Shuffling the Order of Elements in an Array

Perl Programming

Perl programming language techniques for dynamic website development.

• Converting Text to HTML
• Using JSON Data In Perl Scripts
• Fetching The URL Path Within A Perl Script
• Building a URI Regular Expression
• Escaping Characters in Perl
• Fetching a Query String in Perl
• Percent Encoding of Characters

HTML

• Changing the Mouse Pointer Using CSS
• Using Cascading Style Sheets in HTML
• Reading a JSON file in JavaScript using JQuery
• Create HTML Links that Open in a New Window
• Understanding Doctypes in HTML

HTML Canvas Graphics

• Vector graphics with HTML5 canvas
• Bitmap graphics with HTML5 canvas

Graphics

Various programming techniques and examples involving graphics and image manipulation, specifically relating to web development.

• Dynamically Generating BMP Files
• CRC-32 Calculations for the PNG Format
• Adler-32 Calculations for the PNG Format

Security

• Password Input Fields

Dates and Times

These articles describe a variety of problems and algorithms that are useful when incorporating dates and times into software programs. When considering the internationalization (i18n) of software, it is especially important to understand how to handle the variety of formats in which dates and times can be displayed.

• Algorithm For Determining If a Year is a Leap Year
• Algorithm For Determining the Number of Days in a Month
• Calculating the Day of the Week
• Calculating the Day of the Year
• Regular Expression to Find a Year
• Parsing Times From Strings
• Listing the Names of the Month in Any Language

Books and ISBN

• Verifying 10-Digit ISBN Numbers
• Verifying 13-Digit ISBN Numbers
• Converting ISBN-10 to ISBN-13
• Querying Google Books

Adobe^® InDesign^®

Advanced InDesign desktop publishing tips and scripting assistance. Speeding up your InDesign workflow by writing scripts using JavaScript.

• Scripting With Adobe InDesign
• A Visual Guide to Scripting Find/Change
• Cleaning Up Text Imported Into InDesign (Part 1)
• Cleaning Up Text Imported Into InDesign (Part 2)
• Automatically Applying Paragraph Styles in InDesign
• Scripting InDesign Story Editor Preferences