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Understanding IP Addresses

2.1 years ago on January 16, 2010
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In essence, an IP address is a numeric address of a computer network or a single computer. Public IP addresses are assigned by their respective organizations. Most computers, referred to as hosts from now on, have two to three IP addresses. Each of these have a certain meaning to other hosts it might communicate with. If you have a router, all of the information exchanged between local devices and external hosts will go through your router. A responsible Internet user makes an effort to understand how IP addresses work.

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Bytes to File Size with PHP and JavaScript

5 months ago on September 10
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functions, javascript, php

Most developer languages give you a file's size in bytes. With these methods you can convert them to readable amounts and units.

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Databaseless Currency Conversion for PHP

7 months ago on July 14
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Note: Country and currency codes are added and removed periodically by the ISO and not reflected in this example. For that, please see Download Free ISO Codes and Exchange Rates.

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Relative Dates in PHP and JavaScript

2 weeks ago on January 22
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Displaying dates for a user can be a bit tricky. First, you have to take into consideration what time zone they are in and what date format they prefer. Also, some people consider it easier to calculate a relative date in their mind. An easy workaround to this mess is to display dates in a relative format, "2 hours ago", "5 months ago." The way this is done, is to take the difference of two Unix timestamps--virtually, seconds since January 1, 1970 00:00 UTC.

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