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These are two useful sites that I found useful for converting text between different formats. My thanks to each of the site authors!

Converting XML Escaped Text

To convert text with XML escaped characters such as > or ĵ this tool at Freeformatter.com came in handy.

Convert Serialized PHP Strings

The PHP Online Unserializer was useful to quickly convert PHP serialized strings into readable text.

Knowing JavaScript and jQuery will get a developer only to a certain level of productivity before a plateau is reached where the next step is to become familiar with user interface widgets to make everything visually appealing and functional.

Thus far my primary experience has been using jqGrid but need to expand the number of available controls I’m comfortable implementing. I’m trying to locate which javascript widget libraries are the most popular and worth my time becoming familiar with. This is a list of the widget collections I intend to further review (in no particular order) :

• jQWigets
• Zino UI
• jQuery Easy UI
• PrimeUI
• Wijmo

Also worth noting are the following lists of jQuery Plugins and collections that came up in searching:

• http://tutorialzine.com/2013/04/50-amazing-jquery-plugins/
• http://www.sitepoint.com/top-5-jquery-ui-alternatives/

 

I’m old enough to remember when GUI became king and the idea of a computer user needing to know keyboard shortcuts to navigate a program was passé but it feels like things have come full circle and keyboard shortcuts feel more efficient. Navigating the GUI becomes mentally draining, looking for tabs, finding the right program on the task bar, etc are so much easier when I can just press a key combination to do what I want without having to search the screen.

With so much work being done within Chrome I found the following list of keyboard shortcuts to be exceptionally useful.

http://www.shortcutworld.com/en/linux/Chrome.html

 

 

Concise reference with clear examples dealing with inheritance and cascading styles of CSS.

http://webdesignfromscratch.com/html-css/css-inheritance-cascade/

A situation came up at a client site where a Dell PowerEdge R610 / R710 server was being upgraded to a non-optimal memory configuration. The document Installing and upgrading DDR3 Memory was a short and concise reference for supported configurations.

The following two documents are Dell PowerEdge Technical Guides that also came in handy to when trying to decipher the supported memory configurations.

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/server-poweredge-r610-tech-guidebook.pdf

ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-r610_Owner’s%20Manual2_en-us.pdf