When creating a logo for a modern website it’s a good idea to use Adobe Illustrator or another program that can create and manipulate vector art to generate an SVG file rather than a photo editing app like Adobe Photoshop that is used to edit and manipulate pixels. The reason to use SVG for a […]

When pasting paragraph text into Photoshop, the text often ends up on a single line extending beyond the width of the image. In this article, I will show you how to fix that.

In general, Crystal Reports users set up the default formatting to display the data in the way it is to be used most often. However, when it is necessary to be able to switch quickly to another format – right-clicking to format the field is usually the solution.

In our Introduction to PHP course, students create a poetry website. For the manual, I needed to create an ER diagram for the MySQL database on a Mac. I found the following options, both of which are free:

Oracle has been around so long and so many questions have been asked and answered in so many different ways that it can be difficult to find a definitive answer, especially to a best-practices type question like this one. There are dozens of pages and blog posts explaining the basic differences between PL/SQL functions and […]

In business, writing can make or break us. Well-crafted words can build corporations, change minds, trigger emotions, and inspire communities. Despite these benefits, many professionals lack the writing skills they need to perform. Research shows that writing is one of the largest skill gaps. By investing in writing training, companies close the gap and reap […]

In this article, I show how to convert an SRT file to more readable text using Python.

A schema is a collection of tables, views, procedures, indexes and other logical objects. Each schema is owned by a database user and has the same name as that user. Because there is essentially a 1-to-1 relationship between schemas and users, you can think of a schema as a user and a user as a […]

When working with Python properties, you might find yourself getting a “maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object” error. This article explains how to prevent it.

A bi-directional dictionary is one that provides mapping in both directions. In other words, if the value for the key “a” is “A”, then the value for the key “A” will be “a”. This article shows a simple way for creating one.