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Inner text shadow with CSS

I am currently playing around with CSS3 and trying to achieve a text effect like this (the black blurry inner …

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Using varchar(MAX) vs TEXT on SQL Server

I just read that the VARCHAR(MAX) datatype (which can store close to 2GB of char data) is the recommended …

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UILabel Align Text to center

How do I align text in UILabel?

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Making text background transparent but not text itself

So I am having a problem. I have looked around and looked around but no luck. I would like to …

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How to count the number of words in a sentence, ignoring numbers, punctuation and whitespace?

How would I go about counting the words in a sentence? I'm using Python. For example, I might have the …

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Android read text raw resource file

Things are simple but don't work as supposed to. I have a text file added as a raw resource. The …

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How can I remove non-ASCII characters but leave periods and spaces using Python?

I'm working with a .txt file. I want a string of the text from the file with no non-ASCII characters. …

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How I can delete in VIM all text from current line to end of file?

I have very large files (more than 10Gb). I need only some lines from the top of the file. Is …

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How to place and center text in an SVG rectangle

I have the following rectangle... <rect x="0px" y="0px" width="60px" height="20px"/> I would like to …

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Using .text() to retrieve only text not nested in child tags

If I have html like this: <li id="listItem"> This is some text <span id="firstSpan">…

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