One of the best features of Firefox is that it can be expanded with a wide range of optional extensions. There are extensions to help with blogging, privacy, working with RSS files, or just having fun. Here’s my list of the 5 extensions I find most useful when doing web design work.
Ever wonder what it takes to crash PHP, well here is a quick guide . Technically speaking PHP being a high level language should not crash, but reality speaks for itself. By knowing what could make PHP crash it may be possible to implement various safety mechanisms in your PHP configuration that would prevent users [...]
Alex Tew’s milliondollarhomepage.com was a phenomenon. It made a million dollars, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t have a sustainable business model. Here are some thoughts about where the milliondollarhomepage falls down as a long term product, and some solutions. Of course I haven’t made a million dollars yet and Alex has, [...]
What are the most important and useful JavaScripts that no web developer can live without? And which is the best version of each of them? This is my attempt to answer those questions and gather the code in one place.
As Google expands its empire beyond stellar search, the goliath keeps piling onto its heap of free tools that enable you to communicate, manage multimedia, jam-pack your calendar, map trips, and even create virtual worlds. Some of these apps integrate seamlessly with each other, while others stand alone. Most of these services are rough drafts [...]
Unlike many of its counterparts, PHP is not a strictly typed language. Essentially, this means that a developer doesn’t need to explicitly set the type (number, string, Boolean) of a variable before using it. Instead, the PHP interpreter automatically detects variable type based on the information stored within a variable. While this makes programming in [...]
In your Perl development, it’s quite likely that you will encounter files in different formats — XML, PDF, CSV, RSS — and different binary data formats. Your Perl application may need to manipulate these files, either reading from them or writing to them. You can simplify this task by turning to the Comprehensive Perl Archive [...]
One of the biggest questions for businesses these days is “where and why should one consider using AJAX”? So I present you with seven situations where AJAX should be highly considered. These situations are given without intent of hyping up or placing a bias the whole AJAX thing but providing valid situations where AJAX can [...]
We’ve gotten some emails lately asking for some nice tips on CSS. After some consideration, we’ve decided there’s nothing we can say that hasn’t been already said a thousand times better… so instead we’re posting our personal top sites for CSS tips, tricks and hacks. Here they are, served hot and steamy. All yours!
