Andres Kutt discusses his experience as architect at Skype for five years, sharing some of the lessons learned: rules of thumb do not always apply, functionality is important, use simple solutions, buzzwords are dangerous, the architecture needs to f …
On the TutToaster site today there’s a new tutorial showing you how to create an entire PHP forum completely from scratch using PHP and a MySQL backend. The code I’ll show is exactly the same than the one you can download, except for some comments. I …
NoSQL Databases and Security: Jeff Darcy writes about NoSQL systems’ security (actually the lack of): Most NoSQL stores have no concept of security. […] Mostly it falls into two categories: encryption and authentication/authorization (collectively “a …
On the These Days blog there’s a recent post talking about creating a mobile version of your site and how you can detect if the visitor is using a mobile browser or not using WURFL. WURFL, The Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL) is an open sourc …
Peculiar es un paquete de iconos realizado sólo en CSS. Ha sido creado pensando en sitios y aplicaciones web que dependan de un número muy reducido de peticiones HTTP o que no necesiten o no puedan utilizar ninguna imagen. El paquete contiene 45 pict …
Processing arrays can take quite a few bit of time, this is something that can directly impacts the loading speed of your page and depend of the computer and the browser your users use. When you think that a typical users can load your website with a netbook , or an iphone for that matter, speeding up search in large arrays can be a good way to optimize your code …
HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass’s base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site. After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, perfo …
I was recently redesigning my website and wanted to create tooltips. Making that was easy but I also wanted my tooltips to feature the a triangular pointer. I’m a disaster when it comes to images and the prospect of needing to make an image for eve
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We recently devised a system to redirect old URLs in PHP so that you could avoid “page not found” errors (I suggest you read it before venturing further). In this article, we’ll create a similar system for WordPress, the popular PHP CMS. How is WordP
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Regardless of which database back end your project uses, a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) controller can simplify your development efforts. Set up a very basic JSON controller that can enhance your next development project.
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