January 31, 2013 in Learn
Creating Vanity URLs in PHP: Subfolders and Header Redirects
Every page on a website has a unique web address that appears in the address bar when someone visits the page in a browser. These web addresses are known as URLs. (This stands for “uniform resource locator,” but that’s not…
January 22, 2013 in Learn
Building a Syntax-Highlighted Input Box with JavaScript
The textarea element has been commonly used for in-page web IDEs. Some great examples are in popular CMS’ like WordPress or Drupal. But inline web development is not the easiest solution to implement. And through other open source projects we…
December 3, 2012 in Learn
A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks
CSS frameworks have gone responsive, squeezing content into a spectrum of desktop and mobile browsers with varying degrees of success. While any CSS solution for layout is preferable to nested tables, no single solution fits every website. But that hasn’t stopped…
October 11, 2012 in Learn
A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your First Web Development Client
Freelancing is a seductive work option. You get to control your time, your income and your career. You also get to control your skill set. You accept the projects that will help you grow and decline projects that will not….
March 3, 2010 in Learn
17 Essential Developer Networks
Recently I have been noticing that more and more tech companies are starting up “developer networks”. Some of these, like the Yahoo! Developer Network, consist of great tools and resources (think YQL, YUI etc) that we can all make use…
January 20, 2009 in Learn
How to Create an RSS-Enabled, Micro-Blog with Twitter
Have you ever wanted to create a simple multi-person blog, but didn’t want to bother setting up an entire WordPress installation? If so then we’ve got just the answer. By combining Twitter Search, Atom feeds, hash-tags and PHP, you can…
April 28, 2008 in Learn
Our idea of success is all messed up
Update: I’ve added a few more web apps to the list at the end. My last post on Web Mission stirred up a lot of discussion so I’d like to expand on my original thoughts. My main point was not…
July 2, 2007 in Learn
5 Ways to Optimize AJAX in Ruby on Rails
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.– Arthur C. Clarke When Google first unveiled GMail, then GMaps, a firestorm of interest and activity was generated — not just in those Google applications, but the technologies that powered them. These…
August 25, 2006 in Learn
Add Microformats Magic to your Site
Think back to when you first began using the web. It might be a couple of years, probably five, ten or even more. How did you use the web back then? More likely than not, you searched using Google, or…