Web Development

February 2008

As Web sites and Web-based applications become more important to commercial firms and other organizations, so too does the methods used for storing data online, such as customer contact information, system login details, product data, and much more. Rewritable flat files may be sufficient for extremely limited data for which security is not an issue. But for most Web sites and applications, a robust database is called for.

Most of the PHP developers debug php code in their local machine just by trial and error using “print_r”,”var_dump” and “echo”. They dont write unit tests or follow any advanced debugger like xdebug. But the problem of using these methods is you cannot fool proof your code and their might be some bugs still present [...]

After trying,searching and crying for more than one month, I finally get it working today in my laptop (Dell Inspiron 6400) :) – I am one of the happiest ever in this world right now :D. here’s how to. All the credit goes to “kayvortex” Model of my wifi card is “Broadcom BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev [...]

If you’ve just completed the first steps of your SEO campaign, you’re probably sitting there thinking “There’s no way my SEO campaign can fail!” Really? Then again, how does one measure success with SEO? Do you have to be #1 in search results for ALL the keywords you want? But that sounds impossible! How …

Here’s an interesting sales pitch. Using a PHP Framework? Cool. Just make sure you add Zend. The Zend Framework is a fairly standard, (optionally) MVC PHP application framework. It comes with all the usual functionality; request routing, database access, templates (through view files) etc. It also comes with a lot of extra functionality that you [...]

Subversion hooks allow you to do some interesting stuffs at specific svn events which you can not do otherwise. For example consider the followings 1. Inform all users of that repository right after any commit 2. If some one locks a file, inform the admin after a successful unlock 3. Keeping track of commits made [...]

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to simply and quickly add the reflection of a scene to your subjects eyeball. I’ve also included the actual Photoshop session in with notes so you can see for yourself how this is done.

In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to make a web 2.0 logo so damn sugary sweet it’ll give your website a cavity. Then I’ll give you the PSD, the font, and all the patterns used in the image so that you can play with it yourself.

The algorithm for checking leap year is like the one below 1. if the year modulo 400 is 0 , its a leap year 2. else if the year modulo 100 is 0, then its not a leap year 3. else if the year modulo 4 is 0, its a leap year 4. else its [...]

People who are involved in SEO know the importance of links. They want and need links, lots of links. Some buy them, some plead for them while some submit them to directories for those coveted one-way links. While others, they bait them. Linkbait them, that is. Don’t be put off by the name. Though it [...]