Quick Tip: HTML5 Video with a Fallback to Flash

In this video quick tip, we’ll review how to work with HTML 5 video in your own projects. Because older browsers and Internet Explorer do not understand the

Quick Function: Inserting ads into your RSS feeds in WordPress

On my main wordpress site (rogerstringer.com), I like to display a single line below each RSS feed item that tells people quickly about some of my other sites. So I set up a quick little function to display a one line ad mentioning a blurb about my various sites.

Query Post And Pages With Multiple Meta Values

Custom fields give WordPress immense flexibility, by using them correctly you can create very complex applications with the same functionality you could only find in custom CMS. Now for us developers, one of the “problems” we might face using multiple custom fields is that there is no easy ( built in ) solution to query posts or pages based on these multiple values. If you want to do so you have to create a custom ( somewhat complex ) sql query which is clearly not an easy task for most people, and most important it ain’t a flexible solution you could just include from one project to another.

10 sql tips to speed up your database

On most websites, content is stored in a database and served to visitors upon request. Databases are very fast, but there’s lots of things that you can do to enhance its speed and make sure you won’t waste any server resources. In this article, I have compiled 10 very useful tips to optimize and speed up your website database.

Design & Code a Cool iPhone App Website in HTML5

HTML5 is definitely the flavor of the month, with everyone in the design community getting excited about its release. In this tutorial we’ll get a taste of what’s to come by building a cool iPhone app website using a HTML5 structure, and visual styling with some CSS3 effects.

Grow Tall & Stand Out in Your Company

While watching BBC’s Planet Earth the other day, I drew a strong comparison between plants and humans.

In areas with dense foliage, plants are in a constant race to grow taller than each other in order to gain their share of available light. The tallest plants leave the others behind to die as they blanket the forest floor with shadows.

Just as plants compete with each other for light, you’ll have to stand the tallest if you want to thrive in your company.

The Perils and Plusses of a Persistent Project

As a freelancer, I’ve tackled plenty of projects. Not all have been enjoyable, naturally, but I’ve been able to keep a steady flow of work. I don’t think every job has to be perfect, and as long as I’m making good money and maintaining my freedom, I’m generally satisfied with my career.

While I’ve worked regularly for some of the same clients, I have never had to work on one project that required multiple weeks of single-client focus. It’s a totally different beast. Not only can it be unpleasant, but it can uproot your whole vibe.

Quick Tip: The HTML 5 Audio Element

As of Firefox 3.5, Chrome 3, and Safari 4, we can take advantage of many of the new HTML 5 features, including native audio support without the need for Flash. As you’ll find, we only to create the new

WordPress plugin: Protect your blog from malicious URL Requests

Due to its popularity, WordPress is often the target of hackers. Today, let’s see how we can build a plugin that will check for malicious URL requests (Long request strings, presence of either “eval” and “base64″ php functions, etc.) and use it to protect our blog.

Getting started with CouchDB

Apache CouchDB is one of a new breed of database management systems. These new systems are known as NoSQL. NoSQL is a buzz word term first popularized in early 2009 to describe a database that is non-SQL… NoSQL is a term for a loosely defined class of non-relational data stores that break with a long history of relational databases and ACID guarantees. Data stores that fall under this term may not require fixed table schemas.