Not so long ago I was in a big search for a solution like this and my search didn’t lead to any positive results. I was looking for a dynamic PHP menu that will allow me to play with lots of options and situations. My application required some special code because it’s based on member [...]
Here is a simple shell script tested on CentOS / RHEL / Fedora / Debian / Ubuntu Linux. Should work under any other UNIX liker operating system. It will check for httpd pid using pgrep command pgrep command pgrep looks through the currently running processes and lists the process IDs which matches the selection criteria [...]
Over at NetTuts.com, they’ve posted a useful arcticle discussing 10 smart javascript techniques to improve your UI.
Javascript can add a lot of special effects that can really improve the user’s experience. Here are 10 simple and clever Javascript techniques that add an extra dose of usability to any webpage.
Javascript is typically used as an aesthetic language in web development. This means that web developers should almost always be using Javascript for one thing only: Improving the visitor’s experience. There are many clever and useful ways to improve a site from the user interface perspective. A developer can find nearly any snippet of Javascript to achieve what he or she wants to accomplish.
Continuing the series from nettuts.com,week 2 has just been published.
Welcome to Ruby on Rails From Scratch Week 2. Hopefully this sequel to week 1 will help to further your education in Rails. This week, we’ll do a little bit more with getting an actual page up and running. We will also work on adding more interactivity by embedding ruby in HTML and learning a little about variables. After that, we’ll learn more about Ruby’s beautiful URL structure and how to manipulate it, plus other things as well. This is definitely going to be a packed week!
Over in nettuts.com, they’ve published a series of Ruby on Rails articles for learning the language.
Ruby on Rails. . .by now most people have heard the hype about it. It promises more effective code, total object orientation, and true MVC architecture to say the least. As far as my own personal experience, it has been all that and more. The code is beautiful, easy to maintain, and edit. In a recent project I was working on, it took me less than 10 hours to do the application, as compared to at least double that if I was writing in PHP.
Christina Warren has a comprehensive and excellent tutorial on creating a Ruby script to back up your entire web server, including databases, and upload them directly to an Amazon S3 bucket. The tutorial is geared toward Media Temple, but I imagine could be adapted to other hosts. She also did a screencast demo demonstrating it [...]
Amazon have finally launched the database component of their web service suite. It fits a bunch of current trends: key/value pairs, schemaless, built on top of Erlang. ?Eventual consistency? is an interesting characteristic. [Read More]
When it comes to websites, a very important item is having the ability to track your website’s visitors. Analyzing your traffic and optimizing your pages is the best way to get the most of your visitors. There are many reasons why you should think of implementing tracking scripts (it’s crucial to know where your traffic [...]
Want to share your Flickr photostream with the world, but only once you’ve given it a nice, customized touch? Look no further than CakePHP — and a few lines of code — to pull off some magic! In this article, we’ll use the Flickr API and CakePHP to take the images we’ve loaded onto Flickr [...]
On the Bakery (the CakePHP blog), there’s a new case study on how a group of developers created a “Web 2.0 dating site in 66.5 hours” (just short of 3 days worth of work). “Let this be a testament to Web 2.0 and the effectiveness of rapid development frameworks: I built a full-featured dating website [...]
