For some application you make want the user to be able to run only one of their instances (ex. an e-mail client). I found an easy way how it can be done. If you are developing an VB.NET Windows Form application, first you will need to get the name of your main module and then [...]
We always read much about advantages of blogging, but in this post is about the disadvantages of blogging. Here some things to consider about blogging: 1. It needs time – it’s the biggest disadvantage, you’ll need to spend a lot of time in planning, writing, learning, etc. 2. It show much about its author – [...]
First, let’s remember the definitions of the operators: The Equal operator ($a == $b) returns TRUE when $a is equal to $b. The Identical ($a === $b) returns TRUE when $a is equal to $b, and they are of the same type. When we use the identical operator $a === $b, first it checks to [...]
If you are a fan of wordpress and you want to learn more about it, here are website where you can learn find wp resources: 1. WP Recipes – quick, clear and concise WordPress recipes. 2. Dig WP – a blog about digging into wordpress. 3. WP Engineer – WordPress news, tipps, hacks, tutorials, plugins [...]
In my websites, I usually use a single css file for all css code in the site. Today I though more is it correct to be done instead of adding multiple, but smaller css files, here’s what I found: 1. When you have multiple css files, when a page is loading there’ll be multiple HTTP [...]
If you have a Twitter account, you may want to be able to analyze the traffic to your micro-blog. Here are some free tools that could help you: 1. Tweet Stats – graph your twitter stats including tweets per hour, tweets per month, tweet time line and reply statistics. 2. Twitter Counter – it can [...]
I found a great tool that allows you to convert any url to a pdf document 100% free. Just visit http://pdfmyurl.com, type your url in the text box and click on the convert button. I converted my site and I noticed that the tool works really fast. When I opened the pdf, I was pleasantly [...]
After a post about Things you probably didn’t know about C#, here’s a new post from the series: 1. If you want to exit you app without calling any finalizers or finally blocks use: Environment.FailFast(); 2. Instead of sting filePath = directoryPath + “\\” + filename; you can use: sting filePath = System.IO.Path.Combine(directoryPath, filename); 3. [...]
There are so many blog templates and you can even create the design of your blog easily. But what kind of design should the successful blog have? I though more about the design of my blog. I read some tip about blog design and here’s a list of (in my opinion) best blog design tips [...]
After posts about php best practices in security and performance, here is a list of common php best practices: 1. Always use the standard php tags, ex. <?php echo “devtheweb.net blog”; ?> and never use shortcuts when declaring php code, ex. <?= echo “devtheweb.net blog”; ?> or <? echo “devtheweb.net blog”; ?> or even asp.net [...]
