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 [...]
Here’s the new portion of cool websites for design inspiration for March 2010. I hope you’ll like them: 1. Bandit3 – You walk through a city in 3D engine. URL: http://www.bandit3.com/ 2. Allen design Group – Interesting idea for website of design and marketing agency. URL: http://www.allendesigngroup.com/ 3. Lands’ End Canvas 1963 – interesting micro [...]
Recently, I learned that in PHP and C# declarations like static public or static private are absolutely valid declarations of static methods. You can use both declarations, they has same meaning and there is no recommendation which one should be used: public static function myStaticMethod() or static public function myStaticMethod() But in my practice I [...]
The asp.net login control is often used when we build an asp.net website with asp.net authentication providers. But when we think about the security, it’s good to know that when the security is important, you cannot rely on it in the HTTP protocol. The reason is that all the fields of the asp.net login control [...]
I’m a big fan of WordPress. I was curious about most popular WordPress myths and I made a simple research. Here is a list of most interesting wp myths: 1. I can install all wp plugins and it’ll work great If you install many plugins, it will slow down your wordpress blog. 2. WordPress is [...]
I had some free time today, so I decided to learn something new in C#, here’s list of most interesting things that I learned: 1. Instead of using (Font f1 = new Font(“Arial”, 10.0f)) { using (Font f2 = new Font(“Calibri”, 10.0f)) { //t use f1 and f2 here } } it can be written: [...]
Here’s my list of blogging mistakes that I try to avoid: 1. Not Blogging Consistently A blog without new content is dead blog. Will you visit a blog again and again if there’s no new posts. That’s the reason I add new posts everyday. 2. Not using own domain for your blog If you use [...]
After the PHP Best Practices in Performance Part 1 and Part 2, here’s the last post from the series: 1. Instead of print(), use echo. It is a statement, so you avoid the function overhead of print(). 2. Incrementing a pre-initialized local variable is 9-10 faster than incrementing an undefined local variable. 3. Incrementing a [...]
Recently, I learned that there are many Free Adobe Alternatives. So, before buying some adobe product, you can check out the list of alternatives: 1. GIMP GIMP is often called ‘the free Photoshop‘. Some of its features are customizable interface, photo enhancement, digital retouching. GIMP works under Linux, Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista), Mac OS X, [...]
