Analyze Twitter Traffic Tools

Date: 6 Mar 2010 Comments:0

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 [...]

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Convert URL to PDF

Date: 5 Mar 2010 Comments:0

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 [...]

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Things you probably didn’t know about C# – Part 2

Date: 4 Mar 2010 Comments:0

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. [...]

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20 Blog Design Tips

Date: 3 Mar 2010 Comments: 1

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 [...]

Common PHP Best Practices

Date: 2 Mar 2010 Comments: 2 so far

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 [...]

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Cool Websites March 2010

Date: 1 Mar 2010 Comments:0

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 [...]

public static or static public

Date: 28 Feb 2010 Comments:0

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 [...]

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Does asp.net login control encrypt password field?

Date: 27 Feb 2010 Comments:0

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 [...]

WordPress Myths

Date: 26 Feb 2010 Comments:0

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 [...]

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Things you probably didn’t know about C#

Date: 25 Feb 2010 Comments: 2 so far

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: [...]

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