Monthly Archives: September 2008
Photoshop actions
Everybody who uses Photoshop knows the advantage of using actions and since a long time I was creating my own actions when for example trying to resize a lot of images at once. An action is nothing more than a … Continue reading
3 tips when using jQuery
AjaxForm or ajaxSubmit This plug-in provides numerous options you can call to manage your form before and after submission and all this in AJAX. More info on http://malsup.com/jquery/form/ Live Query When an element is loaded into a page, you will … Continue reading
Arrays or objects in PHP?
I assumed until a couple of days ago that objects are way better then arrays, but let’s take a closer look into that. As objects are an instance of a class you can always know what type of data is … Continue reading
Stop JPEG and GIF, start PNG
It’s already clear that we are constantly working on applications for internet, and often those applications or websites use images. Over the years it became an evidence to use png images instead of jpeg or gif. How comes: Jpeg covers … Continue reading
Symfony: How to refactor
Last year, my team and I, needed to create a new web application. We decided to make use of a well known PHP framework called Symfony. Not because some say this is the best framework, but because … It is … Continue reading
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
John Resig is writing a new book that will be released in the fall of 2008 and we are waiting impatiently. It’s called Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja and will be 300 pages full of information for the advanced JavaScript … Continue reading
Head first: Software development
The last couple of months, I’ve started reading some books about software and programming and I must say there are a few very interesting books out there. The most eye-catching books are those of Head First, they are not the … Continue reading
Tables: use or don’t use
When creating a more complex table the last few days, I noticed that it is very useful to create them with the different additional elements: tbody, thead, tfoot, col, th, td, etc… In order to create a table in your … Continue reading
The helpful design patterns
The use of patterns in code being a good enhancement isn’t big news. But I discovered them recently and am very positive about it. It can, when understood, hugely increase your readability and is a nice problem solver for complicated … Continue reading
Google Chrome
What I like about Google software is its design simplicity. You cannot beat them at that point, after releasing Gmail a couple of years ago, Google maps, Google Calendar and Google Analytics, you just cannot deny the fact that they … Continue reading