August 2009
2 posts
Top 10 Firefox Addons For Web Developers
Web developers often require tools to test, analyze and benchmark their web pages and to do so they use various web development products for different purposes.
Those who are familiar with Firefox and use it extensively knows that Firefox browser supports added extensions/addons which can be freely downloaded from the Firefox addon site.
Firefox community is constantly working and adding new...
How To Reveal Your Masked Password Using...
How To unmask the password saved in your browser which you might have forgotten. Suppose you forgot the password after saving in your favorite browser. Every time you visit your preferred site you are prompted to put the password but that work was done by the browser to help you. Now, what if your PC is formatted and there is no backup whatsoever. In this case you browser (newly installed)...
July 2009
2 posts
Mentor Entry Level Developers In Easy 7 Steps
Every Organization needs to mentor the entry level developers to attain success in their future endeavors. So, if you are the one who is given an opportunity to teach and train your new people then following tips will be good for you.
Not every developer can become a good mentor so if you think you are not up to the task you should straight forward say NO to your employer otherwise you will end...
Microsoft And Yahoo Collaborated Against Google
Microsoft and Yahoo have signed a search engine deal to merge their search technology and advertisement operations. This move is highly inspired by Google 70% market share and now these two giants are trying to break their way into Google’s territory.
he 10-year deal gives Microsoft an exclusive license to Yahoo’s search-engine technologies, which it will be able to incorporate into...
June 2009
4 posts
How To Build Website Backlinks By Using An Organic...
How to build website backlinks in an organic way? The question is not so simple as you need to first know What are “backlinks”? Well, Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website which are also termed as Inbound links (IBL). They represent the popularity or importance as more and more people (sites) linking to you will eventually end up giving backlinks to your site.You...
Top 12 Smart Tips To Work With SQL
Your users probably don’t know a thing about SQL, but you know its value. It’s everywhere, it’s easy to learn, and SQL solutions are simple to implement. Whether you use SQL a lot or sparingly, working smarter with SQL will help you avoid errors and improve performance.
Many SQLs are vendor-specific. The following tips apply to Jet and Transact-SQL, but most SQL products are...
Top 12 Smart Tips To Work With SQL
Your users probably don’t know a thing about SQL, but you know its value. It’s everywhere, it’s easy to learn, and SQL solutions are simple to implement. Whether you use SQL a lot or sparingly, working smarter with SQL will help you avoid errors and improve performance.
Many SQLs are vendor-specific. The following tips apply to Jet and Transact-SQL, but most SQL products are...
Best Practices of ActiveX Data Object (ADO)
ADO - ActiveX Data Object is a library to manipulate data i.e. retrieving and storing records. Being a Microsoft library ADO offers great ease to help developers with their database queries. ADO is quite flexible and powerful as it doesn’t let the developer bother how the database is implemented. They can straightaway use the database if you can successfully connect to it. Although, ADO...
May 2009
6 posts
MooTools v/s jQuery
MooTools v/s jQuery is a hot topic as with the advent of technology every developer is using JavaScript in one way or another. Picking up a library is not an easy task specially if you are working somewhere where they already have a set pattern or their libraries defined. Ideally, every company is either working with Moo Tools or jQuery based on their past experiences or developement expertise....
Moo Tools v/s jQuery
Moo Tools v/s jQuery is a hot topic as with the advent of technology every developer is using JavaScript in one way or another. Picking up a library is not an easy task specially if you are working somewhere where they already have a set pattern or their libraries defined. Ideally, every company is either working with Moo Tools or jQuery based on their past experiences or developement expertise....
What Does It Take To Become An Intermediate...
What does it take a beginner to become an intermediate programmer? Well the answer is not simple because the expertise, speed, efficiency and good coding practices etc. factors required may or may not be found in everyone. Internet is also divided in two types of blogs, articles, howto’s etc.
Blog or articles aiming towards programming basics for beginners (“How To do something”...
How to Improve Website Performance Using CSS...
CSS Sprites is a technique by which we can combine multiple images in a single big image and position the various parts of this big image with our elements using pure CSS attributes. The primary objective behind using CSS Sprites is to decrease the number of HTTP requests and thus decreasing the request stress on server. The idea behind CSS Sprites is to consolidate multiple images into one sprite...
15 Firefox Extensions You Can't Live Without
An extension is a small program or add on to Firefox and they have been around for as long as Firefox has. These extensions give you a super power if you will (or at least lets you do something you couldn’t do before.) Like automate things you do often or integrate a service right in your browser. Firefox gain popularity becuase of such extensions/addons, but keep in mind that each extension will...
15 Firefox Extensions You Can't Live Without
An extension is a small program or add on to Firefox and they have been around for as long as Firefox has. These extensions give you a super power if you will (or at least lets you do something you couldn’t do before.) Like automate things you do often or integrate a service right in your browser. Firefox gain popularity becuase of such extensions/addons, but keep in mind that each extension will...
April 2009
10 posts
Even Twitter Is Not XSS Safe
The Recent XSS attack on Twitter shows that even big site like twitter are not safe from XSS attack. Twitter is gaining popularity and so malicious users are trying to break it. Mike Mooney a 17-year-old teenager started playing with it as he got bored. After finding a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Twitter application, he altered the code on four Twitter accounts to leverage the...
Deeper look into Google Android 1.5. Android 1.5...
Google Android is gaining popularity by leaps and bounds inspiring Google to improving Android in terms of user interface UI and functionality. Google Android 1.5 is expected to come by end of April and the enhancements are quite visible. First of all Google is planning some noticeable changes to its user interface for Android 1.5. Following are few of the screen shots of Android early days user...
Deeper look into Google Android 1.5. Android 1.5...
Google Android is gaining popularity by leaps and bounds inspiring Google to improving Android in terms of user interface UI and functionality. Google Android 1.5 is expected to come by end of April and the enhancements are quite visible. First of all Google is planning some noticeable changes to its user interface for Android 1.5. Following are few of the screen shots of Android early days user...
Google Android Have New Feature Sets to Help...
Google Android is gaining popularity by leaps and bounds inspiring Google to improving Android in terms of user interface UI and functionality. Google Android 1.5 is expected to come by end of April and the enhancements are quite visible. First of all Google is planning some noticeable changes to its user interface for Android 1.5. Following are few of the screen shots of Android early days user...
Even Twitter Is Not XSS Safe
The Recent XSS attack on Twitter shows that even big site like twitter are not safe from XSS attack. Twitter is gaining popularity and so malicious users are trying to break it. Mike Mooney a 17-year-old teenager started playing with it as he got bored. After finding a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Twitter application, he altered the code on four Twitter accounts to leverage the...
Google App Engine Got Boost from Java
Google App Engine got a new boost from Java. Previously, developers were stuck into Python code and they were forced to use Python to work on Google App Engine. Many devevelopers requested that it should support Java programs. Python is a favoured language at Google labs but not so much popular elsewhere so it was frustrating for the developer community to learn Python then scale their...
Google App Engine Got Boost from Java
Google App Engine got a new boost from Java. Previously, developers were stuck into Python code and they were forced to use Python to work on Google App Engine. Many devevelopers requested that it should support Java programs. Python is a favoured language at Google labs but not so much popular elsewhere so it was frustrating for the developer community to learn Python then scale their...
Google App Engine Got Boost from Java
Google App Engine got a new boost from Java. Previously, developers were stuck into Python code and they were forced to use Python to work on Google App Engine. Many devevelopers requested that it should support Java programs. Python is a favoured language at Google labs but not so much popular elsewhere so it was frustrating for the developer community to learn Python then scale their...
PHP 5.3.0RC1 Release Candidate Available
Finally, PHP community have released their new candidate PHP 5.3.0 RC1 with lots of new features which were needed by the PHP developers from long time. This can be treated as the final release of PHP 5.x series, they will continue with PHP6 soon after they release it completely.
Added Features
PHP 5.3.0 offers many new features which are as follows:
They Now Support Namespaces, this is one of...
PHP 5.3.0RC1 Release Candidate Available
Finally, PHP community have released their new candidate PHP 5.3.0 RC1 with lots of new features which were needed by the PHP developers from long time. This can be treated as the final release of PHP 5.x series, they will continue with PHP6 soon after they release it completely.
Added Features
PHP 5.3.0 offers many new features which are as follows:
They Now Support Namespaces, this is one of...
March 2009
5 posts
Recession? 10 Tips to Manage Your Recession Hit...
Recession has put companies in a fix to cut on every possible things like resources, pay and expenditure etc. Recession has hit hard on the economy and companies are feeling the wrath so does their managers. Its evident that this recession is not going to leave soon, so what are the best managerial tips to manage your staff efficiently despite extraordinary marketplace pressures and decreased...
Recession? 10 Tips to Manage Your Recession Hit...
Recession has put companies in a fix to cut on every possible things like resources, pay and expenditure etc. Recession has hit hard on the economy and companies are feeling the wrath so does their managers. Its evident that this recession is not going to leave soon, so what are the best managerial tips to manage your staff efficiently despite extraordinary marketplace pressures and decreased...
How to Import CSV File In Your PHP Application
PHP gives an ease when it comes to Import flat data (Data without hierarchical structure). If you are using XML to fetch and store data that is fine but what about the case when your client have excel sheet ready with multiple records to go into database. CSV (Comma Separated Values) format is a good candidate format to import or export your application data.
Importing data from CSV files
Since we...
How to Import CSV File In Your PHP Application
PHP gives an ease when it comes to Import flat data (Data without hierarchical structure). If you are using XML to fetch and store data that is fine but what about the case when your client have excel sheet ready with multiple records to go into database. CSV (Comma Separated Values) format is a good candidate format to import or export your application data.
Importing data from CSV files
Since we...
How To Administer Risk Associated With Web...
Corporate around the world are working on innovative ideas and building web based applications as they provide flexibility, low maintainability cost, rich functionality and adds up the benefits of its own. Companies offering services are also major player and they will stay in the market for very long time (as per survey).
Software as a service (SaaS), in particular, is playing out pretty well in...
February 2009
21 posts
XHTML 2 or HTML 5 Which one is for you?
Overview of XHTML 2.0
XHTML 2.0 is based solely on XML, forgoing the SGML heritage and syntax peculiarities present in current web markup. XHTML 2.0 is supposed to be a “general-purpose language,” with a minimal default feature set that is easy to extend using CSS and other technologies (XForms, XML Events, etc). It’s a modular approach that allows the XHTML2 group to focus on generic document...
XHTML 2 or HTML 5 Which one is for you?
Overview of XHTML 2.0
XHTML 2.0 is based solely on XML, forgoing the SGML heritage and syntax peculiarities present in current web markup. XHTML 2.0 is supposed to be a “general-purpose language,” with a minimal default feature set that is easy to extend using CSS and other technologies (XForms, XML Events, etc). It’s a modular approach that allows the XHTML2 group to focus on generic document...
XHTML 2 or HTML 5 Which one is for you?
Overview of XHTML 2.0
XHTML 2.0 is based solely on XML, forgoing the SGML heritage and syntax peculiarities present in current web markup. XHTML 2.0 is supposed to be a “general-purpose language,” with a minimal default feature set that is easy to extend using CSS and other technologies (XForms, XML Events, etc). It’s a modular approach that allows the XHTML2 group to focus on generic document...
XHTML 2 or HTML 5 Which one is for you?
Overview of XHTML 2.0
XHTML 2.0 is based solely on XML, forgoing the SGML heritage and syntax peculiarities present in current web markup. XHTML 2.0 is supposed to be a “general-purpose language,” with a minimal default feature set that is easy to extend using CSS and other technologies (XForms, XML Events, etc). It’s a modular approach that allows the XHTML2 group to focus on generic document...
How Your HTML Becomes Garbage HTML?
Garbage HTML: Impact and Causes
Developers around the world are writing HTML pages and they try to be as specific as they can in terms of cross browser issues but when it comes to standards they usually ignore them. We can term such HTML pages created by them as wasteful HTML. These pages cost you in terms of bandwidth, load times and sometimes HTML rendering time. If you look at the source code...
How Your HTML Becomes Garbage HTML?
Garbage HTML: Impact and Causes
Developers around the world are writing HTML pages and they try to be as specific as they can in terms of cross browser issues but when it comes to standards they usually ignore them. We can term such HTML pages created by them as wasteful HTML. These pages cost you in terms of bandwidth, load times and sometimes HTML rendering time. If you look at the source code...
How Your HTML Becomes Garbage HTML?
Garbage HTML: Impact and Causes
Developers around the world are writing HTML pages and they try to be as specific as they can in terms of cross browser issues but when it comes to standards they usually ignore them. We can term such HTML pages created by them as wasteful HTML. These pages cost you in terms of bandwidth, load times and sometimes HTML rendering time. If you look at the source code...
Tips for Successful Project Effort Estimation
Project Time estimation is most important factor in projects lifeline. There are three types of estimation required for a project:
Effort Required
Project Duration
Project Cost
Effort estimation should be done first and that will help you determine the duration and thus cost. Following are few efforts estimation tips which can save lot of time for you. These tips are rather a process which...
Tips for Successful Project Effort Estimation
Project Time estimation is most important factor in projects lifeline. There are three types of estimation required for a project:
Effort Required
Project Duration
Project Cost
Effort estimation should be done first and that will help you determine the duration and thus cost. Following are few efforts estimation tips which can save lot of time for you. These tips are rather a process which...
15 Firefox Extensions You Can't Live Without
An extension is a small program or add on to Firefox and they have been around for as long as Firefox has. These extensions give you a super power if you will (or at least lets you do something you couldn’t do before.) Like automate things you do often or integrate a service right in your browser. Firefox gain popularity becuase of such extensions/addons, but keep in mind that each extension will...
Dangers of Adding fields to Database Tables
There are certain dangers if you don’t plan carefully before adding fields to your database. Though, it seems obvious but its not as simple as you might think. If you don’t plan properly you may miss something or ruin the current table which will consume lot of your time fixing. You must have come to a situation where things are looking so obvious but you aren’t getting a proper...
Linux v/s Windows: Linux is Winning
User community is slowly loosing its faith in Windows. Windows XP wins the heart of many people but Microsoft’s other products in OS range aren’t doing that well. Windows 7 is a buzz these days but many people from open source community feels that it will again be old wine in a new bottle. Community is feeling that Linux will be on top in OS community in near future. I know...
Linux V/S Windows: Linux is Winning
User community is slowly loosing its faith in Windows. Windows XP wins the heart of many people but Microsoft’s other products in OS range aren’t doing that well. Windows 7 is a buzz these days but many people from open source community feels that it will again be old wine in a new bottle. Community is feeling that Linux will be on top in OS community in near future. I know...
Linux V/S Windows: Linux is Winning
User community is slowly loosing its faith in Windows. Windows XP wins the heart of many people but Microsoft’s other products in OS range aren’t doing that well. Windows 7 is a buzz these days but many people from open source community feels that it will again be old wine in a new bottle. Community is feeling that Linux will be on top in OS community in near future. I know...
Tips to Increase Twitter Followers and Detect...
Twitter is gaining popularity ever since its launched. Now, website owners have started using the twitter power and they are using twitter not just for updates but for marketing purposes as well. So, how will you reap any benefits from twitter? The answer is simple, More Twitter followers means more exposure to your content. Fine, but how the heck you will have more followers? Read the complete...
How to Create Daemons in PHP
Developers are using PHP to create websites or web applications but very few developers are creating desktop applications or command line tools using PHP. There is a class System_Deamon, which can be used to create Deamons using PHP.
What is a Daemon?
A daemon is a Linux program that run in the background, just like a ‘Service’ on Windows. It can perform all sorts of tasks that do...
How to Create Daemons in PHP
Developers are using PHP to create websites or web applications but very few developers are creating desktop applications or command line tools using PHP. There is a class System_Deamon, which can be used to create Deamons using PHP.
What is a Daemon?
A daemon is a Linux program that run in the background, just like a ‘Service’ on Windows. It can perform all sorts of tasks that do...
How to Create Daemons in PHP
Developers are using PHP to create websites or web applications but very few developers are creating desktop applications or command line tools using PHP. There is a class System_Deamon, which can be used to create Deamons using PHP.
What is a Daemon?
A daemon is a Linux program that run in the background, just like a ‘Service’ on Windows. It can perform all sorts of tasks that do...
Creating Image Map using CSS
Image Map is used to present your pictures in much user friendly nature. They are great to present something to end users. Though, the rise of Flash has decreased the use of Image Maps but still there are places where you can use it.Image Map is basically an elaborate variation of the <a> tag, an image map allowed an image file to contain multiple hotspots that linked to any number of web...
How to Create Daemons in PHP
Developers are using PHP to create websites or web applications but very few developers are creating desktop applications or command line tools using PHP. There is a class System_Deamon, which can be used to create Deamons using PHP.
What is a Daemon?
A daemon is a Linux program that run in the background, just like a ‘Service’ on Windows. It can perform all sorts of tasks that do...
How to Create Daemons in PHP
Developers are using PHP to create websites or web applications but very few developers are creating desktop applications or command line tools using PHP. There is a class System_Deamon, which can be used to create Deamons using PHP.
What is a Daemon?
A daemon is a Linux program that run in the background, just like a ‘Service’ on Windows. It can perform all sorts of tasks that do...