Author Archives: Jean-Baptiste Jung

Top 10 best practices for front-end web developers

Front-end web developent can seem to be easy at first, but producing a clean, semantic, and cross-browser code is definitely a hard job. In this article, I have compiled the top 10 best practices that have been useful to me in the past 3 years.

10 sql tips to speed up your database

On most websites, content is stored in a database and served to visitors upon request. Databases are very fast, but there's lots of things that you can do to enhance its speed and make sure you won't waste any server resources. In this article, I have compiled 10 very useful tips to optimize and speed up your website database.

10+ useful code snippets to develop iPhone friendly websites

When developing websites, you have to care about different browsers, as well as mobile devices such as iPhones or iPods. In this article, let's have a look at the 10+ most useful code snippets (Javascript, PHP, CSS, etc) for developing iPhone friendly websites, quickly and efficiently.

WordPress : 10+ life saving SQL queries

Although there's lots of things that you can do in WordPress, sometimes you may need a quick fix for a specific problem. In those cases, working directly on the database can be a real life-saver. In this article, I'm going to show you 10+ extremely useful SQL queries for WordPress.

10+ useful online code editors

As a developer, your main tool is obviously those that will allow you to turn your ideas into code: A text editor. As time go by, more online text editors are created that can help you code from any computer with internet access. In this article, let's have a look at 10+ useful online code editors.

How to easily monitor your web server using PHP

In order to make sure that your website is always available to the public, you have to monitor it. In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can easily create a monitoring script that will check your website availability and send an email or sms alert to you if it isn't.

10 ways to make Internet Explorer act like a modern browser

Like many other web developers, I definitely hate Internet Explorer, especially the version 6. At a time where new and powerful techniques as such as HTML5 and CSS3 are emerging, it's not surprising that IE can't handle them correctly. Luckily, a few tricks can make your life easier.

WordPress: How to easily create a Thematic child theme

Are Theme Frameworks the future of WordPress Themes? In this article, I'm going to show you how to easily create a child theme for the popular Thematic WordPress Theme framework.

10 interesting projects from Google Code

I may not like how Google is building a monopoly on the internet, but, I have to admit that most of their services are useful. As developers, it is useful to know that Google hosts a lot of open source projects. Today, let's have a look at the 10 most awesome projects hosted on Google code.

How to speed up your blog loading time

Often in blogging, you hear: "Content is king". This is true, but this isn't the only factor of a quality blog. Design is one of those other factors, and so is loading time. In this article, let's have a look at how you can easily speed up your blog.
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