Author Archives: Jean-Baptiste Jung

Creating an url shortener using Python

On twitter, everybody is using an url shortener. Though, there can be several problems using an external service, as for example the fact that there's no garantee that your shortened urls will always be available. So, what about creating our own URL shortner, using the Python language?

How to make a translatable WordPress theme

Althought English is the most represented language over the Internet, it is a good thing to think about people who speak other languages and offer them trabslated WordPress theme. In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how to take a WordPress theme and make it translatable for any language.

10+ JQuery tutorials for working with HTML forms

Forms are definitely one of the most important part of a website, because it is used for interaction between you and your readers. Among other tools, JQuery can help you to enhance your html forms functionality.

15 PHP regular expressions for web developers

Regular expressions are a very useful tool for developers. They allow to find, identify or replace text, words or any kind of characters. In this article, I have compiled 15+ extremely useful regular expressions that any web developer should have in his toolkit.

Create your own private Twitter site using WordPress

With the incredible popularity of Twitter theses days, many people are asking themselves how can they create their own Twitter-like network for their family, friends or company. This may be a lot easier than you think. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to do it easily, using WordPress.

15 sites web developers and designers should know

Creating a good website isn't an easy task, but there's a few tools that can definitely make your developer or designer life easier. In this article, I have compiled 15 extremely useful website that any web developer or web designer should have bookmarked.

15+ techniques and tools for cross browser CSS coding

Making your website compatible with a wide range of browsers is probably the hardest task of a front-end developer. To make your coder life easier, here is 15+ tools and techniques for crossbrowser CSS development.

Top 10 WordPress hacks from June ‘09

Every month, lots of WordPress users are posting new hacks and tips about their favorite blogging platform on their own blog. Here is our personnal selection of the 10 most useful and ashtonishing WordPress hacks from June 2009.

10 awesome things to do with cURL

cURL, and its PHP extension libcURL, are tools which can be used to simulate a web browser. In fact, it can for example, submit forms. In this article, I'm going to show you 10 incredible things that you can do using PHP and cURL.

10 incredibly cool WordPress shortcodes

Introduced in WordPress 2.5, shortcodes are a very easy way to display lot of things on your blog posts by inserting a very simple code. In this article, I'm going to show 10 incredible things shortcodes can do.
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