Category Archives: Web development

Covers PHP, Javascript, Ajax, Python and other web languages.

10 life-saving PHP snippets

In order to be efficient, a web developer should have a toolbox with code snippets he can use and reuse when needed. In this article, I'm going to show you 10 extremely useful PHP code snippets to add to your web developer toolbox.

10 PHP code snippets for working with strings

Strings are a very important kind of data, and you have to deal with them daily with web development tasks. In this article, I have compiled 10 extremely useful functions and code snippets to make your php developer life easier.

Best practices for coding HTML emails

Even if you're able to code complex website layouts, coding an html email is a hard job and there's lots of things to take into consideration. This article features the most important things I've learned in 5 years of coding html emails.

10 sites developers should have in their bookmarks

Over the millions of websites available, some are true tools for us web developers. In this article, I have compiled 10 extremely useful sites for web developers, that should definitely be added to your bookmarks.

Manipulating the DOM with jQuery: 10+ useful code snippets

The Document Object Model is an API which allows developers to access, read, and modify the content of a web page. In this article, I'm going to show you 10+ extremely useful code snippets to manipulate the DOM using jQuery.

10+ regular expressions for efficient web development

In programming, regular expressions are a very useful tool designed to validate, search, and match text patterns. In this article, I have compiled more than 10 incredibly useful regular expressions, for any language, that will probably be very beneficial to you.

10 examples of futuristic CSS3 techniques

CSS3 has not been here for a long time, but talented designers have already found a lot of great ways to use it to create beautiful and efficient techniques. In this article, I'll show you the top 10 examples of what you can do using the power of CSS3.

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.

Getting started with CouchDB: a beginner’s guide

Have you ever dreamt about a powerful database that you can access easily, without using the SQL language? That what Apache CouchDB is all about. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to get started with this document-riented database and how you can use it with PHP.
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