10+ regular expressions for efficient web development

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 27 Comments

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

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 50 Comments

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

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 98 Comments

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

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 57 Comments

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

by Matt Apperson. 34 Comments

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.

10+ useful code snippets to develop iPhone friendly websites

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 72 Comments

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

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 64 Comments

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

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 65 Comments

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

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 47 Comments

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

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 134 Comments

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.