Category: Web Development

December 3, 2008

Lifestreaming the easy way

I recently discovered a new PHP/MySQL lifestream tool named Sweetcron. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of lifestreams, a lifestream simply displays posts you have made to your social networks, blogs, photo sites, etc. It displays a stream of content that is representative of your life, I suppose. I began playing around with lifestreams a few months ago after seeing Joe Tan’s lifestream. […]

November 29, 2008

15 Minute SEO List

Kelvin Chan clued me into a fantastic page from webconfs.com that lists the best and worst practices for search engine optimization. Check it out here: 15 Minute SEO List – Learn how to SEO

November 26, 2008

Protecting against SQL injection in PHP

MySQL’s DevZone provides chapter 3 of php|architect’s Guide to PHP Security for free download. The chapter explains how to protect your PHP applications from SQL injection. Download it now.

November 23, 2008

Get SitePoint’s “The Art & Science of CSS” for free!

My absolute favorite web design and development resource publisher is giving away the PDF edition of The Art & Science of CSS, one of their many books. I haven’t read much of the book yet, but I like what I’ve seen so far. To take advantage of this terrific offer, go to Twitaway.com and follow SitePoint on Twitter or give SitePoint your email address. The offer […]

November 21, 2008

Yahoo! BrowserPlus now available

As a follow-up to a previous post, I am excited to note that Yahoo! has released its BrowserPlus technology for general use! This looks like a promising technology and I look forward to playing around with it. I certainly won’t be using it in any client sites any time soon, but I can see it becoming useful in the future.

July 24, 2008

Yahoo! BrowserPlus

Yahoo! recently released a “Sneak Peak” of BrowserPlus, “a technology for web browsers that allows developers to create rich web applications with desktop capabilities.” Perhaps “released” isn’t the right word – Yahoo! is providing the documentation along with a number of demos that utilize the technology, but they are not opening the technology for use by developers yet. BrowserPlus has promise and is a technology […]

October 7, 2007

Microformats

I’ve been reading up on Microformats, especially hCard and hCalendar, which are XHTML equivalents of the vCard and iCalendar standards, respectively. Michael McCracken explains the usefulness of Microformats like this: With Microformats, you can send & publish things like events, business cards, and product reviews as meaningful XHTML that a person can read in a browser, but a program can import, index and remix as […]