January 1, 2010, in Programming,Web Design.
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The year 2010 is beginning, and this is the time when everyone is making New Year's resolutions. One resolution that I always hear is to be healthier. While that's more of a long-term resolution that you'll probably forget the next day, you can help the "heath" of your website, project, or anything by removing the extra bloat.
What I mean by "removing the bloat" is getting rid of extra features or components that aren't absolutely necessary for something to be what it is. Whether it is caused by feature creep, scope creep, or poor planning in general, removing excess bloat can be helpful for everyone.
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December 28, 2009, in Programming.
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It's often said that time is money. Because it's important to save money, it should also be important to save time. Whether you do web design, web development, software development, it can always be helpful to save a bit of time in what you're doing.
Here are some tips to remember to help speed up your development.
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December 24, 2009, in PHP,Programming,Web Design.
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I recently got a question from a reader following the "Creating a PHP CMS" series of tutorials asking about customizing the home page to be different from the rest of the site.
Continue reading to find out how to customize the home page in our simple CMS.
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December 23, 2009, in Programming.
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This is a guest post by Oscar Del Ben.
Ruby on rails is a popular web framework written in Ruby that has been widely adopted in the last few years by many web developers. This post is for those who still have to try this framework and come from a different language, for example php.
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December 17, 2009, in Programming.
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Sure, you can probably read your own style of coding now. But what if some other unfortunate person has to work with your terrible, unreadable code? What if you have to go back and look over your old code, a year from now?
I'm sure you'd rather get your work done, instead of spending hours digging around through unreadable code, right?
To save time in the future, you should start to write readable code today.
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