Keith Frias sees himself as an artist whose talent is in a state of coma, and a tech gadget freak who also loves to dabble in photography.
So let’s say that you’re all ready set to release your mobile app for both Android and iOS devices which you’ve been working on for the past several months now and all that’s left for you to do is to have the required image dimensions (and appropriate file name format) for each submission to the [...]
Whenever a first-time visitor visits your page, it may take several HTTP requests before the web page finish loading. To speed up your website, it helps to use Expires header to make any web page components cachaeble. By doing this, you can avoid any unnecessary HTTP requests on subsequent page views. Expires headers are most [...]
QuickValidation.js is a jQuery plugin that allows you to build complex web forms. It will validate form data on the client-side based on the custom validation rules that you created before submitting it to the server. Created by Nik Korablin, what makes this different from the usual jQuery form validator plugin is that instead of [...]
Today’s helpful snippet will help you validate the filename of an image that’s being uploaded onto the server using JavaScript, making sure that it doesn’t consist of any unwanted spaces or invalid characters. This basically prevents the user from uploading or submitting any image file unless the proper format is used. <script language=”javascript”> function Checkfiles() [...]
Never has learning how to build apps using Ruby on Rails been so much easier and a lot more fun than playing Code School’s Rails for Zombies (or R4Z). Created by Gregg Pollack, R4Z is a clever attempt on introducing newbies to using Ruby on Rails. R4Z is an educational site with a twist. It [...]
jCapSlide is a new plugin that enables you to create a nice sliding caption for your site’s images. Hover your mouse cursor over the image and the caption will slide up/out from the bottom of the image while also applying a semi-transparent tinted overlay. Configurable properties include the following: caption_color – to change the caption’s [...]
Today’s tutorial comes in the form of a PHP snippet that will automatically sign out idle or inactive users on your site. Three functions are involved to complete the inactive session task: A function to check if the user is actually logged in using the isLogged function. A function to check the time the page [...]
If you’re currently working on developing an app for the iPhone then you might want to give our featured web development tool for today a whirl. Ratchet is a UI framework powered primarily by CSS and a little bit of JavaScript implemented through simple HTML. It is a nice prototype tool that allows you to [...]
One might think that the tasks and responsibilities of a web designer have now been made much easier because of responsive web design (RWD), but that is not quite true. Before RWD, it was just simply a matter of creating two versions of a website: mobile and desktop. But now that we have RWD coupled [...]
Today’s featured PHP snippet is from Jonas John and it’s a simple and helpful solution for controlling a file’s download rate. This is very beneficial for those who have limited bandwidth. The code is still a bit rough around the edges and could use a bit more polishing. Like for one, the execution time doesn’t [...]
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