April 18, 2013 — Static typing is great because it keeps you out of trouble. Dynamic typing is great because it gets out of your way and lets you get your work done faster. The debate between strongly and dynamically typed languages rages on. Read More…

February 14, 2013 — If people are on your website, they’re probably either skimming quickly, looking for something, or they’ve found what they’re looking for and want to read it as easily as possible. Either way, keeping text readable will help them achieve their goal. Read More…

October 4, 2012 — The trouble with a color’s name is that it never really is perceived as the exact same color to two different individuals —_especially if they have a stake in a website’s emotional impact. Name a color, and you’re most likely to give a misleading impression. Even something … Read More…

July 27, 2012 — When writing a web application from scratch, it’s easy to feel like we can get by simply by relying on a DOM manipulation library (like jQuery) and a handful of utility plugins. The problem with this is that it doesn’t take long to get lost in a nested pile of jQuery … Read More…

July 2, 2012 — Many people think of PHP, Ruby on Rails or Python and Django when choosing a language to create a new website or when choosing a language to learn to get that exciting new job. .NET, however, seems to occupy a space somewhat apart from this playground of cool kids. … Read More…

April 11, 2012 — I’m pretty confident that I won’t surprise anyone here by saying that CSS sprites have been around for quite a while now, rearing their somewhat controversial heads in the Web development sphere as early as 2003. Read More…

November 17, 2011 — Multisite is a powerful new feature that arrived with the release of WordPress 3.0. It allows website managers to host multiple independent websites with a single installation of WordPress. Read More…

October 7, 2011 — If you’re into WordPress development, you can’t ignore hooks for long before you have to delve into them head on. Modifying WordPress core files is a big no-no, so whenever you want to change existing functionality or create new functionality, you will have to turn to hooks. … Read More…

September 30, 2011 — WordPress plugins are PHP scripts that alter your website. The changes could be anything from the simplest tweak in the header to a more drastic makeover (such as changing how log-ins work, triggering emails to be sent, and much more). “plugin_creation”)]( … Read More…

September 21, 2011 — While many functions you already use in WordPress communicate with the database there is an easy and safe way to do this directly using the_$wpdb class. Built on the great_ezsql class by Justin Vincent,_$wpdbwill allow you to address queries to any table in your database, … Read More…