This handy little bit of JQuery code lets you connect your website to twitter to extract information from single tweets from your stream to tweets from multiple users! or even a search for your company or band name. for more information on this handy bit of code visit their website: http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/
Looking at creating a login system using PHP that’s more secure then the traditional set up, it will also let users stay logged in via cookies set on the devices This theory for logging users in essentially requires 3 bits of information to beheld in cookies on their computers when they login, the first is…
This code snipit checks to see if the input is a valid email or not, it will even check to see if the domain name is in use so ‘fake’ email domains will be rejected, this will help keep your database clean! 1 <pre><code>function isValidEmail($email) { //Perform a basic syntax-Check //If this check fails, there's…
Insuring that data entered into forms and via the URL of a website (POST & GET) is ‘safe’ to use is vital to preventing hackers from getting into your website this snipit of PHP code will let you do just that, make sure you run it before saving information to a database and before…
after playing with the folder display options in Lion i set a background image for my images folder, the outcome of this was that finder would then use 6GB of RAM before crashing each time i tried to open the images folder, because it crashed when i tried to open it i was unable to…
After having some file transfer issues with mac OSX 10.6 i upgraded to 10.7 (Lion) which i am glad to say has resolved the file transfer issue but has changed totally the way in which the track pad works which is doing my head in, why apple didn’t give people the option of selecting track…
When redesigning a website or adding / removing pages it is important that any old URLs are forwarded on correctly so that users are not left with dead links and search engine spiders scanning your site do not penalise you for non working links. So how do you forward on pages in a way that…
A list of 14 PDF ebooks with information on colour and web design, bookmarking to read through when i have some spare time! http://designbeep.com/2012/04/24/importance-of-color-in-web-design14-useful-free-pdf-ebooks-for-web-designers/ if you get chance to read and find them useful let me know.
this bit of code for wordpress lets you see how many queries your pages are making and more importantly how long they are taking to do 1 <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries in <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. this will let you identify wordpress websites that are under performing and help you locate and correct the…
this useful bit of code will let you use shortcodes in your text widgets for your sidebars in wordpress: 1 add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode'); add the code to your functions.php in your themes folder source: http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-add-shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets