‘Development’ Category

If you’re like me, and tend to have to be busy all the time in order to stay sane, you probably have a myriad hobbies as I do. I have always expressed an interest in development, and though not inherently gifted with a developer’s mind, I was intrigued by it to enough of an extent that I found I could muster the resolve to work hard enough to improve at it, both at work, and in my free time. There are awesome opportunities available today for developers who like to develop in their free time. Read on to see a number of such opportunities.

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Before I continue with writing this article, take note that I myself am not the most experienced or skilled of developers. I have only been doing Web development for just over two years, and as such have not been able to delve into it as much as many other veteran developers may have. However, I have always tried to make sure that I learn the best practises from the start so that I do not learn bad habits early on. As such, I have found many routines that I have either already implemented, or soon will be implementing in my development projects, and because of this, I can tell what other developers are, and are not, doing enough of. Read on to see what they are.

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The one thing I love on the internet is seeing how people can creatively portray boring old data in some amazing ways. This post covers some interesting infographics relating to our industry and some funny ones too.

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Adding Google Analytics takes the guess-work of how your site is performing, but how do you actually set it up? I’ve got a step-by-step tutorial on signing up for Google Analytics and how to add the tracking code to your Website.

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After a short while, developers will find that they prefer some tools more than others. Similarly, I have a group of tools and frameworks which I have found to be suited to my personal development environment which I use on a daily basis. Read on to see what they are and be sure to outline any tools that you have found to be helpful in your Web development projects in the comments.

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I have noticed, over the last couple of projects I have worked on, as well as in general within the Web Development industry, some frequently-asked-for features on Websites. The most frequent of these feature requests, is Facebook integration. In this article, I thought I would list a couple of these perceived necessities, and similarly, mention better alternatives where applicable.

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Recently I’ve been using CakePHP quite a bit, but prior to the large projects I had to undertake, because of how the projects I’d worked on previously had been somewhat small in scale, I didn’t have much experience using it in more irregular scenarios. Lately, however, I’ve been pushed a lot more and have been thrown in to the deep end if you will, of CakePHP. Dealing with topics like caching, security, and integration with APIs and vendors, I learnt a lot in a short amount of time. Therefore, I’m going to list a few of the things that I found helpful, so that maybe I can save someone some time in searching for the answers that took me long enough on my own.

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With the popularity of PHP frameworks increasing steadily each day, I thought that I could give my own two cents regarding which ones I prefer to use, and which scenarios I find each one to be ideal for.

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The Search Engine giant has been busy over the last few months, with some projects like: Google TV, Simplified Fonts on the Web, The Chrome Web App Store, Google Chrome Version 6, Google Wave Now Open to All & the introduction of the WebM Video Format.

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Occasionally you stumble across a page, that no longer exists, has moved or been renamed. When the server can’t find the Web page it’s looking for, our browser displays this error, this is quite a common error on the interent, and it’s code – 404.

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