Firefox excels when it comes to addons and there is over 121 million on the official website. Shifting through them I’ve come up with 5 essential addons for web development that are available cross-platform, some you’ve probably heard of but nevertheless important to put down.
As a website developer I was confusing the practice of SEO with what I like to term SEF (Search Engine Friendly), something which I believe is a common misconception out there. I thought I would help define the clear differences by writing this as it’s something of great interest to me at the moment.
A quick example on embedding Flash objects in valid XHTML Strict.
In this reference we’re going to look at how to “decrypt” (or more accurately “collide”) MD5 and SHA1 hashes by creating a resource of pre-hashed words.
Providing you know SQL you can perform SQL injections on websites that perform unescaped queries. In this reference we’ll use a hands on approach and start by performing our own basic injections based on website user input and then looking into prevention methods.
After setting the Windows hard drive as the primary boot device I set out to not only read the Linux filesystem (ext3) with all my work but to also continue it in Apache under Windows which, to my surprise, was actually very easy. By the end of this reference you should be able to use your Linux filesystem within Windows and use Apache to read and use the website related content off your Linux filesystem.
With the release of this Journal I decided to use Wordpress’ permalinks, which basically provides an easy hassle-free option for rewriting Wordpress’ URI’s. When uploading my most recent site there was a conflict with .htaccess and my rewrites simply weren’t working.
The PHP DOMDocument class in PHP allows you to manipulate HTML and XML files by getting elements, creating elements, validating pages, saving pages and more.
In this quick example we’ll use the DOM Document class to extract links from a remote page, something I’ve had to do recently.
I recently encountered this problem using Javascript and Internet Explorer. It worked perfectly fine in other browsers although (for a change) I think MSHTML has got this right enforcing good practice.
Object Doesnt Support this Property or Method can occur in Internet Explorer when you declare a variable that has the same name as a document object.
I’ve recently started to develop with the Linux alpha version of Flex Builder and was looking around for a decent introduction for using Flex 3 with PHP. Unfortunately there was nothing basic and the majority of articles related to Flex 2 and simply didn’t work. So here is an article ground down to the bare basics.
Putting lists inside lists does not validate with the W3C Markup Validation Service. The only method to nest lists relatively with valid XHTML is to nest the entire list within a list element.
Dan Gibbs is a web developer, designer and SEO consultant involved in devon web design.