Archive - Mar 22, 2010

Want better browsers? Make Them Look Good

The web industry supports an interesting ecosystem that highlights a tenuous relationship between browser makers and who I like to collectively call web professionals, comprising web developers and designers. Browser makers want to make the best browsers for their customers, web professionals want to make the best sites for their clients.

When To Use HTML Entities?

"When I write user input to my database, I generally use either PHP's htmlentities function or the mysql_real_escape_string function. But my page is encoded in UTF8, so is it necessary to convert all special characters to HTML entities? "

AR DB Interface

Package:
AR DB Interface
Summary:
Manage table records as objects using ActiveRecord
Groups:
Databases, Design Patterns, PHP 5
Author:
dave gebler
Descr

Ext Direct App

Package:
Ext Direct App
Summary:
Call PHP classes from Javascript using ExtJS
Groups:
AJAX, PHP 5
Author:
João Bruni
Description:
This class can be used to call PHP classes from Javascript using ExtJS

The Web Developer Toolbar Comes to Chrome

Chris Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar was one of the first extensions developed for Firefox. Personally, I think it was one of the primary reasons many developers switched to and evangelized Mozilla’s browser.

7 Niche-Focused Microblogging Sites

Whether you’re a Twitter user or not, it’s hard to dispute that Twitter has quickly dominated the microblogging market and left little room for other microblogging sites to stake a claim. But Twitter can’t possibly meet every need of every user, so there is room for other microblogs to pick up where Twitter has left off; namely, by focusing on specific niches.
Here are 7 microblogging sites that focus on very specific niches for targeted users.

How To Find Investors?

"Hello. In a few words, here is where I am. I started building websites more than a decade ago. Worked for a company, made good money. I then created my own company, started to build websites of my own, made profits through..."