Monthly Archives: January 2010

Speed up the JavaScript. It can change dramatically the user experience.

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Stoimen

JavaScript in a modern web application If someone asks you what is the javascript in modern web developer, probably you should answer it’s almost the half of the traffic of your site and it’s almost everything when dealing with user … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript, micro tutorial, web development | Tagged ajax, Computer science, Computing, Google Inc., http, javascript, JavaScript library, JavaScript programming language, JSON, Minification, Software engineering, Technology/Internet, The Times Global Broadcasting Co Ltd, Twitter Inc, Web application, web apps, web developer, web development, Yahoo! Inc., YouTube Inc | Leave a comment

Optimizing CSS. Five simple steps!

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Stoimen

In the spirit of the optimization wave this post is about CSS optimization. There are some simple rules that you can apply. I’m pretty sure most of us have already been familiar with that list, but you never know. 1. … Continue reading →

Posted in css, micro tutorial | Tagged Cascading Style Sheets, Computing, DOM, Google Inc., http, Minification, Software engineering, software minifies, sprite, Steve Souders, Style sheet, Technology/Internet, Web design | Leave a comment

Cool tutorial about Zend_Paginator

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Stoimen

Every part of Zend Framework is indeed very profesional and useful. But as it happens often some modules are less used than others. Don’t know why but my feeling is that Zend_Paginator, a wonderful tool for pagination is really misunderstood. … Continue reading →

Posted in zend framework | Tagged Computer programming, Computing, Integrated development environments, Joey Rivera, PHP programming language, Software architecture, Software engineering, Software framework, Technology/Internet, tutorial, Twitter Inc, Web 2.0, Web application frameworks, web apps, web development tasks, web project, wonderful tool, zend, zend framework | Leave a comment

Escaping strings in a Zend Framework view. Prevent unclosed tags!

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Stoimen

In most of the tutorials about Zend Framework the simple theory is described how all these MVC things may work together. However beyond that the things become more and more tricky and not everything is done by the MVC pattern … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, zend framework | Tagged controller, Model–view–controller, PHP, Software architecture, Software engineering, Web application frameworks, zend framework | Leave a comment

Make your own link shortener

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Stoimen

Why you should do that? First of all what’s a link shortener? Such online software exists and it’s widely used by the customers. Sites like bit.ly became extremely popular because of the growth of web apps like Facebook and especially … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, web development | Tagged caching, Computing, Hash table, Twitter Inc, URL, URL shortening | Leave a comment