Category Archives: web development

PHP Performance: Bitwise Division

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Stoimen

Recently I wrote about binary search and then I said that in some languages, like PHP, bitwise division by two is not faster than the typical “/” operator. However I decided to make some experiments and here are the results. … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP, web development | Tagged bitwise operation, bitwise operators, division, performance tests, PHP, php performance, research | 1 Comment

OOP JavaScript: Accessing Public Methods in Private Methods

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Stoimen

As you know in JavaScript when you define a variable with the special word “var” the scope of this variable is within the function. So when you simply wite “var a = 5″ the variable named “a” has a global … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript, micro tutorial, web development | Tagged Accessing Private, C, Class, Computer programming, Computing, Curly bracket programming languages, javascript, JavaScript programming language, Object-oriented programming, oop, private, public, Scripting languages, Software engineering, Subroutine | 2 Comments

Object Oriented JavaScript: Inheritance

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Stoimen

Objects and JavaScript JavaScript, being a functional language, differs from most of the procedural/object oriented languages we know. The object oriented approach in JavaScript is rather strange. However there is much power in making objects! The syntax is really odd … Continue reading →

Posted in web development | Tagged ajax, Class, code sample, code snippet, Computer programming, Computing, Curly bracket programming languages, Education, Inheritance, javascript, JavaScript programming language, JSON, Literal, object oriented, Object-oriented programming, objects, oop, oop javascript, Scripting languages, Software engineering | 10 Comments

Scroll an IFRAME Content to a Predefined Position

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Stoimen

IFRAME Source Usually when you use an IFRAME tag to link an external source the page that’s referenced by the SRC attributes is loaded at the top left corner. This is the default behavior, but sometimes you’d like to show … Continue reading →

Posted in css, micro tutorial, web development | Tagged absolute iframe content, css, how-to, iframe, tutorial | 7 Comments

How to Collect the Images and Meta Tags from a Webpage with PHP

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Stoimen

Meta Tags and the Facebook Example You’ve definitely seen the “share a link” screen in Facebook. When you paste a link into the box (fig. 1) and press the “Attach” button you’ll get the prompted cite parsed with a title, … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, web development | Tagged Computing, Facebook, Facebook Inc, html, HTML element, LinkedIn Corporation, Meta element, Meta Tags, Online social networking, PHP, Search engine optimization, search engines, social services, tag, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, Web page, World Wide Web | 2 Comments