Tag Archive | "Web Development"

Hadoop – Part 1

November 1, 2010 No comments yet

Hadoop is an extremely powerful and popular framework for large-scale application and data distribution. Companies like Amazon, Twitter, Rakuten and Facebook deploy Hadoop across clusters of literally thousands of machines crunching petabytes of data under thousands of processing cores.

Internationalization and Partial Rendering in the CodeIgniter Framework

September 6, 2010 No comments yet

As experienced Web developers, it won’t shock you to find literally thousands of comparisons between CodeIgniter and the other popular frameworks you may be considering for your site. Each framework has its good and, ummm… less good points, but

Scrape the First Paragraph & Image from a Wikipedia Entry

July 26, 2010 No comments yet

Automate fetching Wikipedia descriptions and images for webpage content. Render content dynamically based on specific keywords.

Blogger Template Wizardry

June 4, 2010 No comments yet

Google’s Blogger is the eighth most popular site on the entire Web today, and by far the most popular free blogging site. According to Google, Blogger now hosts over 300 million blogs and publishes 388 million words per day – simply staggering figures. Let’s look at some of the more compelling reasons for Blogger’s popularity.

HTML Email Compatibility Across Mail Clients

May 17, 2010 2 comments

Lots of compatibility issues occur when HTML developers deal with HTML-formatted emails generated using server side languages like PHP, PERL, JAVA, etc. in their projects.

From time to time you’ll find the odd gobbledygooked message in your Web-based email app, but generally speaking HTML-formatted messages render flawlessly on the Web.  On the other hand, desktop mail clients such as Outlook on Windows, Mail.app on OS X, and the rainbow flavors of desktop Linux (Ubuntu, Centos, and so on) routinely have rendering issues with HTML-based email.

Despite the incredible advances in modern software, why does this continue to happen?

The answer is quite simple: certain mail clients ignore certain HTML tags.  Now there’s no universal rule as to which ignores what, but the more you code the more you’ll learn, so for now let’s take a look at one case with Outlook.

For many users, email ‘stationery’ conjures up late 90s memories of Incredimail and a general, unsavory n00bishness.  But for marketing purposes a well-designed mail template, consisting of a stylish background image, thoughtful font selection, layout and copy equates to sales.  Perhaps thousands of people – from prospective clients to the media – will view mail…

No IE6 support on new W3C website?

March 27, 2009 No comments yet

W3.org is overhauling its website in order to make it more user-friendly and quiet people who used to wonder (including me) why the administrator body of web have such dull, flat, unorganized and old fashioned website?

The new website looks more attractive and organized. 10 minutes tour of new website can be found here. In contrast with the previous version, this new website uses rich content presentation, including JavaScript.

The website uses jQuery 1.3.2, a very known and popular JavaScript library, instead of pure JavaScript. This is very good news and a big leap towards streamlining the use of JavaScript frameworks, specially in case of jQuery. In addition of core jQuery framework, beta.w3.org also uses jQuery plugins (e.g.: http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/), to enhance the user experience.

The biggest news of the day is w3.org beta website doesn’t render correctly in IE6. It’s supposed to be a strong argument for web developers in order to inspire and take initiative towards to stop exclusive coding to render their websites correctly in IE6.

See, Yes! Yes! – GO

December 9, 2008 2 comments

Modular CSS needs to be developed and all inherited properties needs to commented within CSS declaration so one don’t repeat same CSS again and selectors needs to named by some naming convention (e.g. prefixing every declaration by module).

Modules needs to be devised in such way so it remain plug and play if plugged in different application.

See, Yes! Yes! – READY

October 28, 2008 4 comments

In today’s web arena, CSS has proved its importance in rigid way. Web content is no more targeted to web browsers only, Web content is been served for a verity of media now days. To efficiently handle such situation CSS plays a very crucial role.

In order to extract maximum pulp from CSS fruit there are few things needs to keep in mind. Although rule of thumb is efficiency is directly proportional to experience but I’ll point out few options 3-part post series See, Yes! Yes! – READYSee, Yes! Yes! – STEADY and See, Yes! Yes! – GO. which can help novice CSS developers to take right diversions.

All of following points are optional and one can modify them according to needs and/or simply drop the idea.

Big Picture:

Planning is a must for mid or big projects…for small projects one can instantly start coding.

While coding for new design, web designer must analyze the design mock-up and slice the design by keeping in mind the facts which are resultant of observation and guideline of website/blog/web application.

e.g.

  • What portion of design mock can be translated by using CSS rules instead