Archive for the ‘Information’ Category

Minimizing HTTP Requests to Speed up your Page (Part 2)

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Continued form the previous post…. Inline images on the other hand embeds the image data directly onto the page itself eliminating the need for a separate function call. This has images directly encoded into the images combined with the program as it is compiled. This means no sizable images to pre-load ...

Minimizing HTTP Requests to Speed up your Page (Part 1)

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

Statistics and studies show that as much as 80% of the end-user’s time is spent on the loading of the front page which is not only time consuming but taxing on resources as well. Using simple and widely used tools and methods, it would be possible to cut the overhead ...

How to Deliver Content Fast

Saturday, March 19th, 2011

It used to be the norm of having all the information collated into one single server for ease of security and maintenance. With the internet and social media’s ever increasing reach, content delivery becomes a real issue and with the advent of cloud computing, loading times is all that matters. Geographical ...

Open Source Social Page Authentication Made Easy

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Using a little known library that has been uploaded through the community, HybridAuth contains access verification capabilities for social networking sites that are on the internet today. Developers are always on the lookout for the best and most robust ways of protecting people who do want to get into social ...

Galileo – Soon to Grace PHP

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Galileo, an open-source framework that was developed by the Eclipse Foundation and sponsored by IBM is set for launch tomorrow. Hailed as one of the newest innovations to the development and deployment of open-sourced projects that is becoming more and more prominent with the internet of today. Eclipse is a ...

The Alarming Security Gaps

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

PHP being the most used scripting language for deploying web pages is under a lot of scrutiny as well as the many projects that used it as framework. One of these is Wordpress which has suffered a lot of malicious attacks in the form of code insertion and comments spamming ...

Smarty – Template Easy

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Formatting is one of the hardest tasks to do with respect to cross-platform and scripting programs/pages. Smarty, one of the many PHP advocates has a complete line of products, from community-based ones to those aimed at more commercial purposes enabling the development of enterprise applications over the internet that are ...

PHP – Patching up the Mess

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

The world's most used scripting language for web page development is constantly under attack from many threats that continue to wage war against the many security holes that have been left by developers and programmers the world over. Programmers and developers are being blamed for most of the many security ...

Of image and file sizes

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

One of the things that annoy many people are pages that load slowly. A lot of times, this happens simply because the PHP programmer did not pay enough attention to the file sizes and image sizes he or she put into the page. It naturally follows that larger files and ...

PHP Development Tools Released

Friday, January 30th, 2009

The PHP community has again gotten a boost with the announcement that Eclipse is set to release their much loved PHP Development tools later this month. The developer tools included in the release is set to again make the lives of PHP developers a whole lot easier and has been ...