BizLab Web Development

PHP Round Numbers By Half Tutorial

2010-10-30T19:28:13Z

While working on an interesting contest poll / voting system for wiki-pet.com. I needed to develop a function that will round numbers to the nearest half, since the poll will allow half star voting. While seemingly simple at first glance, this is the kind of problem that may cause you some extra unneeded frustration in your hectic day. Wiki Pet will be having a "Cutest Pet" competition in the near future, and i'm building a pretty nifty application to allow users to vote on which p...

Twitter Feed Application Tutorial

2010-10-12T10:21:24Z

So I was looking over the Twitter API the other day, and I noticed they have officially switched their system to the Oauth protocol. All 3rd party applications now need to go through a complicated (while better) hand shake process before being granted access to account information. This is a giant leap forward for Twitter, but it may leave most average web developers scratching their heads, breaking things, and even slapping the keyboard around a bit and no one wants to see that! I have writt...

BizLab Version 3.0

2010-08-14T21:42:52Z

Being a web developer, I tend to design and re-design the BizLab website over and over again. The website has had many faces in the past few years and the last major version was built during the monstrous Wiki Pet project which, needless to say, didn't allow much time for the development of this sometimes neglected website. The latest version of BizLab.us went live today, and embodies various attributes of all the previous versions of the site and also includes new graphic design aspects tha...

Web Standards.. What's the big deal anyway?

2009-08-10T06:42:31Z

Consider this: You are building your first home somewhere tropical, like Puerto Rico. It's a pretty house on the outside and everything inside seems to be in its place. Hurricane season arrives and WHAM! your roof flies off with the first Level 2 wind burst to come your way... It seems your contractor forgot to install the mandatory hurricane straps on your roof... Ooops! Tip# 1 - Don't use the free online andquot;website in an hour - with NO programming requiredandquot; style template bu...

GoDaddy.com Web Hosting Review

2009-08-09T06:35:22Z

There are hundreds of companies that offer web hosting services today. While most seems to offer a similar product, there are many details behind the scenes that are critical to your ability to maintain a well performing website. I have listed a few of these important features below: - Uptime guarantee: the higher the better (look for 99.9%) - Free Web traffic reports - Free Database - Free Email accounts - Linux or Unix based server - FTP file publishing system While all of the major...

The Browser Experience

2009-08-08T11:10:18Z

Before we begin, i would like to define a few of the terms you will see quite frequently in this short article. A andquot;browserandquot; or andquot;web browserandquot; is a software program used to view web pages on the internet. Popular brands include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari. Want to skip the article and just download the newest browser? Don't forget that it is FREE to update your web browsers. Here is our chart displaying the most current versions o...