Valid-Webs Web Development

Slow WordPress Issues and Related Reasons

Jeff Behnke — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:18:52 +0000

I see a lot of people complain about their WordPress site being slow to load. The Internet is full of complaints about this issue and people asking for help to........
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Code Completion in phpStorm with phpBB3

Jeff Behnke — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:00:32 +0000

As I mentioned in a previous phpStorm post, phpStorm is my favourite PHP IDE. Since I do a lot of work with phpBB3, I have a couple tips for code........
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phpBB Invitation Only Mod [update]

Jeff Behnke — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:55:36 +0000

This is a minor update for the phpBB3 invitation only mod. For current users that have it installed you only need to change out the template ucp_add_user.html The UMIL package........
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Code Completion for CodeIgniter in phpStorm

Jeff Behnke — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:11:17 +0000

Open source projects can sometimes be a bit of a pain in phpStorm. Here I am going to show how to fix code completion for CodeIgniter in phpStorm. Common Issues........
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Grid for aligning HTML elements

Jeff Behnke — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:10:53 +0000

When it comes to layout markup and CSS I use FireBug and the Webdeveloper Toolbar for FireFox constantly. With HTML block alignment a useful tool is the ruler under the........
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Code completion in phpStorm with WordPress

Jeff Behnke — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:17:05 +0000

I use phpStorm pretty much exclusively for PHP development, for over a year. It simply has some awesome features. But there are some things that people tend to complain about.........
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BenchMark Limbo with ORMs

Jeff Behnke — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:44:52 +0000

So the story goes like this…. I have been building a business model and planning out a SaaS application for a future company I am building. In the process I........
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Playing in the Clouds

Jeff Behnke — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:11:04 +0000

From about mid 2009 I have been running dedicated servers, self managed. Since then I have been following the growing trend of cloud hosting solutions. So I have been looking........
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Long Time no Write

Jeff Behnke — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:17:00 +0000

Its been quite some time since I have written an article. There are a lot of reasons, the biggest being time, the second reason is new adventures. I will share........
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Top 5 Common Mistakes in Theme Building

Jeff Behnke — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:11:02 +0000

I see a ton of theme builders sprouting out of the woodwork everyday. The problem is a lot of them have great ideas about the design, but the big part........
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