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How To Build Website Backlinks By Using An Organic Approach

Ashish — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:11:31 +0000

How to build website backlinks in an organic way? The question is not so simple as you need to first know What are “backlinks”? Well, Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website which are also termed as Inbound links (IBL). They represent the popularity or importance as more and more people (sites) linking [...]

Top 12 Smart Tips To Work With SQL

Ashish — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:06:29 +0000

Your users probably don’t know a thing about SQL, but you know its value. It’s everywhere, it’s easy to learn, and SQL solutions are simple to implement. Whether you use SQL a lot or sparingly, working smarter with SQL will help you avoid errors and improve performance. Many SQLs are vendor-specific. The following tips apply to [...]

Best Practices of ActiveX Data Object (ADO)

Ashish — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:49:08 +0000

ADO - ActiveX Data Object is a library to manipulate data i.e. retrieving and storing records. Being a Microsoft library ADO offers great ease to help developers with their database queries. ADO is quite flexible and powerful as it doesn’t let the developer bother how the database is implemented. They can straightaway use the database [...]

MooTools v/s jQuery

Ashish — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:01:37 +0000

MooTools v/s jQuery is a hot topic as with the advent of technology every developer is using JavaScript in one way or another. Picking up a library is not an easy task specially if you are working somewhere where they already have a set pattern or their libraries defined. Ideally, every company is either working [...]

What Does It Take To Become An Intermediate Programmer From Beginner

Ashish — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:45:29 +0000

What does it take a beginner to become an intermediate programmer? Well the answer is not simple because the expertise, speed, efficiency and good coding practices etc. factors required may or may not be found in everyone. Internet is also divided in two types of blogs, articles, howto’s etc. Blog or articles aiming towards programming basics [...]

How to Improve Website Performance Using CSS Sprites

Ashish — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:57:20 +0000

CSS Sprites is a technique by which we can combine multiple images in a single big image and position the various parts of this big image with our elements using pure CSS attributes. The primary objective behind using CSS Sprites is to decrease the number of HTTP requests and thus decreasing the request stress on [...]

Deeper look into Google Android 1.5. Android 1.5 UI and Functionality

Ashish — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:40:17 +0000

Google Android is gaining popularity by leaps and bounds inspiring Google to improving Android in terms of user interface UI and functionality. Google Android 1.5 is expected to come by end of April and the enhancements are quite visible. First of all Google is planning some noticeable changes to its user interface for Android 1.5. [...]

Even Twitter Is Not XSS Safe

Ashish — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:39:12 +0000

The Recent XSS attack on Twitter shows that even big site like twitter are not safe from XSS attack. Twitter is gaining popularity and so malicious users are trying to break it. Mike Mooney a 17-year-old teenager started playing with it as he got bored. After finding a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Twitter [...]

Google App Engine Got Boost from Java

Ashish — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:16:04 +0000

Google App Engine got a new boost from Java. Previously, developers were stuck into Python code and they were forced to use Python to work on Google App Engine. Many devevelopers requested that it should support Java programs. Python is a favoured language at Google labs but not so much popular elsewhere so it was [...]

PHP 5.3.0RC1 Release Candidate Available

Ashish — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:06:35 +0000

Finally, PHP community have released their new candidate PHP 5.3.0 RC1 with lots of new features which were needed by the PHP developers from long time. This can be treated as the final release of PHP 5.x series, they will continue with PHP6 soon after they release it completely. Added Features PHP 5.3.0 offers many new features [...]

Recession? 10 Tips to Manage Your Recession Hit Staff

Ashish — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:23:18 +0000

Recession has put companies in a fix to cut on every possible things like resources, pay and expenditure etc. Recession has hit hard on the economy and companies are feeling the wrath so does their managers. Its evident that this recession is not going to leave soon, so what are the best managerial tips to [...]

How to Import CSV File In Your PHP Application

Ashish — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:13:13 +0000

PHP gives an ease when it comes to Import flat data (Data without hierarchical structure). If you are using XML to fetch and store data that is fine but what about the case when your client have excel sheet ready with multiple records to go into database. CSV (Comma Separated Values) format is a good [...]

How To Administer Risk Associated With Web Applications

Ashish — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:58:04 +0000

Corporate around the world are working on innovative ideas and building web based applications as they provide flexibility, low maintainability cost, rich functionality and adds up the benefits of its own. Companies offering services are also major player and they will stay in the market for very long time (as per survey). Software as a service [...]

How Your HTML Becomes Garbage HTML?

Ashish — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:15:30 +0000

Garbage HTML: Impact and Causes Developers around the world are writing HTML pages and they try to be as specific as they can in terms of cross browser issues but when it comes to standards they usually ignore them. We can term such HTML pages created by them as wasteful HTML. These pages cost you [...]

Tips for Successful Project Effort Estimation

Ashish — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:06:22 +0000

Project Time estimation is most important factor in projects lifeline. There are three types of estimation required for a project: Effort Required Project Duration Project Cost Effort estimation should be done first and that will help you determine the duration and thus cost. Following are few efforts estimation tips which can save lot of time for you. These tips [...]

15 Firefox Extensions You Can’t Live Without

Ashish — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:13:21 +0000

An extension is a small program or add on to Firefox and they have been around for as long as Firefox has. These extensions give you a super power if you will (or at least lets you do something you couldn’t do before.) Like automate things you do often or integrate a service right in [...]

Dangers of Adding fields to Database Tables

Ashish — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:31:43 +0000

There are certain dangers if you don’t plan carefully before adding fields to your database. Though, it seems obvious but its not as simple as you might think. If you don’t plan properly you may miss something or ruin the current table which will consume lot of your time fixing. You must have come to [...]

Linux v/s Windows: Linux is Winning

Ashish — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:14:44 +0000

User community is slowly loosing its faith in Windows. Windows XP wins the heart of many people but Microsoft’s other products in OS range aren’t doing that well. Windows 7 is a buzz these days but many people from open source community feels that it will again be old wine in a new bottle. Community [...]

Tips to Increase Twitter Followers and Detect Twitter Data

Ashish — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:19:50 +0000

Twitter is gaining popularity ever since its launched. Now, website owners have started using the twitter power and they are using twitter not just for updates but for marketing purposes as well. So, how will you reap any benefits from twitter? The answer is simple, More Twitter followers means more exposure to your content. Fine, [...]

Creating Image Map using CSS

Ashish — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:56:14 +0000

Image Map is used to present your pictures in much user friendly nature. They are great to present something to end users. Though, the rise of Flash has decreased the use of Image Maps but still there are places where you can use it.Image Map is basically an elaborate variation of the <a> tag, an [...]