Code
I like to develop and use the knowledge that I acquired from books, web development resources etc. to make something new and useful out of it. This section is dedicated to those pieces of work that I’d like to share with the community in the hope that people try this stuff out and give me feedback. With your expertise, my dear fellow web cracks, I am able to develop myself even more…
In addition to coding, I would also like to use this section to note down several interesting and useful things – at least useful for my kind of work as a Web Developer, I guess. So if I find the time to write an article on something I consider important for my work – or for anybody that works as a Web Developer, likely you can find it in here.
WordPress Plugins
JACF – Just Another Contact Form
JACF is my first approach to developing a WordPress plugin. I needed a contact form for my blog, so why not start and develop your own? This is the result. Feel free to check it out. Includes JavaScript validation on the client side and an extra question-field to prevent spam.
GeoLinkr
This plugin displays georeferences, which are basically mentions of cities and towns, on your page on a map using Google Maps API. All you need to do, apart from installing the plugin, is wrapping the name of the city, e.g. Vancouver, in anchor-tags and setting the rel attribute to “geolinkr”.
I Am Here
With the use of Fire Eagle, Yahoo! Maps API, Google Weather API, GeoNames and World Time Engine, it displays information about your current location in a widget in the sidebar of your WordPress Theme.
Shrinkr
Increases the performance of your web site by minifying your CSS and JavaScript files.
Articles
Valid XHTML Document: The Basics
Describing the foundations of a valid XHTML document, including DOCTYPE, XML Prolog and Character encoding.
List of Meta Elements
Listing the most common meta elements to be used on an HTML page, explaining their purpose and how to use them.
Data Tables: Best Practice
A tutorial that explains how to create accessible and easy-to-style tables for displaying tabular data.
Forms: Best Practice
Properly marking up forms in HTML with accessibility in mind.
CSS Coding Standards
Collections of guidelines when writing CSS.
JavaScript Programming Patterns
Explaining different ways of how patterns can be applied to the JavaScript language to make programming nicer and more efficient.
JavaScript Inheritance
An attempt to explain how the rather complex concept of inheritance works in JavaScript.
(My) JavaScript Coding Guidelines and Standards
Standards are good, especially when you stick to them and make others agree that they are good idea. While working at Yahoo! I was trying to put up some standards for coding in JavaScript in my own projects.
JavaScript Tips, Tricks and Specialities
A collection of specialities of the JavaScript programming language and and archive where I keep notes of my finding and research.
SEO Guidelines
A collection of SEO guidlines, tips and tricks based on various resources on the internet.
A glimpse at Unix Commands
Working in Web Development makes it almost inevitable at some point to get in touch with the Unix Command Line. This list of useful commands should at least make it easier for those who are used to their graphic-rich visual OS environments.
Getting started with PEAR
A quick introduction into PEAR, covering installation on shared host environments and a simple example.
Regular Expressions: Practical Examples
A list of practical hands-on examples to solve real-world problems using Regular Expresssions using PHP and JavaScript. With explanations as to how the patterns work.
Rewrite Rules: Practical Examples
Using Apache Rewrite Rules can turn ugly-looking URLs into meaningful and, what is even more important, SEO-friendly URLs. Some practical examples might help to figure out what they do and how they work.
Cheat Sheets for Eclipse, Komodo Edit and vi
Three simple cheat sheets available for download as well as links to resources to obtain more cheat sheets.