How to Make a .com Website

Posted by on Apr 5, 2012 in Web Development Tutorials | 1 comment

The internet is ingrained in most of our day to day lives at this point. It’s hard for me to imagine a day that I do not touch the...

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Simple Array Comparison with Ruby

Posted by on Mar 23, 2012 in Ruby, Web Development Tutorials | 2 comments

I ran into a task where I needed to find the differences with some data. Since I’ve not spent much time with ruby I decided to give...

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Why Zen-Coding is an Awesome Time Saver

Posted by on Feb 29, 2012 in Productivity, Web Development Tutorials | 6 comments

If you are a web developer doing any kind of CSS and HTML work then you need to be using the zen-coding plugins. So what exactly is zen-coding? It's not a new language, but more of shortcut system for generating structured code, such as HTML or XML, using a CSS selector like syntax. If you don't get it yet, you'll see the beauty within seconds of playing with the language.

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What’s new in HTML 5

Posted by on Dec 27, 2011 in HTML Tutorials, Web Development Tutorials | 4 comments

It’s been way too long since we’ve posted anything. With all the news around HTML5 and CSS3 that continues to come out, I...

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Fix the timthumb.php WordPress exploit

Posted by on Aug 2, 2011 in Web Development Tutorials, WordPress Tutorials | 3 comments

There was a recent exploit found in a common file used to generate thumbnails. I found out about the exploit from Mark Maunder’s...

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Parsing XML Feed to an Array with XPath

Posted by on Jan 15, 2011 in PHP Tutorials, Programming Tutorials, XML | 0 comments

Recently while working on a project, I found myself needed to parse several different types of files through the same mechanism (CSV, pipe delimited, XML, and more). I decided that it would be best to get each time of feed to a identical object that could then be run through the same methods regardless of the input type. This tutorial will walk you through using PHP and XPath to parse the values from an XML file and store them into array for later manipulation.

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