Tutorials
Using YQL to build a web app in a few hours
A couple of years ago I thought about building an ultra-simple site for browsing music videos with ease. The idea being that users may enjoy exploring artist’s back catalogues, viewing not just a band’s biggest hits, but also their lesser known tracks.
The only functions I deemed necessary for an alpha release were artist search, artist [...]
Switch from Hotmail… for your own sake!
I am constantly baffled by the number of people who still use Hotmail.
I accept that in 1999, if you wanted to be able to access your email from the Internet, Hotmail was the best option, but that was 1999!
Gmail is now 5 years old and since day 1, Gmail has linked emails into conversation [...]
Using HTML Purifier in Code Igniter to clean user generated content
Accepting user-generated content into your web application is one of the most risky parts of web application development.
Apart from the possibility of the user input containing HTML tags which may break your design and layout, there is also a wide range of security exploits, often via JavaScript, opened as soon as HTML user input is [...]
How to aggregate all of the answers to your StackOverflow questions into a single feed using Yahoo! pipes
Feed
Here is the feed I create in this article. Add your own user id to the URL to track your own answers by RSS:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ev_bWpYu3hGmnRCJgQSecQ&_render=rss&StackOverflow_UserID=42106
StackOverflow
I am a big fan of StackOverflow. The team there, Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky (and friends) have created an extremely valuable resource which goes some way to solving the many coding frustrations [...]
Why you should NOT use source control software
If you are just starting out as a software developer, you may have been advised to use source control software.
I think it may help you long term if at first you don’t .
At this point in your coding career, you do not really know the benefits of source control but you probably think it has [...]