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  • Why Frameworks Are Better

    Are you a person who dislikes frameworks?  Or are you a person who loves frameworks?  Or are you even a person who isn’t quite sure what a framework is?  The following article will discuss the pros and cons of frameworks and the common downfalls that people fall into.

    I’m not sure if it’s only people I meet or a world-wide thing, but it seems people do not like to use frameworks (at least at first).  At my work, we use them on every new project.  So, when a new hot shot developer joins our team, we inevitable get to have the battle of “Ugghh, I don’t want to use a framework I want to code my way and only my way”.

    If this is your typical response to frameworks, I suggest you continue to read and let me enlighten you on why we live and die by our frameworks. (more…)

  • A Simple SEO Trick To Boost Your Rankings

    The following article is going to be short and sweet, but applying this technique will help you move up those all important rankings.

    The technique involves updating your <title> tag.  With a few simple changes, your ranking for your targetted keywords will begin to immediately climb (well not immediately, but next time Google crawls your web page). (more…)

  • CSS Tips – Margins in Internet Explorer

    This is the first article to follow-up on my why “Why Is Internet Explorer Better?“.

    Today’s article is going to discuss how Internet Explorer deals with margins.  To explain this weird and frustrating issue, I am going to build a photo gallery and break it down into several steps. (more…)

  • Why Is Internet Explorer Better?

    I’m guessing I probably got your attention with this one?  I’m also guessing that you cannot scroll down fast enough to the comments box and start typing a bunch of nasty messages to me.

    WAIT!  Before you do that, let me explain why. (more…)

  • Facebook Development and $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]

    If you are new to creating Facebook applications or even if you’re not.  When you go to use $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’] you might be in for a surprise when this _SERVER variable does not exist!

    Just recently I encountered this problem, when I thought about it for a few seconds it made sense why the variable wasn’t there.  Your server cannot properly track the history because every page request in your Facebook application occurs through a request from a Facebook server, not the user them self. (more…)