As you all know, we started a web development section here on gHacks. After asking for your opinion and talking about it with Martin, we decided to keep writing 1-2 posts a week here, but move most of the material into a new site called Scriptastique. Right now we only have the blog, but tutorial [...]
Check your sites delicious bookmark counts automatically
While looking for something completely different I found a handy little tool called Bookmarked Reporter which can parse your site (or use an XML sitemap) and create a report of the delicious bookmark count for all the sub pages. This is great for blogs with many posts, it makes everything easier to track. Once you [...]
How do you use your Firefox?
Since I always go through a lot of ‘phases’ in the way I use software, I am really interested to know how you guys use your browsers. Basically in the beginning I knew nothing of addons and such, so I just used it as is (this ws when tabbed browsing came in). Once addons were [...]
Passing variables using in the URL
If you’ve seen some WordPress blogs or online stores you’ve probably seen url-s in the form of http://somepage.com/product.php?id=4. These sites pass variables to scripts using the url. The script will scan the url for these and you can use them in a database query for example. This is the technology that allows WordPress templates to [...]
Google Calendar Offline released
While taking a look at my calendar today I noticed that Google has rolled out their offline feture for Google Calendar, and after some searching I found that this is indeed the case for everyone. Since we have become so reliant on the web for everything this should come in handy for times when your [...]
Adsense ads available for parked domains
Google is introducing a lot of developments for Adsense, with font selection implemented not long ago, now comes a new, much anticipated feature, Adsense for parked domains. Many people own lots of domains which they keep around to sell at a higher price, or they simply haven’t gotten around to developing it, and as such, [...]
How echo works in PHP
The most basic command, and probably the first you’ll learn when taking a look at PHP is “echo”. The first example in many books and online tutorials is the following. Create a file, give it an extension of “.php”, upload it to your server, and edit it like so: <?php echo ‘Hello World’; ?> I [...]
Set a Cooktimer on your laptop
As someone who spends most of the day in front of his laptop I frequently forget things like “Wake me in an hour please”, or “Can you tell me to come out of the bath in 20 minutes?”. Not that I forget, just if I’m enjoying my work time flies by. Cooktimer is a small [...]
Using javascript to hide and unhide elements dynamically
My favorite aspect of javascript is that it enables you to add great features to your site like showing/hiding parts of it when a user clicks a link without reloading, get some data from a database and displaying it in a new div, again without reloading. In fact, it would be possible (although not very [...]