Regular expression can be used to identify strings of text. They are written in a formal language that looks hard to understand on first glance but follows strict rules. Most users associated regular expressions with programming languages and while this is surely a dominant area regular expressions are supported in text editors and other tools. [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 9th, 2009
- Comments: 4
Scriptastique web development roundup
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 [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 4th, 2009
- Comments: 2
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 hate Hello World examples, [...]
Ghacks Web Development PDF Article Compilation January 09
The following article contains all web development articles that have been published in January 09. The articles are provided in PDF format to make them readable on most operating systems and devices. We are providing article compilations to give you the chance to read the articles offline and keep them as reference without having to [...]
StackOverflow.com
Even though I’m not a programmer myself I’ve always enjoyed reading Coding Horror.
Okay, partly because it’s one of FeedDemon’s default feeds but also largely because Jeff Atwood just writes interesting stuff that anyone can understand, programmer or not.
His blog however is really nothing more then a side interest, his latest project which has been occupying [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jun 14th, 2008
- Comments: 4
An easy way to learn web design
I spent a little time today on a Wordpress theme for one of my clients. He asked me to copy his webpage design and turn it into a Wordpress blog. This took me about a fifth of the time it takes to design a blog on my own, and the coding was much smoother and [...]
Get a Freelancer
Get a Freelancer is a website that brings together webmasters and freelancers. I have been using the service twice in the last two months and liked it that much that I thought a review would be nice to spread the word. Webmasters can post -mostly – IT related projects on Get a Freelancer and freelancers [...]

