The guys over at Donation Coder are running a regular year’s end event that is called NANY. NANY stands for New Apps for the New Year (not Not Another New Years event). It is a coding challenge for everyone to produce a fine piece of software in December to release it before December 31. The [...]

Categories: Software

There are several programming languages that to-be programmers (or current programmers) can choose from. For first-time programmers, choosing a programming language can be difficult. There are many programming languages that are dying out, just aren’t popular, or are just generally hard to learn. It would be a shame for any first-time programmer to purchase books [...]

Categories: Web Development

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. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Web Development

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 [...]

Categories: Web Development

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 [...]

Categories: Compilations, Web Development

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Categories: Knowledge, The Web

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 [...]

Categories: The Web