Basically I hate designing themes. I usually end up spending days and days tweaking the CSS to get the columns floating over to the correct place and only find it doesn’t work on a different browser (i.e. IE). The process starts over again until I get it working for all browsers.
Like I said, it takes [...]
Unlike me, Amit the Super Affiliate, probably should stick to PPC traffic cause he can’t pass a simple SEO Cartoon Quiz. Not that I’m a professed SEO expert, I’ve found that if you simply “follow the SEO recipe“, your pages will rank higher in the SERPS. After all, W3.org is the governing organization which [...]
Basic Stuff: The Model-View-Controller Architecture has three components used to partition and separate the processing from the display or GUI: The Model, View and Controller.
Basically, the inputs are mapped to the Controller and the outputs are mapped to the View. The Model maintains the persistent state of the Controller. Some MVC Architecture Diagrams [...]
Leveraging existing technology is always a difficult task. It’s more of a personal challenge to get over the mindset that you can do it better. Perhaps you can, but do you have the time and budget to accomplish the daunting task of building a component that someone already has built for you?
There’s [...]
Not Invented Here is a continuing series of articles to help you overcome the hurdles of reusing and leverage existing technology for rapid development. The decision to develop any product in-house takes considerable amount of effort and development time. Reusing components and integrating them with your product reduces the time to delivery and in [...]
“Not Invented Here” (NIH). This is one of the biggest hurdles developers have to overcome when reusing components, modules, functions or snippets in the production software. I’ve run across it my entire development career — developers simply do not like to use software that they don’t write and own — and of course, I’m [...]
It’s been a busy evening trying to finalize the design for MustFindit. If you’re a software developer, you know that nothing is final and there’s always fiddling to get that extra bit of performance out of your creation.
I’m well past the MustFindit alpha launch date of June 15, 2007 but with these latest changes, things [...]