Free Developer Resources

That’s right, I am giving away one of my secrets! I about to tell you where to get free stock resources for your next project. I know the importance of these resources and the impact that they can have on a web designer, graphic designer, bloggers or even photographers. I am also fully aware [...]

January 4th, 2010 by Allen Sanford 

jQuery in WordPress (The Right Way)

There is the right way and the wrong way to include jQuery on a Wordpress page or plugin. The wrong way would be to just download jQuery, put it somewhere on your server and then make a link to it from your header.php file in the section, but like I said it is the [...]

October 12th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

PHP and MySQL Dates – A guide to ease the pain!

This is one of those issues that seems to pop up a lot especially with programmers new to PHP and MySQL.  Seems that a lot of the people get hung up when trying to find the best way  (or any way for that matter) to manage dates in a MySQL database and then use them [...]

July 31st, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

PHP – A Template Class with Simple Parser

It is actually very easy to create a Template system in PHP. Just about every CMS system out there uses some sort of template system. There will come a time that every developer, for one reason or another will need to create their own template system. What I have decided to do is create a [...]

June 18th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

PHP – Manipulating Files

Now I know there are a hundred and one tutorials on how to manipulate files with PHP, but I have to write this tutorial for no other reason than to practice writing. You see I aspire to perhaps write a book or two about programming on the web and well, I am going to need [...]

June 16th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

PHP – Stack and Queue

I have been ask on more than one occasion by beginners in PHP, especially those fresh out of college or those still in college, how would I do a stack and queue structure in PHP. Well the truth is that PHP has built in functions to manipulate arrays as though the were either a Stack [...]

June 16th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

PHP – Simulating Two Handed Card Shuffle

I decided that I would write a tutorial on how to simulate a two handed card shuffle on a deck of cards. Yesterday I wrote this in JavaScript here, today I am porting this to PHP. Most of us know what a two handed card shuffle is, and most of use this method to shuffle [...]

June 15th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

JavaScript – Simulating Two Handed Card Shuffle

I decided that I would write a tutorial on how to simulate a two handed card shuffle on a deck of cards. Most of us know what a two handed card shuffle is, and most of use this method to shuffle cards. To explain for those of you still not sure what a to handed [...]

June 14th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

JavaScript – In The Beginning, Hello World!

In the beginning, well as far as Web development is concerned, there was HTML and Web development was a simple static collection of HTML pages which was referred to as a Web Page. Web development was simple , and there was not a whole lot to learn. As the Web, or WWW, or Internet, [...]

June 13th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

The Basics of Working With PHP Arrays

An array in PHP is simply a variable that is used to store data. Most of the time this data has some sort of common denominator. You will see a lot of code storing things like table row data in arrays. Using arrays also allows you do do some neat things that would be other [...]

June 4th, 2009 by Allen Sanford