Programming
Converting IP address to originating country
You might have noticed on several websites that it tells you the country you’re browsing from. How in the world do they do that?
Its actually quite simple. Based on your IP address, one can get a lot of information related to the ISP, and the country you’re connecting from. In fact, some databases you use, [...]
Free eBook: The Art and Science of CSS
The Art and Science of CSS is a book on CSS full of useful examples. The book is published by O’Rielly Media.
This book costs about $40 on Amazon, but you can have a PDF eBook version for free by just following @sitepointdotcom on Twitter.
The file is about 24MB in size (ZIP).
30+ Essential Firefox plugins for Web Developers
There are numerous plugins available for Firefox. This post covers a few that might be useful for web developers.
Web Developer
Adds a toolbar with tools to analyze CSS and live edit CSS amongst a host of other features. This is a must have for all web developers.
GreaseMonkey
Greasemonkey scripts enable you to customize any aspect of your [...]
PHP Frameworks: Get MVC (and more) to work for you
PHP is a widely used general purpose scripting language that is well suited for web development.
There are several frameworks that have been developed for PHP, to aid you in your application development. Several frameworks like CakePHP and CodeIgniter provide a framework around the popular MVC architecture.
An example of a PHP application developed using CodeIgniter is [...]
Subversion: Free commercial grade version control system
Subversion (SVN) is a version control system initiated in 2000 by CollabNet Inc. Many believe it to be a successor to the very popular CVS system. But, SVN incorporates features and functionality far beyond what CVS offered.
Subversion is well-known in the open source community and is used on many open source projects, including Apache Software [...]
Rails Rumble 2008: What does 48hrs get you?
Rails Rumble 2008 got together some extremely talented developers and web designers, and gave them 48 hours to build something great. Some of the applications developed are really cool.
The 48hr window to develop the applications are done. But Voting is still open. If you haven’t voted it, go ahead and vote for your favourite application. [...]
