Shorthand if/else for PHP

Shorthand if/else for PHP

There is a special if/else functionality available that not many programmers know how to utilize that I now want to share with you. This function is called a Ternary operation. The ternary operation takes 3 arguments, The first which is the conditional expression, the...
How to send mail with PHP

How to send mail with PHP

Sometimes you want to send mail from your php code, maybe you want to send a mail to yourself on an event or send a message to your users or subscribers, don’t fear this is not a hard task to accomplish, and as usual in programming, there is many paths to the...
Flash support for Android is history

Flash support for Android is history

Adobe have been under heavy preassure from HTML5 lately, now they (finally) lost the war. I say finally because I have never liked the non-proprietary idea of Flash.   The complete internet experience In 2007 Adobe were active marketing Flash for mobile, the only...
Optimizing your page speed for visitors and SEO

Optimizing your page speed for visitors and SEO

Ancient history Nowadays many web developers around the world underestimate the impact page size has on their sites performance. Back in the days before broadband was considered a standard, people was sitting on slow internet connection with their modems. Back then...
Twitter is down: Are we under attack?!

Twitter is down: Are we under attack?!

The first major thing an invading country should do is to take down twitter to disrupt communication and spread panic amongst the population. This is common knowledge. Today I tried logging in to twitter, but I could not connect to the server, all other webpages...
WordPress Shortcodes

WordPress Shortcodes

WordPress has a functionality called shortcodes which gives you the ability to insert generated elements into your posts just by typing in a shortcode in the text. All you need to do to make this work is to define a function in your theme’s functions.php file,...