Posts Tagged ‘code’
Building a Successful Web Application: Clean Code and Documentation
October 30th, 2006
I can’t stress enough the importance of clean code. It may take more time initially to carefully plan a web architecture, document, and comment code, but it’s always worth the initial planning in order to save a huge headache later. I don’t know how many projects that I have acquired that were so poorly coded that I had to start the project from scratch to work on it. Now I’m definitely not the best coder in the world, but I like to use best practices if I or someone else needs to come back to the project later for updates or changes.
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CSS Optimization: Make Your Sites Load Faster For Free
August 23rd, 2006
Blogging Pro had an article last week regarding optimizing CSS files in order to achieve a faster page load. I know a lot of the time removing whitespace can kill a lot of the file size. Of course it makes it difficult to edit later but for production use there are several programs out there to reduce whitespace for you making a smaller file size.
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Google Web Services With PHP
August 23rd, 2006
PHP Hacks has a tutorial using the PEAR SOAP module of PHP to pull data for use on your site. There are many other ways of doing similar things a lot of which deal with RSS feeds since they have become so popular, but this tutorial does a pretty good job of explaining how to use SOAP with Google’s web services.
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10 Tips on Writing Reusable Code
June 26th, 2006
There was a blog post on Blogger giving 10 tips for writing reusable code. For the most part I think that these tips can be applied to almost any coding language. If course some things might need to be varied.
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