Archive for 'Programming'

Some lesser-know truths about programming

This is a post from David Veksler’s blog, which I’m copy­ing here word for word because I think it’s worth spread­ing. A pro­gram­mer spends about 10  –  20% of his time writ­ing code, and most pro­gram­mers write about 10  –  12 lines of code per day that goes into the final prod­uct, regard­less of their skill level. Good pro­gram­mers spend […]

CSS Efficiency

Con­sid­er­ing how much CSS I write on a daily basis, I never won­dered what is the fastest way to ren­der the CSS I pro­duce, and what are the costs in CPU and load time. Chris Coyier did a nice research explain­ing what are the most fast and effi­cient selec­tors in CSS,  and I’ll sum­ma­rize his find­ings here. Right to Left  —  Browsers read you selectors […]

Easily integrate Dropbox in your PHP application

An inter­est­ing project started less than a week ago, allows any­one to eas­ily inte­grate Drop­box into their PHP appli­ca­tion. This is an inter­est­ing tool as now any­one who writes PHP appli­ca­tions, can eas­ily pig­gy­back on Drop­box to store data across plat­forms, users, and com­put­ers. The usage is pretty sim­ple, here are a few exam­ples: Fetching […]

HTML5 presentation

An Excel­lent HTML5 pre­sen­ta­tion explain­ing the new fea­tures in HTML5, CSS3 and the new Javascript APIs. HTML5 presentation.