One of the challenges web designers face is to get various web browsers render their web pages in a consistent manner. The reason is every browser assigns slightly different default styles to certain page elements. A simple approach to handle this cross-browser inconsistency is to overwrite browsers’ default styles. This technique is known as resetting […]
Earlier this week WordPress 2.9.1 was released to fix some minor bugs found in release 2.9. It also fixes the annoying issue some bloggers faced with posts scheduling and pingbacks. It is always a good idea to keep your WordPress installation (and all plugins) uptodate, so I would strongly encourage you to upgrade to 2.9.1 […]
While you are celebrating the arrival of the new year, don’t forget to update the year on the copyright notice on your blog. The simplest way is to edit the file and replace 2009 with 2010, but a better solution would be to replace the year in your copyright declaration with following line of PHP […]
One of earliest third party tools that I started using for Twitter is TwitterFeed. This service automatically tweets your new blog posts for you. I have been using TwitterFeed for almost two years and I wrote about this service when I started using this. I am quite satisfied with this service but I am switching […]
One of the widely used WordPress is the More tag. This tag is used split a post so that only a portion of the post is displayed on the front page. When WordPress sees More tag, it inserts a link to next line of the post. By default the text of the link is “Read […]
If you have been blogging regularly for more than few months, chances are you have quite a few posts on your blog. That is a good thing. As a blogger you are supposed to blog regularly to provide useful and relevant information to your blog readers. But unless you dictate how your homepage is displayed […]
Today, I will share a very basic Java program that converts an ArrayList to an array. For most Java developers this is a routine task, but many newcomers to Java have asked me this question of how to convert an array to ArrayList. Here is the example code.
Amazon.com being the largest online retailer offers a variety of merchandise. Because of their huge selection of products it is no surprise that Amazon affiliate program is so popular among bloggers. With an astonishing number of products available through Amazon.com it is quite likely that every blogger will find a related product to link in […]