May 17th, 2010 by Eric
As web developers we are familiar with the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle of programming. Cut & paste is the bane of object-oriented programmers, and we will frequently hear the phrase “Don’t reinvent the wheel”. However, I typically find myself and other colleagues in the world of PHP doing just that. The plethora of actively [...]
May 1st, 2010 by Eric
Yesterday I received a message in my inbox that I had not seen in quite some time:
“New Release of PhpED. 5.9.5 is here”
Over my 2+ years as a PhpED Professional subscriber, I like most became accustomed to regular updates. Be they bugfixes, features, or even just browser and debugger updates – I could be pretty [...]
February 1st, 2009 by Eric
After last week’s post highlighting the YSlow Firefox extension, I’ve decided to follow up on the topic of best practices with a brief post on the Minify Library. The Library was discovered when one of my coworkers was tasked with reducing the http requests of our various sites. Minify takes cares of that, and much [...]
January 24th, 2009 by Eric
As I was working on editing the new theme for my blog, I downloaded the Firebug developer’s toolkit to inspect an HTML element on my screen. After installing Firebug I got a series of other Add-on recommendations, most of which were tools that embedded into the Firebug interface. Once such tool was called YSlow.