Despite being a technology enthusiast, I am also a very late adopter when it comes to purchasing new electronics. Being a university student, I tend to think twice before dropping hundreds of dollars on the latest offerings from manufacturers such as Dell and Apple. Additionally, my nature compels me to get the most use out of my electronics before replacing them with later and greater models. As a result, one of my most used machines to this day is an old Pentium 4 2.93GHz desktop with a PCI Nvidia 8400gs GPU. Coexisting in a world with quad core central processors and 3,200 stream processing GPUs, the machine still serves me well as a day to day internet surfing and programming center.
Make it easier for your readers to share the URL of your posts by integrating the TinyURL service into your blog. A demonstration of the final product can be seen by scrolling to the bottom of this page. In order to follow this tutorial successfully, access to PHP will be needed. Additionally, we will be using the TinyURL API so make sure your content follows their Terms of Service agreement. The guide below is made for Self-hosted WordPress blogs. However, the code is simple enough to be modified and used on any other platform.
Are you currently in the process of designing a website? If you are anything like myself, chances are high that you currently have an installation of almost every browser in existence on your computer. Optimizing websites to display properly across several browsers can be a daunting task, especially if you wish to test compatibility with older generation browsers such as the notorious Internet Explorer 6 (I can’t tell you how much I hate IE6. If you are currently using it, please upgrade). The problem lies with the rendering techniques used by each browser and results in slight variations of the outputted page. Although most recent browsers obey open web standards, Microsoft’s older generation Internet Explorer products have been notorious for creating numerous problems that can only be fixed via a css stylesheet swap. The purpose of this article is to showcase some products I use to make cross-browser testing relatively simple.
