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Re: Recession? 10 Tips to Manage Your Recession Hit Staff

ashishnayyar911 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:35:47 -0000

Involving staff in such critical decision is very important to gain the confidence of others who might or might not be axed. Even if they are not cut down they will feel dejected and want to quit, this feeling can be suppressed by gaining confidence of the staff.

Re: Recession? 10 Tips to Manage Your Recession Hit Staff

Jonathan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:54:22 -0000

Excellent ideas here.

I agree with the need to involve staff.

One company I saw ran a 'dumbest things' campaign by pinpointing practices and processes in the business that were inefficient, illogical, silly or just plain dumb. Blogs were tracked to record ideas. The result was that 130 things were changed for the better.

Tips on Managing Staff

Re: Introduction of Delphi for PHP

pwned — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:27:47 -0000

Nice Read.

Re: Harness the power of Disqus comment system

craigs2 — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:09:44 -0000

Was a good read. I'll be back for more.

Re: Are you banned by Akismet for spaming?

Tim — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:56:13 -0000

I am also experiencing the "white screen" thing since some time. I never did any spamming and have no idea, why this is happening.
Thanks a lot for this article. I'll contact askimet.

Re: Harness the power of Disqus comment system

Detektiv — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:19:22 -0000

Disqus comment system saved my business. I use Disqus comment system often

Re: Popularity of Programming Languages: October 2008

Tim Bunce — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:52:10 -0000

The TIOBE methodology is flawed, doesn't support their claims, and is being manipulated by language communities (with TIOBE's approval). See http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/17/tiobe-index...

Re: Popularity of Programming Languages: October 2008

Tim Bunce — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:44:15 -0000

The TIOBE methodology is flawed, doesn't support their claims, and is being manipulated by language communities (with TIOBE's approval). See http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/17/tiobe-index...

Re: How to Improve Website Performance Using CSS Sprites

Where — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:45:32 -0000

where is there a sprites cheat sheet ?

:)

Re: 15 Firefox Extensions You Can’t Live Without

ashishnayyar911 — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:46:43 -0000

Thank you surfboards, i will see you lot in here.

Re: PHP vs Python: Analysis

mchrisneglia — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:16:33 -0000

I rewrote a dead simple script for spidering a large number of websites. with php, i used curl, with python I used httplib. It was my first python script, so take this with a grain of salt. Note also that the python script wasn't as sophisticated (ie, with curl you can make concurrent connections and tell it to follow redirects but in python you have to do this yourself with a recursive function or something similar, or use the twisted / some other framework). discounting those differences, I found that python was orders of magnitude easier, briefer to code, and got the job done faster than curl working concurrently (on windows/apache2, mind you) because curl and php has weird issues, even when running php as fastcgi

now the moral of this story is, that when you try to do anything interesting in php it craps out because of the quality of the libraries you are using. It is too easy to code something and then read somewhere that your app that uses a function like 'array_key_exists' is really slow and better to use isset. It's too many things put together into a franken-mess, the community is great but it's like herding cats. From what I've read and from my initial impresssion-and I'm too much of a noob to say with authority-that python's libraries are just better quality and more performant. Some of this comes from the principle of the language for there to be only one good way to do something.

Personally, I love php and will probably still continue to use it because I work with drupal and codeigniter, no way aroudn that. But I probably will be transitioning to python. Pydocs can't compete with php.net though, and that's probably why it hasn't taken over market share. If you could have web programmers who get onboard with python, they could leverage their skills to make real desktop apps without having to do something stupid prism, adobe air, google gears type browser-development enviroments.

Re: How to Improve Website Performance Using CSS Sprites

devshades — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:10:35 -0000

Here are my few cents on CSS Sprites:

1. Updating graphics is a pain specicially when you use Sprites and don't have all the original images.
2. If you already have a very good dedicated server then CSS Sprites may not be worth optimizing.
3. If you are using CSS Sprites you can using Vertical, Horizontal or Both. It depends on how you want to use your CSS.
4. if your image sprites are .PNG files with alpha channel, the transparency hacks for IE6 will break your css styles
5. CSS Sprite optimization works best if your designer understands it and use very carefully no wonder it will do wonders.

Thanks for the article.

Re: How to Improve Website Performance Using CSS Sprites

ashishnayyar911 — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:00:52 -0000

Many web developers have replaced image slicing for a much better technique known as CSS Sprites. This technique results in cleaner markup, fewer HTTP requests, smaller file sizes and saves bandwidth.

Re: Are you banned by Akismet for spaming?

BusbySEOTesting — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:46:47 -0000

certainly that akismet plugin is a sure pain in the neck

Re: Are you banned by Akismet for spaming?

the scene queen — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:44:10 -0000

I think it's pretty sad that Akismet is written this way. Don't ever tell them that you think it's a flaw in their software though; that's a good way to get flamed.

Re: 15 Firefox Extensions You Can’t Live Without

surfboards — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:25:35 -0000

The pleasure is all mine Ashish, just keep impressing us with quality blogging you do.

Dave

Re: 15 Firefox Extensions You Can’t Live Without

ashishnayyar911 — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:33:46 -0000

Thanks, how can we ignore seoquake which is perfect when you want to see the seo statistics of any website. I am gonna update the above list and include it.

Re: Harness the power of Disqus comment system

Mesotheliomapatient — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:17:22 -0000

Disqus, in my opinion is the future of commenting.

Re: Linux V/S Windows: Linux is Winning

kasib — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:05:45 -0000

Intranet Software

Re: Python Web Scrapper with BeautifulSoup

Workflow Management Software — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:18:48 -0000

use a Python library called BeautifulSoup which takes care of almost all of the work for you.

Re: 15 Firefox Extensions You Can’t Live Without

surfboards — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:07:28 -0000

One thing which you are missing here is the another helpful plug in called seoquake, believe me it's equally good as these 15.

Dave

Re: Even Twitter Is Not XSS Safe

ashishnayyar911 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:57:35 -0000

Thanks Jimmy for liking the article. Please share your experiences with any such XSS issues with any of your favorite sites.

Re: 7 Tips to Optimize your blog for SEO Success

seo sheffield — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:50:04 -0000

For me it is all about fresh relevant content...

Re: What a SEO Professional should know

Outsourcing Philippines — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:39:07 -0000

that is very very true, great post!

Re: Even Twitter Is Not XSS Safe

Jimmy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:49:16 -0000

Nice post on twitter.I had found very few post oon twitter which are such informational.
Thanks for sharing such informational post with us.
Thanks