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Turn on Error Reporting
It’s PHP 101, yet so many developers fail to remember it. Always enable the display of errors on your development server, disable them on the live server. Showing all errors will help you find those stubborn programming mistakes quickly. Set these options in your php.ini file.
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Modular Sidebar in WordPress
Like all good developers, I go back and look at past code to see what I could have improved and how I can apply the new knowledge to a current project.Both of the projects in question had sidebars with sections that are shared throughout the site. However, not all sections are being displayed at once.…
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CodeIgniter’s alternator() function

It’s surprising to me how often I find little functions for tedious tasks, that CodeIgniter already has built in. One of these functions is the alternator() function in the String Helper.
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Image Thumbnail Creation & Caching With CodeIgniter
How you handle the saving and display of images is very important while planning your web app. Questions you would ask yourself include: How should images be stored? What will the standard naming conventions be? How will thumbnails be created? In this article, I will be focusing on how I decided the way thumbnails would…
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Simple Login Form With CodeIgniter
Notice: This tutorial is dated. It is important you take care how you store and check a user’s password, they should always be stored with one-way encryption. Read more about Password Hashing. One of the most basic but, most important part of a web application is the login form. The login form is the first stage of…
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Framework of Choice: CodeIgniter
As a developer, I am always looking for ways to increase the quality of my work and the speed at which I complete a project. One of the ways I do this is by utilizing a framework. The framework I choose is CodeIgniter.
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WordPress ‘Fetch Feed’ Plugin
‘Fetch Feed’ is a RSS retrieval and caching plugin for WordPress. You can use it to parse any RSS feed for displaying on your site. I created it while developing this new theme and thought other users would find it useful. I used it for the Delicious Bookmarks list on the sidebar and for the…
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Site Launched!
Hey everyone! My name is JR Tashjian and I am a Web Developer living and working in New York. I started this blog because I wanted to write about what I do and what I learn as well as educate any readers wanting to learn more about Web Development. I will be focusing on the…