Archive for the “how-to” category

Rounded thumb image with CSS 3

by admin on July 17, 2012

In modern Mobile apps, RIA or fancy websites like to display thumb images with a little rounded corners. We can do it on web with very little effort using a little CSS3 technique. Just 3 simple 3 steps: Instead of (…)

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Let's do with Drupal – Simplified Admin Panel

by admin on December 11, 2010

As you (if you’v at least installed and explored Drupal) know, Drupal‘s Admin panel is not comfortable for clients. It’s mostly developer centric and not similar to other common content managing panels. But, sometimes clients may need to manage some (…)

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Setting up Database testing with Kohana UnitTest module

by admin on October 11, 2010

Kohana Unittest module has made testing in Kohana v3 easy and fun. Lysender wrote a cool, straight forward post about how to set it up and running. I’ll just talk here about how I have set up database testing with (…)

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Freelancing; an alternate career

by admin on October 4, 2010

Yesterday, I’ve talked about “Freelancing; an alternate career” at a seminar on “BUILDING TECH CAREER” at DUET, Gazipur, Dhaka. Here is the slide. This seminar was arranged by PHPXperts, the leading PHP community of Bangladesh Freelancing; an alternate career View (…)

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Extending Zend Form Element to create customized Phone number field

by admin on August 25, 2010

It’s Zend_Form_Element_Phone, a customized Zend Form Element for Phone Number. This will render 3 text fields for parts of phone number – country code, operator code and subscriber number. The values of these three fields jointly will be considered as the value. Optionally, a separator can be used between these fields. This separator can be ignored from/included in value

Extjs quick start guide for jQuery Developers

by admin on April 5, 2009

I’ve seen many people (including myself) trying out the power of jQuery for once and then getting stuck with it. Why not? It’s one of the coolest and smartest JavaScript library out there. However, I have broken out from the (…)

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Advanced bootstrapping : Configure your Zend Framework application for multiple host

by admin on February 3, 2009

This tutorial is intended to explain a way of bootstrapping Zend Framework based MVC application for multiple host/domains. Before starting, let me explain a bit about the situation when it’s needed. A web application goes through some stages when growing (…)

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Front-end optimization with PHP Speedy – increase Yslow grade in 10 minutes!

by admin on December 26, 2008

Before I move into PHP Speedy, a small background won’t hurt much! Until a few days back, whenever I hear the word optimization, my brain quickly shows a few keywords in my mental screen: “query optimization, page caching, opcode, etc”. (…)

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PunBB modification – Implementing iconized categories for forum topics

by admin on November 13, 2008

PunBB is one of the fastest and minimal forum softwares powered by PHP. PunBB says about itself: PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Its primary goals are to (…)

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Image manipulation in Zend Framework using PHP Thumbnailer Class v2.0

by admin on September 12, 2008

In the huge set of library, Zend Framework have no options for manipulating image. There is a proposal for Zend_Image which aimed to provides easier image manipulation using GD. But the proposal was not considered. Bill Karwin of ZF said, (…)

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