With more requirement of responsive websites it a basic requirement to detect device and browser of user accessing website. Here is an opensource class in PHP to detect device as well OS/browser and other features including tablets.
Plugins of this class are also available for WordPress, Joomla, Magento.
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Ever tried to think on this? Well most of us haven’t. We use it, love it, need it to do most of our work today but know this and never gave it a thought. : |
ICANN has released a “living” graphic aimed to provide a high-level view of how the internet is run attuned for those less familiar with the inner workings of the internet infrastructure ecosystem. Quoting from the document:
An impressive web app is a combo of great functionality and beautiful design. Here is a complete set of Facebook screens in PSD format to make help you make your page impressive for users. Thanks to Surgeworks !!
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First, let me thanks to my colleague Rajnish for this post.
When a user registers in the database, there is one field status and we manually set it Active(By Default).
When the user reaches his ExpiryDate, we have to set Status field from Active to Deactive by Admin Panel.
We can achieve this in an easy way by simply using Computed Column.
What is Computed Column ?
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It is quite important to understand difference between URL prefixed with www and without www.
There seems to be not much difference in those as both represent same URL but this can be pain while coding some if its a bad day. It also make a difference in case of SEO and better to have uniformity in all URLs of website.
If you have adedicated server with IIS, its quite easy to force website to have each URL prefixed with www but in case of shared hosting you may be required to make some addition in code to acheive this. Here is a code snippet to force URL to prefix www in asp.net:
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Why do companies update or upgrade their systems and equipment?
One reason is to be perceived by their clients as up-to-date and relevant with current technology. Other times the motivation is to increase productivity and profitability; or to cut expense and streamline operations. Whatever the reasons, the temptation often is to decrease project expense by utilizing internal resources or hiring hourly contractors to research the various manufacturers’ products.
If you are tech savvy in a company looking for new ways to increase profitability, productivity or customer retention with technology, you may have experienced something like the story below:
The Production Manager of a major regional newspaper runs his fingers through his hair in frustration. Looking at his desktop, he realizes that, once again, he is going to be working through lunch and after hours to do his regular job. Yet again, he turns his attention back to the white pages sent by the person hired to research the new IT systems being installed next year. Composing several questions for the sake of clarification, he embarks on an email dialogue knowing that this is only the beginning of a large, quickly overwhelming task.
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Recently I had a requirement to install SSL certificate on Shared server. Although I worked with SSL installation on IIS over dedicated servers couple of time but this was a bit different experience to install it on shared hosting and that too using cPanel.
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Recently in one of project I faced a requirement to display image in a developed paint tool of fixed dimensions canvas. It sounds fine as long as two points are not considered:
1. Image size can be anything because it is to be uploaded by user
2. Image should not crop and just fit in canvas without any scroll
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Ever faced a situation when your team member is on leave and you have to manage communication with your clients on Skype as well address support requests on his Skype? And you hate it when not being able to open second instance of it.
Well multitasking is good but a pain when need to be done at different places or desk making it hard. But you can open another instance of Skype too using Command prompt.
Here is magic command to make it easy to open and use multiple Skype ids on same laptop at same time.
[code]”C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe” /secondary[/code]
Hope this helps !!
Forgot your password of Plesk Panel?
No worries, if you have remote access to server it is quite easy to view your password using follow below steps:
1. Open command prompt
2. Enter: ‘%plesk_dir%\bin\admin.exe –show-password’