FarmSoft Studios Graphic Design & Web Design

Wow. That is all I can say. This is the most impressive web application that I have ever laid eyes on.

Check it out here: http://280slides.com

http://webkit.org/blog/197/web-inspector-redesign/

Check out the latest builds of the WebKit project for a cool new way of debugging your HTML/CSS/JavaScript woes.

Do you need to quickly add a specific user with access to only a certain table? Issue this command as a root or admin user:

GRANT ALL ON testdb.* TO 'testuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pass1';

You can also limit user’s privileges to specific ip addresses or domains in case you need to access your databases from a different host.

GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'testuser'@'remote.farmsoftstudios.com' IDENTIFIED BY 'pass1';

If you like the alternating table backgrounds that are in applications like iTunes, and want them in your web application, there is a simple way to do so in PHP:

<table>
 <tr class="title">
  <td></td>
 </tr>
<?php
$i=0;
foreach($row as $r){
   if($i&0){$alt=' class="even"';}else{$alt='';}
   echo "<tr".$alt.">";
   //other table stuff in here
   $i++;
   echo "</tr>";
}
?>
</table>


These days, I consider the failure to use version control a professional malpractice. I’m also a zealot when it comes to deleting dead code. In fact, I derive quite a bit of enjoyment out of deleting existing code. Unused code, old code, mockups, things that were started and never finished, things that someone thought they needed and never did—I’m delighted to delete them all.

Quoting from the latest PHP|Architect (August 2008) article, I found Jeff Moore’s writing insightful as well as helpful.  A strong contender for clean code, he suggests deleting stranded, dead, or depreciated codeblocks.  As far as his suggestion for version control, I would completely agree.  I maintained/wrote an entire project without version control (along with two other developers), and I sincerely hope that I never have to do that again.  It was a total disaster.  FTP overwrites, deleted code that had dependancies, and no way to roll back equalled extreme project management headaches.

My Advice: Use Version Control. Period.