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How to be a better programmer - Part 1 - nick halstead

I thought I would re-start my blogging (apologies for the major lapse!) endeavors by covering how to become a better programmer. This will be split into a number of parts as there is a lot to cover! The first part is me feelings about ‘How to be open’ - this covers a range of things […]

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Linkbait Vs. Branding: Which Is A Better Strategy?

Linkbait Vs. Branding: Which Is A Better Strategy?Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Saturday, 17 of November , 2007 at 12:12 pm
Aaron Wall recently wrote a great post on linkbait and suggests that it’s not as valuable as it once was. He recommends, instead, that modern marketers build a brand. It’s slower, but more reliable, he […]

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Developer Tutorials Blog: 5 Ways to be a Better PHP Developer

New on the Developer Tutorials blog today is this post offering up a few ideas (five of them) on how they think you can become a better programmer.

In this post, I’ll outline five ways to be a better developer, improve your productivity, write less code and achieve more with your web applications.There’s always more to […]

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Website Optimizer: A Fabulous Tool For Better PPC

Website Optimizer: A Fabulous Tool For Better PPCWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Sunday, 4 of November , 2007 at 9:09 am
One of the best tools for webmasters is Google’s Website Optimizer. As a part of Google AdWords technology, it has been an essential component to successful PPC campaigns since its beginning. But it doesn’t necessarily […]

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Gene Marks Is Back And Better Than Ever

Gene Marks Is Back And Better Than EverWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, 14 of January , 2008 at 7:55 am
Gene Marks wrote an article in BusinessWeek that drew the ire of every SEO and Internet marketer in the business. All you had to do was Google his name and you’d see the backlash. Even […]

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Makeshift Anchor Text… Link Title Attribute vs Image Alt Tags: Which is Better?

One of the reasons I was so motivated to change the tagline of this site recently was because the new site design contained the site’s logo as a background image. The logo link was a regular static link, but it had no anchor text, only a link title to describe the link. If you do […]

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Andreas Gohr’s Blog: Understanding PHP code better with Xdebug

Andreas Gohr has a new blog post today that talks about a way to really get to know your code better - use XDebug to see it from the inside out.

Xdebug is a PHP extension which helps you to understand, debug and profile PHP. It can help you to find bottlenecks or give you an […]

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Bryan’s Blog: 5 (More) Ways to be a Better PHP Developer

Following up on this article from Akash Mehta, Bryan has posted five more suggestions he has to help make you a better PHP developer.

I thought all of Akash’s suggestions were good but a little broad and seemed to involve a lot of reading. And while any budding developer will jump at the chance to expand […]

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CakePHP taking it apart, and the better written world of sinners.. - Alan Knowles

Yeah, at one end we have our happy little hackers trying to make a quick CMS by throwing together a few includes and hiding functions everywhere in their wonderful directory structure, at the other we have those glorious frameworks.

So If you enjoy my rather questionable grammar, and High Horse views, here’s the dig through CakePHP.
Dissent […]

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Ask Apache Blog: A better way to use PDF files online

From the Ask Apache blog, there’s a quick tip that makes it simple to give your site’s visitors the option to either download or view a PDF file no matter what their browser default is.

One of the most annoying things on the Internet for me is when I click on a link to an Adobe […]

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