In case you are wondering what is pagination? It’s mechanism to break large quantity of data/text into pages for better usability and accessibility. For instance think you are searching for “Free blog tools” on Google, which will return around 35,500,000 results and if Goggle show you all the results in one single page-just guess how you will react? But they don’t, instead they break the results into several pages and you notice a numbered navigation link (ref: Fig. 1a) bellow each page for better navigation. Not only Google or other search engines but as well many top class web sites …

Web hosting service isn’t something you can randomly pick, especially when your business hanging on the balance. There is free hosting as well as commercial hosting. What are some of the things you should look for when choosing a web host (I am sure dozens of factors available)? The factors for choosing a free web host and a commercial web hosting solution are slightly different although they do overlap. Choosing a host is an important decision. It’s wise to have a long relationship with whatever host you choose, in terms of money as well as hectic moving process. To …

These are very easy to do stuffs, nothing complex yet in time you will find it useful. Most no-tech blogger intend to do everything through plug-ins, but why install dozens of plug-in while you can get away with just adding few tweaks? So here are five simple tweaks that will make your WP life a lot comfortable.

Denying access to non-referrer request/Spam-bot request via .htaccess

This is simple and straight forward way to deal your referrer spam. Well off course considering your server is …

ASP.NET powered a significant portion of web, especially high-end corporate and industrial sites. Just to jiggle your memory-ASP.NET is a web application framework developed by Microsoft that programmers can use to build dynamic web sites, web applications and XML web services. It is part of Microsoft’s .NET platform and is the heir to Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime, meaning programmers can write ASP.NET code using any Microsoft .NET language (C#, Visual Basic .NET, J#, F#, IronPhython, IronRuby, windows power shell and C++/CLI). To understand ASP.NET first and most of all …

Most of the time we all talk about increasing readership, this time why not we will go for performance enhancement. Few days ago one of my subscriber expressed that, he experienced sluggishness on the back end while using WordPress as a CMS with high number of pages. He isn’t the only person who came across this problem, a lot of WP users experience related problem generally. Question is whether these problems resides in the core of WP or occasionally forced by some other issues? Actually there is no simple answer for that, any CMS whether Drupal or Wordpress can experience same issues caused by numerous reasons without anything to do with the core itself. I will keep the focus of the discussion on the WordPress (self hosted) related issues to narrow it down. Why not we turn the spotlight on the fundamental reasons first, so that it would be easier to eliminate them? Your WP (WordPress) powered site may experience sluggishness for- MySQL server or connection issues. PHP Memory Limit. Apache log rotator problem (for Apache server). Broken/Degraded PHP code in template/theme files. Excessive plugin uses/ use of plugin(s) with broken codes. Some particular third party widgets/ JavaScript codes. WordPress Dashboard’s display of RSS feeds Pingback attempts when posting There are many other reasons which might trigger sluggishness, but one way or another related to above mentioned causes. Now that we know what makes our WP site’s slow down (Back end or front end), let’s turn our focus on how to avoid these.

In this series of Firefox add-on we will concentrate on the add-ons that give your browser extended capabilities and save you from installing third party software to perform the same task. This type of not only save your disk space but bring extra features right at your finger tip. Needless to mention, this increase your multitasking capability, so equally valuable to9 s6tudents and professionals. BetterGmail Yep it’s true not everyone use Gmail, but this also true that it’s a growing email service on …

ActionScript is a scripting language (Developed by Macromedia,now owned by Adobe ) based on ECMAScript (Also referred as JavaScript or Jscript), used primarily for the development of websites and software using the Adobe Flash Player platform. The latest ActionScript 3.0 introduced last June (2006) with Adobe Flex 2.0 and Flash player 9.0. This ActionScript is completely different than any of its predecessor since it uses an entirely different virtual machine. ActionScript 3.0 provides significant enhancement in performance, as well as more robust programming model that lends itself to complex Rich Internet Application development. You can say that’s the reason Flex is so kick ass RIA builder. How ActionScript work? The way ActionScript work is very simple like any other scripting you have known. Generally ActionScript is executed by the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM), which is part of Flash Player. ActionScript code is typically compiled into bytecode format by a compiler, such Flex Builder, or that is available in the Flex SDK and the Flex Data Services. The bytecode is embedded in SWF files, which are executed by the Flash Player, the run-time environment. Pretty simple and straight forward isn’t it? Why ActionScript 3.0? As you already know since Flex 2, all flex version use ActionScript 3.0, but what are the advantages of this? This goes beyond the scripting capabilities of previous versions of ActionScript. It is designed to facilitate the creation of highly complex applications (RIAs) with large data sets and object-oriented, reusable code bases. While ActionScript 3.0 is not required for content that runs in Adobe Flash Player 9, it assists to performance improvements that are only available with the AVM2, the new virtual machine. ActionScript 3.0 code can execute up to ten times faster than legacy ActionScript code. You must know Flash Player 9 still do support the older version of ActionScript Virtual Machine, AVM1 for backward compatibility with existing and legacy content. Apart from the above mentioned advantages ActionScript also poses features like- ECMAScript for XML, native support for regular expressions, a method closure for better event handling, sealed classes for improved memory usage and run-time exception for handle errors robustly. Usage There are two methods for using ActionScript in a Flex application- <mx:Script> tag, which lets you insert ActionScript code as if it was typed directly within the <mx:Script> tag.If you want smarter way to organize your code than the best method is always storing your code in an ActionScript file. An ActionScript source file is just a text files with the .as extension, just like CSS file. You can call this in MXML using these methods- Using <mx:Script> tag which lets you specify a source attribute that identifies an external ActionScript file to be loaded at a specific point in the application. For example- <mx:Script source=”example.as” /> In this method you have to use the import statement to specify the full name of the class (Case sensitive), so the ActionScript compiler knows where to find it. For example, if you want to use the FlexExam class in ActionScript, you first need to import that class using its full name, including package and class: import flash.tutor.FlexExam; Through code which specifically refers to the class name. It works very simple, by referring to another class name in ActionScript code; you tell the compiler to load the definition of that class. For example, given an external class called Exx, this statement causes a new instance of the Exx class to be created: var sqr:Exx = new Exx(40,20);

In previous -Must have Firefox add-on series, we talked about three finest add-ons that make browsing a lot easier. This time our focus will be the add-ons that can extend your browser’s capability beyond usual. This add-ons or extensions are equally valuable to students as well as business users. DownThemAll! Not every Internet surfer in the world has high speed connection, and mostly they use some kind of download manager or accelerator to …

Apple’s Safari may be the rocking browser for Mac users, but only 4.04 percent Internet surfer use Safari while Firefox 2.x takes the third spot with 10.02 percent and IE7 occupy spot two followed by its predecessor IE6 at the top with a blistering 46.76 percent share (Statistics provided by Net Applications ). Even the web developers using Mac doesn’t hassle to check if their pages work with Safari unless their target market is particularly Mac oriented. So as you can see Safari remains as an underdog in browser war. Only Mac users were in love with it, deducting those …

Undoubtedly Firefox is one of the most feature rich browsers we have seen. Other top end modern browsers like Opera 9.2 and IE 7 also bundled with bunch of fascinate features, yet they left one step behind of FF, due to limited availability extensions/plug-in or whatever you want to call it. Firefox users has the liberty to extend the browsers functionality more than any other browser’s user due to handsome collection of extensions availability and explorations. There are hundreds of FF extensions available, not all of them are useful (in general sense), and so here are some of the …