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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
There’s a new phenomenon in Google search results that is worthy of a quick update. If Google has properly classified the location of your business, you may find yourself at a higher spot in the organic search results when you do your searches from in town. When you’re searching from a few hundred miles away, [...]
By: Patrick Hare in Google, Web Development
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
In case you weren’t aware of it, there are more browsers than just Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Chrome. A lot more. One of those less-popular browsers is something called “Opera,” a web browser that has more age and experience than some of the others, but not quite as much [...]
in Opera, Web Development
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
At ZYB we have been doing cross domain JavaScript calls for quite some time now. Whenever we tell that to people, many don’t believe it is possible with standard security settings in any modern browser. This surprised me a bit since it has always been possible with a simple little trick.
The problem
Say you have a [...]
By: Mads Kristensen in iFrame, Javascript, Web Development
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
As with the Google APIs, the Yahoo Developer Network APIs has a great deal of functionality. Some of the most popular APIs are the Search APIs, Flickr API, and Maps APIs. They also have an extensive documentation on how to implement the APIs and how to use them. Before you start, you will need to [...]
By: Rodney in API, Web Development
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
In the past we talked about using Google’s APIs in order to enhance your site. You may have thought about using Google APIs on your site in the past, but felt that there maybe a limitation to what you could do, or that it wouldn’t provide the features you thought the API would. [...]
By: Derald in API, Web Development
Monday, May 4th, 2009
To any developer writing secure code should be natural to them, but in reality it isn’t. As developers security should start taking a bigger role in your design process. No matter how great a site is, without proper security protection, the site is useless. There are four simple rules you can follow [...]
By: Derald in Security, Web Development
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Tropicana recently learned a very important lesson in design and human nature. The company chose to redesign their packaging, which removed the iconic orange with a straw in it, and replace it with orange juice being poured into a wine like glass. The new design was not a bad design, it was well done and [...]
By: Derald in Web Design, Web Development
Monday, April 13th, 2009
When new developers first start learning PHP, they don’t learn about security as much as they do PHP”s language structure. Security is just as important to learn as is the language’s structure itself. Without secure code you may create larger issues. A user could take over a web server due to a security hole in [...]
By: Derald in PHP, Security, Web Development
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
One of the hard things to do in web development is create useful features - and if you come up with a useful feature, securing the code for that feature. Luckily, Google Code provides a lot of APIs that you can use to increase the features on your site.
in API, Google, Web Development
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
The popular trend on the web right now is social media. Seems like every week there is a new social media site that shows up and is ready to take over the one the came on the market last week. A lot of websites are using social media sites to market their own site, [...]
By: Derald in Social Media, Web Development