The folks at DZone provide a great way for developers to share links in one, concentrated area. URLs which rank highly in their system (those that receive many “up” votes)…
Today we’re introducing a new type of post at Lateral Code: the simple snippet. These articles are meant to provide you with concise, meaningful snippets of code for use on…
If you have ever administered a website, you know that downtime is unavoidable. Creating a system to automatically check if your website is up can help deal with downtime and…
If you use WordPress, you know that after a few months of blogging, there are far too many posts to display simultaneously. To reduce the loading time of your website,…
Take a look at this image in Firefox or Opera. Now view it again in any other browser. Notice a difference? In case you don’t have multiple browsers, here’s a…
PHP and MySQL have often been known as two peas in a pod. Unfortunately, when you use PHP to insert information into a MySQL database, you often have to write…
Using JavaScript libraries like jQuery and Mootools does simplify your code, but this comes with the price of an added footprint. Often times, the same effects can be accomplished in…