31st July 2009

PHP regular expressions for web developers

regex.jpgRegular expressions are a very useful tool for developers. They allow to find, identify or replace text, words or any kind of characters. In this article, I have compiled 15+ extremely useful regular expressions that any web developer should have in his toolkit.

 Topics Covered

  • Regular expressions syntax
  • PHP regular expression functions
  • Validate domain name
  • Enlight a word from a text
  • Enlight search results in your WordPress blog
  • Get all images from a HTML document
  • Remove repeated words (case insensitive)
  • Remove repeated punctuation
  • Matching a XML/HTML tag
  • Matching an XHTML/XML tag with a certain attribute value
  • Matching hexadecimal color values
  • Find page title
  • Parsing Apache logs
  • Replacing double quotes by smart qutotes
  • Checking password complexity
  • WordPress: Using regexp to retrieve images from post
  • Generating automatic smileys

Here is the complete article

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22nd July 2009

Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals

cheat-sheets.gifCheat sheets and reference guides are useful for both beginners and advanced web professionals.

They can be used to help you remember syntax or as a tool to aid in memorization.In this post, we aim to cover the reference guides for all of the most commonly used platforms, software and coding languages.

In this web article you’ll find a compilation of the 30 most useful and well-organized cheat sheets, checklists and reference guides.

This is a Great resource for all of us. Here is the Article

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2nd April 2008

Top Programming Languages

TIOBE Software has done a neat study to identify the most popular progaramming languages and the results are as below. The detail study could be found here.

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Position
Apr 2008
Position
Apr 2007
Delta in Position Programming Language Ratings
Apr 2008
Delta
Apr 2007
Status
1 1 Java 20.529% +2.17%   A
2 2 C 14.684% -0.25%   A
3 5 (Visual) Basic 11.699% +3.42%   A
4 4 PHP 10.328% +1.69%   A
5 3 C++ 9.945% -0.77%   A
6 6 Perl 5.934% -0.10%   A
7 7 Python 4.534% +0.72%   A
8 8 C# 3.834% +0.28%   A
9 10 Ruby 2.855% +0.06%   A
10 11 Delphi 2.665% +0.33%   A
11 9 JavaScript 2.434% -0.70%   A
12 14 D 1.169% -0.35%   A
13 13 PL/SQL 0.608% -1.28%   B
14 12 SAS 0.572% -1.63%   A–
15 21 Pascal 0.513% -0.06%   B
16 17 Lisp/Scheme 0.476% -0.20%   B
17 22 FoxPro/xBase 0.459% -0.09%   B
18 18 COBOL 0.409% -0.24%   A–
19 16 Ada 0.393% -0.29%   B
20 31 ColdFusion 0.384% +0.11%   B

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1st December 2007

PhD in Informatics

Received Admission letter to the PhD in Informatics (Term Spring 2008).

I’m beyond trilled to start my studies. As a developer we never stop learning but its almost 2 years since my last degree. (MSc in IT - Keele UK )

Keele University

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