I personally prefer the non-www domain to the www.* sub domain which evolved from the traditional web beginnings. Here is a generic .htaccess redirect from www.domain.tld to domain.tld.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [L,R=301]We have a simple API where I work that isn’t anything impressive, it is just a couple of scripts that accept POST and GET requests. However the previous developer who worked on it hadn’t considered the total ramifications and logged all requests using an email with print statements. Additionally, for each request there could be up to 3 emails generated, one for the initial request, one for errors, and one that included the payment gateway request and response. Not mention it definitely breaks PCI Compliance by emailing people’s credit card information, but we were also experiencing load issues on the web server for all the emails that were being generated through PHP Send Mail and the end result is about 10,000 to 100,000 emails waiting in my email account.
Read MoreRecently I started a social Phone Gap project for a client and decided it would be wise to use a JavaScript framework. It was first suggested that I look into Backbone.js. I investigated it and did a little research and digging. I looked at Backbone.js, jQuery Mobile, Ember.js, various others, and Angular.js . The long and the short is I read a slew of reviews, some documentation, a bunch or tutorials, and in the end I decided to go with Angular.js for my framework of choice.
Read MoreAbove is the original photo browser for the print details page on any Instaproofs photographer website. It highlighted the previous, current, and next photo for an event category and the previous and next images were also links to the actual print details page and if clicked would result in a new page request. Very clean, simple, and effective. You could browse the prints quicker with a search or category page, which also resulted in a new page request.
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