1. Always Use the Latest Version jQuery is in constant development and improvement. John and his team are always researching new ways to improve program performances. As a sidenote, just a few months ago, he released Sizzle, a selector library that’s said to improve program performances up to 3 times in Firefox. If you want to stay up to date without having to download the library a thousand times, GIYF (Google Is Your Friend), in [...]

The following tutorial will consist of creating the following conventional modular directory sturcture and bootstrapping it via Zend_Application 1.8.x.It is broken up over four chapters. This tutorial assumes one or more of the following: You are familiar with PHP You know Object Oriented Programming. You can setup Apache (mod_rewrite), Virtual Hosts You are familiar with a previous version of Zend Framework You understand how the typical non-Zend_Application bootstrapping works You are familiar with the conventional [...]

Requirements Htaccess files are plain-text configuration files used by the Apache HTTP web server. They allow users to set directory level options without requiring access to the httpd.conf file. As such it is required that your server uses Apache, and a web host that allows htaccess files (the most popular hosts do). I assume a basic working knowledge of htaccess, but if you need to freshen up check out this article by Joseph Pecoraro 1. [...]

Compression is a simple, effective way to save bandwidth and speed up your site. I hesitated when recommending gzip compression when speeding up your javascript because of problems in older browsers. But it’s 2007. Most of my traffic comes from modern browsers, and quite frankly, most of my users are fairly tech-savvy. I don’t want to slow everyone else down because somebody is chugging along on IE 4.0 on Windows 95. Google and Yahoo use [...]