website-development

Ending Session on Browser close?

I would like to flush a user's session with my website as soon as they close their web browser. How do I go about implementing that? ...

Website tactics: A question about how many SQL queries are enough

I've recently begun to unveil and slowly roll out a homemade CMS. The site allows a lot of customization with movement towards internationalization and customization onto a level that doesn't require source code. This is a personal project, and the entire intent was to see how far I can push my own programming limits (the question of dis...

URL: Directory like or Pages with extension

If you look at the url of the stackoverflow.com you can see that the url is like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1284899/designing-a-website-for-both-javascript-script-support-and-not-support or some very popular websites like wikipedia have the same format (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQ) ...

Git for Websites / post-receive / Separation of Test and Production Sites

Hi all, I'm using Git to manage my website's source code and deployment, and currently have the test and live sites running on the same box. Following this resource http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto originally, I came up with the following post-receive hook script to differentiate between pushes to my live site and pushes to my t...

Nowadays, which MVC frameworks (such as Ruby on Rails) are widely in use and also very cool?

Seems like more companies are using Ruby on Rails nowadays. What are some other frameworks that are commonly in use nowadays and some that make you go "wow, this is cool"? ...

Mobile Website Development

Are there any tools for Mobile Website (not Mobile Application) Development? For computer websites, CSS grids like Blueprint CSS are used. Is there any thing similar for the mobile version? There's lot of talk about HTML5 + CSS3 + Javascript - a combination thats going to transform Mobile Websites. Not sure how true. Any good tutorials...

Testing method: Using 'Private Browsing' for testing sites without cache?

I'm wondering if anyone switches to private browsing mode to test sites sans cache? You know when you have to clear cache to make sure that what you are seing is fresh from the server, surely private browsing is a safe, and faster way to do this, instead of having to go to your settings each time and clearing. Putting this out there to ...