Web Applications

How Internet of Things will transform application monitoring

There’s a lot of discussion and hype on the market right now about the Internet of Things, and for good reason. If projections are correct, by 2020 over 30 billion objects will wirelessly be connected to the internet. One of the “elephants in the room” on discussions about IoT are exactly how all these objects […]

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Get the most out of Google Analytics for Social Media

In the last couple of years social media is “the hit” in our everyday life. Which means it becomes more and more interesting for the business – you should be where your customers are, right? So with the growth of social networks grows the part of social media in the online marketing mix. Businesses are […]

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Cross-Browser Compatibility Tips

As web development evolves, ensuring cross-browser compatibility remains a critical challenge for developers. Each browser renders web content differently due to the distinct rendering engines they use. For instance, Firefox utilizes Gecko, Internet Explorer (IE) uses Trident, and browsers like Safari and Google Chrome rely on Webkit. Understanding these engines is essential to address the […]

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Follow the traces of your visitors with Heatmap Tools

Web heatmaps are used to show which areas of a website are most frequently scanned by visitors. Heatmaps let you visualize the stream of visitors, showing hot and cold click zones. They provide an overall view of activity and help you see every mouse movement and every click. Using these tools can help you improve […]

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7 best practices for your Drupal environment

First released in 2001, Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal is used as a back-end framework for at least 5.1% of all Web sites worldwide, putting it in 3rd place behind WordPress and Joomla. The various uses for Drupal range from […]

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7 tools every web developer should be using

The explosive growth of the internet over the last twenty years and the democratization of knowledge and information has led to a revolution in the way that technology is implemented and consumed. The last 7 years in particular has witnessed a real revolution in the areas of mobile, cloud, collaboration, and information technologies and given […]

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PHP Performance Testing

Website Performance: PHP and similar articles list many PHP performance tips, but lists of tips sometimes contain spurious advice, or at least advice of minimal value. We really must measure the effectiveness of a tip in our own production environment before judging its worth. Test Harness for PHP offers us a simple little PHP program that […]

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The Gold Standard: MySQL Benchmarking Best Practices

MySQL Benchmarking is a useful branch of database performance optimization. This article expects the readers to have a basic understanding of relational database systems like MySQL and administrative use of Linux. So why should database administrators run benchmark tests on their MySQL systems? The answer is simply to see if the designed system is able […]

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