Author Archives: Michael Boguslavskiy

W3C Brings HTML5 to Recommendation Status

HTML5 has been around for a couple of years now – slowly growing as more and more websites transition from HTML4; and more and more browsers start to fully support all of HTML5’s features. As of right now almost all devices out there fully support HTML5. Computer browsers such as Chrome, Opera and Firefox support […]

The Basics of PHP Classes and Objects

As you learned in previous tutorials functions provide a way for you to divide your program’s tasks into separate, smaller tasks. Classes and objects are somewhat similar in helping you to organize your program. They are used to create collections of related variables and functions, which can be used to more accurately represent real-life situations. […]

Google Announces Partnership with PwC

Google has partnered with PricewaterhouseCoopers in an effort to “bring new and innovative services to companies around the world.” “For our clients, acquiring the knowledge most important to their operations, securing that information and using it optimally are critical-now more than ever before,” stated PwC Vice Chairman Mike Burwell. “PwC is teaming with Google to offer […]

FOR and FOREACH Loops

Much like WHILE loops FOR and FOREACH loops are meant to enable the repeated execution of a section of code. However, unlike while statements, for and foreach have features built into them to update the sentinel value for every repetition. So lets go back for a moment to our original example in the WHILE loops tutorial – […]

String Manipulation – Using STRPOS and STR_REPLACE PHP Functions

So we have substr and strlen PHP functions covered now – however there is alot more PHP can do out-the-box with strings. Let’s say we are storing the users full name within our database in a single column in the following format firstName-lastName. However on our frontend we want to be able to echo out the […]

String Manipulation – Using SUBSTR & STRLEN PHP Functions

Now that we’ve covered the basics of what functions are within PHP – PHP has a wide array of functions already available for you to use to work with various strings. So let’s say that we have a variable holding a user’s telephone number and we’re asking our user to input the last 4 digits of […]

Bing Now Understands Emoticons

Most of us use emoticons to some extent in our daily communication. Whether it be in our text messages, or in our emails – they’ve become a pretty crucial part to setting a tone in a text based communication. Well Bing now fully supports emoticons in all English markets – and from the playing around […]

Google’s New Meta Tag for Disabling Sitelinks Search

Chances are that you’ve already seen the Google Sitelinks search box in-action already. Google has put it into motion around the same time they announced the retirement of the Google Web Search API. The Sitelinks search box allows you to search through your site of choice without actually visiting the site – which may be […]

More Free Google Domains Invites!

Google was nice enough to hook me up with a handful more invite codes for their Google Domains beta – and as usual I’m giving them out for free here! If you want to see some screenshots about the clean awesome UI within Google Domains check out my review here. Otherwise ask for a free […]

TwitPic Gets Snatched Up By Twitter

Veteran TwitPic users have been on one hell of a rollercoaster ride as TwitPic was shutting down, wasn’t, was again – and then it finally seemed to have shut down as it reached it’s last remaining day – and Twitter snatched it up. So this means that unfortunately Twitpic will no longer be taking on […]

Google Rolls Out A Quick-Post Button In It’s Navbar

While doing my daily rounds of email checking I had noticed a new icon in the top of my Google navigation bar. The new icon, a square with a plus in it, can be clicked to open a pop-up that will allow you to quickly post or share something onto Google+.   You have the […]

Bing Ads Introduces Universal Event Tracking

Bing Ads has announced the launch of Universal Event Tracking – a new way to define and track your goals. The new tracking capability replaces the current Campaign Analytics conversion tracking functionality. The current conversion tracking will continue to work, however – any new tags will have to be created with the new tool starting […]

Happy Birthday Namecheap!

One of my first domain names was registered with Namecheap – many, many years back. So it’s only appropriate that I give them a shout out today and wish them a happy birthday! Namecheap turns 14 years young today – and boy how far they’ve come. What I absolutely must commend them on is consistently sticking […]

Google Updating Their DMCA Algorithm

Back in August of 2012 Google introduced the original DMCA algorithm – a policy designed to demote sites which have an unusually high number of DMCA takedown requests. On Friday of last week Google announced that they will be updating the DMCA algorithm as a global roll-out. An improved DMCA demotion signal in Search. In August […]

Apple Spotlight Search Data Shared With Bing

If you’re an avid Apple fan chances are you’ve already heard about the new and improved Spotlight Search within the new Yosemite Apple operating system for Mac. Spotlight Search gives the company access to people’s search queries, but also to the location of their computers by tracking your IP address to a geographic region. You’re […]