September 26th, 2008

5 Layer Spam Filter

It’s finally finished. I created a 5 layer secure spam filter for form submissions. With this method, in my opinion, 99.9% of spams will be filtered. And best of all, it doesn’t use any CAPTCHA.
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September 26th, 2008

What Makes a Good Developer

A developer doesn’t becomes a good developer simply by using a particular programming language.
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September 23rd, 2008

Interview with Top Designer Lucian Slatineanu

I have a great pleasure of having Lucian here with us. He is the owner of Emblematiq and he is among the top designers on the Internet.
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September 22nd, 2008

Why You Should Design For Smaller Screen Resolutions

As display technology evolves so as screen resolutions are getting bigger and varied, therefore giving a headache to website designers.
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September 15th, 2008

How to Deploy Web Projects

By web environment we understand not just a source code repository, but also the server configuration, the programming language version, database design, etc.
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September 13th, 2008

5 Most Popular Firefox Web Development Extension

My primary reason of using Firefox, besides that it is a great browser, is the extensions. I’m so dependent on these extensions that I can’t even imagine developing and designing a website without it.

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September 12th, 2008

2 Great Web Based Alternatives to PHPMyAdmin

PHPMyAdmin has many features, but it’s slow. Personally I think I use around 30% of what it has to offer. So I searched around for other lighter and faster alternatives and found not one, but two.
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September 6th, 2008

Ingredients Of Good Products

Good products have large return on investment (ROI), right ? Wrong.

Okay, in the business world everything is around profits and money, but don’t get fooled by high profits. The quality of a product or even a service doesn’t rely only on this factor. I always believed and consider it to this day that money is a nice ’side effect’ that your product / service is producing.
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August 30th, 2008

Compiled VC Questions About Startup Idea

I recently had a VC interview for one of my projects I’m working on. These were the questions they asked me, I organized them into different sections. I hope it’s helpful.
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August 26th, 2008

Choosing Hex Colors in Mac OS X

How to choose colors in Mac OS X is not so obvious for the first time. Fortunately we have a built-in Color Picker application in Mac OS X, but it’s rather difficult to locate and run every time I need to choose a color. So I developed I method for simplifying color picking.
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August 24th, 2008

My Top 5 Advice On Working With Clients

From my past experiences I concluded that clients do not know what they’re doing, asking you to do, but they want instant results and they’re always changing their mind about the project.
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July 7th, 2008

Don’t Design Misleading Signup and Login Forms

One particular aspect I often found in signup and login forms, which I consider to be wrong design, is that if the site are using e-mail addresses instead of a username to signup / login a visitor the password field comes right after the e-mail field. Here’s a screen shot: Read more »