Error: Your email address is invalid. Every time I see those or similar words when I fill out a registration form I start to cry a little. It’s not my email address that is invalid, it’s the websites email validation functionality and it’s a great and effective way to loose visitors and/or customers quickly.
Joshua Thijssen is a freelance consultant, developer and trainer.
His daily work consists of maintaining code bases, working on different projects and helping other to achieve higher standards in both coding and thinking.
Monthly Archives: December 2009
TinyMCE Keyword plugin
TinyMCE is truly a remarkable editor. It’s the one I’m typing in now.. it’s the one we use for letting our e-commerce customers use for editing pages and it’s the one we use in our SiteManager5 CMS. You receive a fully down-gradable wysiwyg javascript editor which for non-technical users is very intuitive and thus easy…
Covering indices
It’s almost to easy to use a “SELECT * FROM” query in your code. First of all, you instantly get all the fields from your database so you don’t have to worry about changing your queries when you decide to use other fields (in case you don’t use a DAL). However, there are some drawbacks…
Big O notation
Normally you would develop against a test-database. It probably contains about 10 people so you can do your programming and testing.. Once it’s done and QA’d, it will go live and people start to visit the site. After a year or so,.. the site is too slow. Adding more db servers is of no use,…
Welcome
A lot of people are telling me to write some posts because I apparently have interesting stuff to say once in a while. This is the place I have picked out to do so. Since I don’t have a single area of expertise (or one could say, I’m an expert in ALL area’s :)), this…
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