If you do the work, you can get a computer science education online rivaling that of the Ivy League. Here's a nice little curriculum for you

Web Applications which make use of Avatars should have the privilege to change the Avatars. However you would definitely want to make the changes and resizing of the Avatar easily. There are several Web Applications which start with a user’s Facebook Avatar , Gravatar , Twitter Avatar and this is a regarded as a smart move by the developers because these Avatars provide a sense of ownership above a virtual space and thus having a way to get them have their preferred avatar is at all times good for engagement.

Web developers that still believe in creating code manually can really benefit from using jQuery to develop a website. It’s not a web wizard, but it defnitely makes coding much easier.

Article covering the System.exit method and why it is advisable to avoid using it unless absolutely necessary.

The saying “if it doesn’t exist on the Internet, it doesn’t exist“ is reigning truer every day. Nowadays, it is hard to imagine most businesses without an e-commerce platform, let alone without a web presence at all. Since e-commerce is becoming the new standard, e-commerce performance needs to be at its best. This article is an introduction to the blog series where I discuss several ways to ensure your company’s e-commerce performance success, including: avoiding unnecessary network load, reducing number of (internal) HTTP errors, improving backend performance, understanding your clients, ensuring scalability of e-commerce site and finally understanding sales results through conversion rate. In this episode you can read why pagerank SEO is not enough, and why performance and usability of your e-commerce matters.

This week in part 4 of creating our simple to-do application we’ll be learning how to send email notifications/reminders. To do this we’ll be using the PHP mail method and learning how to schedule repeatable tasks on Linux using cron. The equivalent process for Windows is the task scheduler and it is pretty self explanatory. WordPress has what it calls the wp-cron alternative, but it’s use is limited as it requires someone to actually use the site.