{"id":2459,"date":"2015-05-27T17:12:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2016-04-07T11:53:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T11:53:41","slug":"web-developer-tips-collection-2-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/web-developer-tips-collection-2-may-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Developer Tips – Collection #2 (May 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s start it off with a great quote: “To understand recursion, you first need to understand recursion”<\/p>\n

Before I get to the tips, I thought I’d mention something that’s been irking me a little bit lately. Why do people minify server-side code!<\/p>\n

I absolutely love it when people provide assistance in the form of code samples. I would urge people to keep such examples “maxified”!<\/p>\n

Example:<\/p>\n

$test.=’test’;<\/p>\n

Why not<\/p>\n

$test .= ‘test’;<\/p>\n

Easier to read, right? Okay, enough of that – let’s see what I learned this month:<\/p>\n

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  1. I’ve used Amazon EC2 to setup 2 or 3 server instances this month. It’s been a positive experience, except for one really big thing:When I create a 32 GB volume, it only allocates 8GB of space for use on the drive. There’s a whole bag of tricks you can use to adjust your partitions (or whatever the actual process is) to use the full allocate space. But, I didn’t want to attempt this on a production server.\n

    Lesson: \u00a0If you go with EC2, verify that your drive actually has the full amount of space allocated to it before you go to production!<\/p>\n

    Edit: I pieced together a solution in the snippet:<\/strong>
    \nLinux Resize Amazon EC2 Linux Partition<\/a>\u00a0(really, I just logged my keystrokes)<\/li>\n

  2. Get ready to grab an SSL certificate for all of your sites. It looks like HTTP\/2 will be limited to secure connections only.In addition, at the end of April 2015, Mozilla announced that it is officially deprecating the HTTP protocol.<\/li>\n
  3. The #CSS :only-child and :only-of-type pseudo-classes aren’t well-known. But, they can be useful to call out single list elements if needed.<\/li>\n
  4. The Google search spider can now execute and index JavaScript. So say goodbye to hiding elements with JavaScript.<\/li>\n
  5. MySQL is working on an HTTP API<\/a>. This would allow you to query the database over HTTP\/HTTPS and get a JSON-formatted response.<\/li>\n
  6. Need to make sure that your white text is visible when overlayed on any image. There’s a real quick CSS solution to add a single-pixel-width “stroke” to the text:\n
    text-shadow: -1px -1px 0 #000, 1px -1px 0 #000, -1px 1px 0 #000, 1px 1px 0 #000;<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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