front-end development

Mobile Friendly Website Priorities You Should Focus On

Do you know how Google’s evolution is forcing business owners to invest in a mobile friendly strategy for their website?

In many countries, including the U.S., more Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers (according to Google) and therefore, mobile engagement is the new customer engagement. These are not hot news anymore. The mobile first design is a priority our designers and developers focus on when creating websites. So, here’s what’s important to focus on:

The priorities your mobile friendly site should have or implement in order to perform better.

Integrate Amazon S3 with Zend Framework

In this web development tutorial I will give you a few neccesary steps for uploading large files to an Amazon account using Zend Framework 1.

Note: If you want to use Amazon S3 for storing large filses, first you have to create an Amazon S3 account here. Please take note that the Amazon S3 is not a free service.

Import hotmail, outlook contacts with Javascript using Windows Live Contact API

In this tutorial I will show you a practical example of web development: how to import hotmail, outlook, live contacts to your web project, using a client-side method (javascript).

The response data will come in javascript, but you can easily pass it to php with an ajax function.

Note: If you don’t have a  live.com account (oulook, hotmail, live), you can create it here : https://www.live.com

Import Google contacts with PHP or Javascript using Google Contacts API and OAUTH 2.0

Inviting friends to a web application is a key factor to gain more users and traffic.

In this article we will try to give a practical, step by step web development example on how you can easily import google contacts to your web application, because even if google offers an api documentation, it’s always hard to find an example that is not out-dated,  that fits in your app without having headaches and losing precious time.

This tutorial will offer examples for Server Side application (php) but also for Client Side application (javascript). We will use OAUTH 2.0 authentication and Google Contacts API version 3.0.