Create unique slugs for URLs using PHP and Python

September 17, 2014September 8, 2014 FrantzFerdinand Leave a comment

With every geek on Quora, it has become a place where people are asking all kinds of weird questions and that too again and again. If anyone observes the URLs, you would notice something called slugs. Slugs in the URLs are SEO friendly. By SEO friendly, it means that a URL like http://xyz.com/what-is-spice-forms is much better than than an id based url like this http://xyz.com/post/4. The what-is-spice-forms portion in URL is called slug. It points to exactly /post/4 and hence, acts as an alias. (more…)

Display attributes in CSS Explained

September 14, 2014September 8, 2014 FrantzFerdinand Leave a comment

The display property of an element is responsible for its layout and rendering on the browser. This particular setting defines how the element will look which includes not being visible at all. By default all the elements have inline as default display. (more…)

Facebook Graph API – The OAuth Token explained

September 10, 2014September 15, 2014 FrantzFerdinand Leave a comment

I still remember the days when few of the apps built to modify emails, wanted the username and password of the user to fetch their information. It was always unsafe, even when websites promised a lot. Basically, it was a violation of privacy, giving third party websites full control of the entire account. The biggest loophole was that if they changed the password of your account, it would be lost forever and you were bound completely without any legal support. (more…)