Shane Rutter Blog

Category: Programming & Development

  • Progressive JPEGs for fast website image loading and ux design

    Want to Speed up your website images and improve user experience? Make sure you use progressive JPEGs (or interlaced JPEGs), it could help make your website load faster and retain visitors for a longer duration.

    Take a look at the example below showing a normal baselayer JPEG and a progressive JPEG LOADING side by side.

    http://pooyak.com/p/progjpeg/

    Instead of delaying page loading for high quality images, we can display lower quality and load the high quality whilst the user can still browser, view, read and purchase. Remember your visitors may be on a slow mobile connection! They don’t want to wait!

    Some further reading? Take a look at the website below.

    https://www.thewebmaster.com/dev/2016/feb/10/how-progressive-jpegs-can-speed-up-your-website/

  • WordPress: Update user / admin password via database

    WordPress: Update user / admin password via database

    Forgot your WordPress admin login details or a previous developer is unwilling to give you the WordPress login details, well the answer is very simple. As long as you have database access you can use the website below to generate a new password hashsum, simply replace the origional password value with the new hashsum and you will have access again. (more…)

  • PHP: Show PHP errors messages for debugging code

    PHP: Show PHP errors messages for debugging code

    Need to easily debug some php code? simple add the following code to your script to enable PHP error reporting and display error messages. This allows you to quickly debug without making configuration changes to servers PHP configuration.

    It is good practice to hide error messages for security reasons, error messages could be used by hackers to gather information and vulnerabilities.

    This code is provided as it and may require changes to work for your needs.

  • PHP: Random sequence function

    PHP: Random sequence function

    Here is a function I have created which is used to generate a sequence of random numbers, letters and symbols. I currently use it on a number of projects including http://passworded.co.uk which is a simple password generator. (more…)