We took some time out to interview the star:

You’ve had a fantastic career in the UK; do you feel your music will translate in the US?

“Yes of course, the sounds I create are universal. In fact my main influences come from US Urban Music Scene; I grew up listening to the likes of Biggie Smalls, Jay Z, Nas, Tupac, Snoop Dogg etc so naturally when I create music the sounds of my idols can be heard.”

It is notoriously difficult for UK Musicians to “Make it” in America, but being a Producer and not a singer/songwriter do you think that gives you a better chance to succeed?

“Well I hope so! I mean I can’t guarantee anything – but as long as I have the right representation and a sound people what to listen to then I guess that should be enough. But never can say! I could completely flop and have to fly my tired behind home!”

It’s been rumoured that you are working with Ed Sheeran and Devlin on some new material is this true?

“Well my Management are in talks, and I’m hoping we will be able to do something this year but both artists are incredibly busy being as talented as they are things can be difficult but I definitely hope we can work together soon”

Thanks for talking to us, we wish you all the success both here in the UK and America!

UK Hip Hop Urban Producer Danny Zuko has recently fired his A&R for failing to share his visions for his Dreams and Career.

Sources close to the Award Winning Producer tell us:

“Danny just wants to make beautiful, powerful, thought-provoking music. He won’t let anything stand in his way or block his dreams from becoming a reality. The person in question was let go for lack of professional conduct.”

Danny is said to be looking for new representation after recently joining Think Big! Media the Talent and Scouting Agency based in London.

Known for mixing Classical Music with hard hitting beats the trend setting producer should have no trouble finding new Management.

Just a real quick one, wanted to let you know about this new website called

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Check it out, its a marketplace for Internet Marketing Products

Earlier today working on a project , I found one trick which I would like to share. Here is a small code that limit a input box for defined number of characters.

Please take a look on following example:

Assuming we have to limit characters to 20.

That’s it, yeah its done!! You can check Working Demo

Any updations, suggestions and corrections are welcome.

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In my previous post ( PHP Magic Functions ), I discussed about __construct, __destruct, __call and __callStatic. Lets explore a few more magic functions …

In PHP what happens when you try to write data to an undefined object data member. PHP doesn’t throw any error or warning or exception. You can easily write and access that data member in your code. For e.g.

The above code will output :

In case, you want to take some action on access to undefined data member, you’ll have to write __set and __get functions in your class. You may want to throw an exception for alerting user not to do so or you may want that this undefined data member should be stored to some other place ( predefined array or something ).

Lets have a look …

The output of above code will be :

An art is not just an artistic product created by an artist. Instead, it has the power to transform the world with its self explanatory voice. When an artist decides to mark his/her online presence at World Wide Web with a Website then he/she always needs a great Web design matching its artwork. We have been dealing in Web Designing and PSD to HTML conversion for the last 12 years. Our team of experts has viewed hundreds/thousands of professional, paid and free artistic themes. They have come up with the following few selected themes. You can choose one, which suits the best for you or for your client.

It is a beautiful theme from Elegant Themes. This theme has five color schemes: Standard, Green, Stone, Wooden, and Noise. The centralized timthumb automatically resizes according to the size of images.

You’ll get complete control on DeepFocus to customize and tweak it as per your own convenience. Its sidebar allows the easy placement of advertising banners.

Photocrati provides 15 showstopper themes, especially crafted for art blogs and image galleries. If you want to sell your paintings or photographs, then this is a one stop solution for you. These themes have feature inbuilt gallery management and inbuilt integration of e-commerce. Each theme

1. Is directly integrated with PayPal
2. Allows receiving payments from Credit Cards.
3. Is compatible with iPhone and iPad.
4. Protects the copyright of your collection by disabling the right click, drag-&-drop of images to computer, and hides source URLs.
5. Has four different Home page styles – Slideshow, Gallery, Flimstrip, and Blog.

It is a beautiful theme from Elegant Themes. This theme has five color schemes: Standard, Green, Stone, Wooden, and Noise. The centralized timthumb automatically resizes according to the size of images.

You’ll get complete control on DeepFocus to customize and tweak it as per your own convenience. Its sidebar allows the easy placement of advertising banners.

Photoblog is a nice photo blogging theme from WP Zoom. This has a slideshow on the top to display the artwork. You can use this theme not only to publish pictures but also to write blogs about you and your work.

Another splendid theme from WP Zoom. This shows the home page in Filmstrip style – large view on top and pictures in thumbnail view in bottom row.

ePhoto is another brilliant theme from Elegant Themes crafted for artists. It has integrated blog section, automated thumbnail resizing, and is compatible with major browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and Opera.

Theme Forest presents this good looking WordPress theme for art bloggers and photographers. This shows slideshow on top, pictures in bottom, and widgets in right sidebar. Gallerific comes pre-integrated with Flickr, the largest Image Gallery on WWW. Hover your mouse the slideshow and it displays the entered information about images on animated areas.

It is another theme from Theme Forest provides convenient way to showcase self-managed Gallery of artworks, design, and pictures. Photo Nexus features Google Fonts, Auto Slideshow, Direct linking of pictures, and sorting of image galleries.

This is an interesting and artistic WordPress theme from Dandelion powered with Pexeto Panel. It is compatible with all major and latest browsers like Internet Explorer 9, Apple Safari 5, Google Chrome 11, Opera 11, and Firefox 4.

This is a flexible theme for artistic work from Theme Forest. This shows thumbnails of images on home page divided into row and columns. The number of thumbnails automatically change as per the height and width of browser screen.

Viewport is an artistic and elegant theme for you without any cost.

AutoFocus Pro is strictly a grid-based design mixed with basic grid and clean typography. In fact, this is a child theme of Thematic WordPress Theme. Its best selling feature is its dynamic Flickr integration that lets you pull out your Flick images with a single click only. A free version of this theme is also available namely AutoFocus +.

When it comes to Art Blog, a WordPress theme is not just a Web design but it turns to be a self-explanatory representation of your artwork. We suggest you to carefully select a theme for your dream project. If you’ve a limited budget and just starting your blog then we advise you to go with AutoFocus+ or Viewport. Later on, you can switch to a premium theme.

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Keshav Arora, working with Seo-Semantic-Xhtml, a specialized division of Ipraxa – a full Service Web Agency, offering PSD to HTML and third party application integration services like PSD to Magento, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Movable Type etc. Visit seoSemanticXhtml Blog for latest updates, Tips, tricks, techniques, tutorials, and articles related to web design and development.

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There are a lot of readymade jQuery plugins from helpful developers and designers who put excellent effects and functionality in their code to help your website. Here are 25 jQuery plugins to perk up your site. You can just download the scripts and add them to the jQuery framework, and it will enhance your web design.

Coda Slider is a cool sliding panel plugin widget from jQuery. It scrolls between dynamically made tabs and gives circular and easy navigation. It allows multiple sliders to sit on the same page. The best part would probably be its smooth motion.

This enables content or images to be slid vertically or horizontally as you click on the controls. It can be configured with CSS alone. You just have to set a link to the plugin file, then set up the content and you can style it using CSS.

Here’s a great way to view your pics. Images are listed with ‘More info’ button below them. As you click on it, the image grows in size to let you have a bigger view. To shrink the image back, click on the ‘close’ button.

Fancy Box is a tool that helps you display images, multimedia and HTML content in a Mac type ‘lightbox’ which floats on top of the web page. It can be easily customized and can group related items for easy navigation.

This one’s a lightbox to show divs, images, or complete remote pages in the style of Facebook. It is very easy to use and looks good too.

This plugin lets you add layouts easily to your content. You can add simple borders, rounded corners, box layouts, faded edges, and lots more. It is fast and concise.

Captify is a jQuery plugin to display image captions that come into view as you rollover your mouse on them. It is small and simple, and very easy to use.

With Quicksand, you can organize and reorder your things easily. It also has nice animation as you shuffle your stuff. This plugin will help you to scale out and rearrange the icons to their proper places- as specified by you.

This plugin lets you select any option from the given list of choices. This menu can be activated by mouse over or mouse click. Width of menu content can be customized.

jSquares makes an image pop up, and shows its description as mouse hovers over it.
It is great for seamless navigation.

This one is an image magnifier plugin. It is handy and provides great use in ecommerce applications and image galleries where users have to zoom and see an image carefully.

TipTip finds the edge of your browser window and it will ensure that your tooltips stay inside the window. So the tooltip size will be adjusted.

This plugin lets you organize content into collapsible sections. These sections can expand on demand. It comes with many skins and is highly customizable.

This plugin will resize your images if they are bigger than your browser window. It provides versatility and is centered in the window even if the use scrolls through the page.

Space Gallery is inspired by Time Machine of Apple. It is a pretty plugin by jQuery that creates a 3D image gallery. This gallery lets you float through your images easily. This plugin gives a really nice effect.

SimpleModal is a modal contact form. It is pretty straightforward and flexible. You can select the right theme according to your taste. Its aim is to give a container to developers that they can populate with data.

The Virtual Tour plugin is easily accessible and can run on a system even if JavaScript is not active on it. Navigation is done by using regular HTML tags.

LavaLamp does just its name indicates: it looks like a lava lamp. It presents a cool lava-flowing effect in the navigation menu of Blogger.

If you want different edges for your elements, then you can use Corner. It can generate and position div elements dynamically. It offers many different designs for element corners.

This plugin has a few tricks that you can use to get a great looking gallery. It has 3 built in styles: black, white and shadow. It can be configured and customized with various options.

Another slideshow plugin that is perfect if you have to handle big volumes of images, and conserve the bandwidth as well. It has a flexible configuration and smart image preloading, along with thumbnail navigation.

An image gallery framework that will simplify your task of creating image galleries for mobile devices and web. It has many themes and it can be easily customized.

These are very popular tabs of jQuery and they have many configurations. For instance, you can have nested tabs, rotating tabs and the like. They offer easy navigation.

This plugin will make contact or feedback forms more accessible. You can create a contact form on any web page effortlessly. It overlays the content on the page really quickly thus making things easier for you.

With this plugin, you can add iPhone scrolling ability to your webpage. It accepts a parent element along with overflowing children elements. It then turns the parent element into a scrollable pane. It uses a drag and release method instead of scroll bars.

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One of the fascinating trends which we have noticed recently is to representing the pricing info of a web app in an artistic manner. Pricing tables are most significant part of any web-based application because it features your pricing and ordering details, so pricing table design should be appealing and eye-catching. Modern age designers love to try out with things and examine how people amalgamate with our work.

The more time and effort you devote for a functional, attention-grabbing design and hitting your main goals, the greater will be your chances for getting more and more balance in your account at the end of the month.
Below you can see 50 superb examples of pricing pages.

This post has been shared by PixelCrayons, a well known web design agency.

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Version Control Software (VCS) is one of the tools used in Software Development to track and
thus manage the process of making alterations to the project’s files. Also known as Revision
Control Software(RCS), it is an amalgamation of practices and technologies wherein changes are
made particularly in documentation, source code, web pages, specification documentations that
includes graphical elements. Any type of modifications such as rectifying the errors or adding a new
functionality that have been made to the above mentioned files, involve changes to other several files.

Considering the time and effort involve, Version Control Software was made to alleviate the
complexities developers encounter. With the use of VCS, there is no need for a web developer to
work on the software’s master copy. A programmer using version control can seamlessly alter the
application’s working copy that is handled by their VC application. After all the desired changes have
been made, developers then register the same with a detailed note.

This Software Configuration Management Software then applies the modifications done to the
repository in a manner that all the changes done in the past can be set apart, listed with descriptive
notes and also reversed if at all required. The repository can be on any machine, either servers or
clients. Developers can use their own version control or even a hosted service.

The exclusivity Version Control Software provides is that it effectively manages the changes that have
been applied by many programmers. And if the system is more rigid, then each programmer is provided
an opportunity to lock the file they intend to work on. The intriguing thing is that it will then block the
access to other programmers to use the same file till the time the one working on it is done with it. This
can be a hindrance due to the fact that the programmers may need to alter other parts of the same file
and it cannot be done when the file is locked for the use of one programmer exclusively.

However, the modern systems are much flexible as they dispense with locking, monitors the registered
changes and merges them automatically if they fit well. If in case two programmers are changing the
same functionality in a file, to avoid the conflicts, in such a case version control detects the error to be
corrected.

1.It organizes set of files that have been made over time
2.It allows referring previous revisions of files and making comparisons between different revisions
3.It keeps accurate and retrievable log of different file versions
4.It allow several programmers to work on the same development project, regardless of their
geographical location

5.It facilitates inter-developer communication, release and bug management, stability of code,
experimentation, attribution as well as authorization of the changes made by developers
6.It ensures central coordinating force
7.It reduces costs involved in maintenance
8.It improves productivity of the development team
9.It enhances development workflow
10.It saves a lot of time involved in finding defects

Sponsored By: Maneet Puri. He heads a leading IT firm in Delhi, Lexolution IT Services that specializes in providing superior web design and web development in India. Leveraging a pool of professional Indian web developers, the company assures to deliver quality and cost-effective services to clients globally.

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Continuing my posts on PHP Magic Functions lets close this topic now and talk about rest of the Magic Functions.

Before talking about these magic functions, I want you to be clear about serialization and unserialization of a variable. Some times you need to ( may be you’ve never done so but now you’ll atleast think about it ) store ( using string representation ) your variable to database or primary storage or session or any where and from that location you can get the same value again.

To acheive this you can use either of two available possiblilities in PHP. First one is use of serialize and unserialize functions and another one is use of json_encode and json_decode functions. I personally prefer the formar approach since serialize and unserialize functions are quite faster than json_encode and json_decode functions. The latter approach is useful when you need to port your data from php to other programming languages like javascript or actionscript etc.

Have take a look, what I’m talking about …

The above snippet of code will output something like this …

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