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Creating Chrome Extensions is very enjoyable, up until the point you realize that you kept all of the debugging code enabled for your users to see. Often times, you will write this data to the console, so having it always enabled isn’t such a big deal, but why fill up the console with a ton of gibberish to the average user?

The main solution out there is to have a logging function, and when you publish your extension you disable it by making it return false or breaking before any output is displayed. But as noted before, you will forget to do this here and there.

There is a reason why computers now have full Graphic User Interfaces (GUI’s) and no longer only have shells and terminals. But for some software, you still need to open up a terminal or command prompt to start the software. Or do you?

Today we are going to look at adding a Context Menu item inside of Windows 8.1, but it will work in other versions of windows such as XP, Vista, 7 and 8. A Context Menu, if you are unaware of what it is, is the menu that appears when you right click on a program, folder, desktop or other item on your computer. It’s provides optional features that you can use, such as opening a file in a different program or to archive a folder.

A few days ago I ran across an interesting question about a person who didn’t want to use PHP or didn’t have access to PHP and still wanted a contact form on their website. First off, if you have PHP and don’t mind using it, I suggest just using PHP for your contact forms.

But the method I came up with uses the mailto: URI scheme that almost every computer and phone knows. Sometimes users have it set to Microsoft Outlook or other software that they did not configure so their e-mails will not be sent. Also sometimes users don’t have the mailto: URI scheme specified so nothing will happen when they click on the link. But with those issues out of the way, lets get coding.

Give your RSS Feed a new look with CSS. If you have a website that has RSS feeds for comments, posts, updates or anything else you need to have it styled. Leaving your RSS Feed plain will make it blend in with all the other sites and even in some browsers make it difficult for users to read your sites RSS feed. Also giving your RSS feed a style that matches your site will show to your visitors that it’s part of the same company.

At one point or another you will need to force a website or a webpage to not be in a search engines cache or want to make sure it doesn’t get cached. I’m going to show you how to prevent Google and a few other search engines and caching services from caching your website. Please note that having a cached version of your site is often a good thing since if your website is under heavy load or no longer loads, users can still see your content.