How to get attribute name and value in Magento?

Here is the code to get attribute code and value for any product
Let as assume the attribute code is "my_attribute"

/**
 * get attribute collection
 */
$attribute = $_product->getResource()->getAttribute('my_attribute');
/**
 * get attribute type
 */
$attribute->getAttributeType();
/**
 * get attribute Label
 */
$attribute->getFrontendLabel();
/**
 * get attribute default value
 */
$attribute->getDefaultValue();
/**
 * check if the attribute is visible
 */
$attribute->getIsVisible();
/**
 * check if the attribute is required
 */
$attribute->getIsRequired();
/**
 * get attribute value
 */
$attributeValue = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_product->getId())->getMyAttribute();

Here is the code to fetch value from a select box attribute

$attributeValue = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
                            ->load($_product->getId())
                            ->getAttributeText('my_attribute');