PHPEdit 2.0 Is Released
“PHPEdit is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed for PHP professionals. Includes advanced php related tools, powerful debugger and profiler, code beautifier, help integration, real time...
View ArticleKrugle: A Google for Coders
“For most people, open source is a synonym for free software. But for programmers, open source is about sharing code, building on the work of others and not having to reinvent the wheel — at least,...
View ArticleHow to turn a Static HTML page into a PHP page
In browsing the Web Pro World discussion boards, I found a great topic that shows how to add code to an htaccess file on Linux running an Apache web server so that files with a .html extension can...
View ArticleUsing Print Stylesheets
Found an article, Using Print Stylesheets that has some good resources on how to code CSS layouts so they convert well to printed pages. I typically never do the print stylesheet which lets the page...
View ArticleAJAX Apps Ripe Targets for JavaScript Hijacking
“Fortify Software has documented what the security firm is calling a “pervasive and critical” vulnerability in Web 2.0 applications—specifically, in the ability of an attacker to use a JavaScript...
View ArticleSimple Javascript Image Rotation Code
I like simplicity, especially with code. After wasting hours trying to tweak a flashy image rotation Javascript, complete with .js files to include, I gave up, called up the Google, and found this...
View ArticleGoogle Releases Web Browser Security Handbook
“Browsers have garnered renewed scrutiny from security researchers in recent years. In 2007, computer-science students at Stanford University found a way to bypass the same-origin policy in browsers,...
View ArticleThe Danger of Commenting Out Code
“The Broken Window Theory proposes the idea that if we do one bad thing in our code (i.e. break a window) then it becomes more likely that the next person who encounters that code will do something bad...
View ArticleTop 100 Software Engineering Books, Ever
Jurgen Appelo has a Knol page with his list of the best software engineering books. It’s got some things old and some things new. My favorite software books tend to focus on teams, how they do and do...
View ArticleHow to Create a Blog with Twitter, Search, and RSS
“Have you ever wanted to create a simple multi-person blog, but didn’t want to bother setting up an entire WordPress installation? If so then we’ve got just the answer. By combining Twitter Search,...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Refactoring (in PHP)
“Code refactoring is not to be confused with code optimization. Code optimization is a completely different ball game, where the goal is to run the program as fast as possible by using as few CPU...
View Article10 Free CAPTCHA Scripts and Services
“In the past days I received several requests from my readers to suggest some CAPTCHA scripts and services quickly to embed into a web page. This post proposes a list of ten interesting scripts and...
View ArticleWho’s Your Coding Buddy?
“Busy practitioners are sometimes reluctant to spend time examining a colleague’s work. You might be leery of a coworker who asks you to review his code. Does he lack confidence? Does he want you to do...
View ArticleA PHP Class for Facebook Application Development
Raju Mazumder at Style PHP has an interesting set of classes he wrote to interact with Facebook, for example, to get user profile information, send notifications to the Facebook user, and publish news...
View ArticleHow to Add Background Images to Email Newsletters
When Microsoft decided to use its older HTML rendering software from Word in Outlook, as the means to display HTML email, some key HTML email functionality disappeared. In particular, Outlook 2007 and...
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