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I’m a planning whore. It’s true. I’m one of those weirdos that really enjoys creating data flows, use cases, wireframes, and functional requirements documents. My bizarre predalictions aside, wireframes are a critical part of planning any website or web based application.
Writing code is easy. Instantiating objects, calling methods, memorising functions (or using the documentation instead); these are all trivial tasks that we have all taken time to study and practise. But engineering software is so much more than coding. As a software engineer you take on several roles throughout the software development life cycle. Let us take a look at some key roles that develo
In order to make sure that your website is always available to the public, you have to monitor it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can easily create a monitoring script that will check your website availability and send an email or sms alert to you if it isn’t.
This month not much changed in the index. Objective-C and Go are still scoring all time highs, while staying close to each other. There are 4 programming languages that have a realistic chance of entering the top 20 next month. These are educational language Scratch, functional language Erlang and JVM languages Scala and JavaFX Script.
Php namespaces, introduced with the 5.3 release, are a great tool to stop writing very long class names. Importing class names via use statements makes you able to refer to classes via their base name, for example by writing: use NakedPhp\MetaModel\NakedObject;
PHP can be extremely useful when you are working on web applications or web services, they quickly allow them to be built and keep the app relatively lightweight. Whether your fluent in PHP or not, PHP frameworks can be huge timesavers for anyone creating apps or softwares and they have a pretty gentle learning curve.
PHP has grown to become one of the most wide-spread server-side scripting language that's used on a daily basis in a variety of ways. For the most part, almost every developer that's introduced to this programming language uses it and becomes fond of it at some point. With the support of a very large community, this incredibly fast technology is taking over other server-side scripting languages.
Earlier this week, we pinged PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf about the implications of HipHop, the new PHP runtime that Facebook just open-sourced. Using ReadWriteWeb as an example, he goes into great detail about how speeding up PHP isn't simply a matter of finding a single magic bullet. Lerdorf contends that true optimization comes down to attacking the mundane inefficiencies that sneak into sites o
A REST client library with the possibility of execute threaded REST calls in PHP thanks to curl's 'multi' functions.
In Crystal 0.3 you can create and use as many database instances as you need. For example you can define one instance for your master database server and several instances for your slave servers.
FaceCrop SDK makes it possible to automatically produce face avatars or passport-size images of human faces out of digital snapshots with just one function call. The available command-line tool makes FaceCrop SDK easy to integrate into any project without any programming required.
STOP bad html inserted by your clients or by the users of your community! This PHP class lets you clean and repair html code. Here is a quick list of the magic things it can do (it’s really good when you don’t have the possibility to install the Html Tidy module of PHP).
We are, and always have been, big fans of open source software. In our daily workflow at Pelago we use various open source technologies; PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, Apache, Subversion, and many others. We primarily use these open source technologies in developing Intervals, our online time, task and project management software, and in designing and developing web sites and web-based applicatio
Over the past few days I was going through the Zend Framework reference docs and I found myself pleasantly surprised with all that the latest version of this web application framework provides. My first thought was to just acknowledge the speed in which PHP as a technology has been maturing. Out of the many new features, what stood out for me was the ease with which Zend Framework and PHPUnit com
As I mentioned before, I got the book Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development for review. It took me a bit more time than I though to do this (one of the reasons will become clear soon) but here it finally comes.
