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Really funny video for web developers, unless you use Ruby...
When a programmer sees a chunk of code he tends to evaluate it in a rather intuitive manner and to qualify it as “elegant” or not. This is quite easy, because it’s subjective and nobody knows what exactly elegant means. However behind this there is a powerful mathematical approach of measuring a program effectiveness.
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A Twitter tweet button that works fast and fault-proof
On this episode of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert interview Michael Kimsal from the WebDev publishing company.
They talked about JSClasses, the just launched PHPClasses brother site for JavaScript components.
They also commented on the OpenID based single sign-on system that was implemented to reuse PHPClasses accounts on the JSClasses site to avoid making current PH
GD library in PHP is very useful for image processing and you can do a lot image manipulation from it. In this post, I’ll show you a simple Image manipulation (image rotation)using the function provided below in PHP. You’ll see how easy it is to rotate an image using PHP.
Google latitude is a great way to share your current GPS location with everyone. You can put up the google location badge on your blog and let the world know where you are. But the latitude badge does not provide the exact address of your current location. Google latitude badge shows only city level address with
Six great sites that anyone just starting out with PHP should check out regularly
What if you could build realtime web apps with the same ease as you build static web pages in PHP today? Without long polling, event handling and state synchronization, the engineering complexity of realtime web applications would drop by an order of magnitude. There would be a fundamental shift in the way we build the realtime web. This is the future of Fun.
SQLite is one of those awesome pieces of software known for its "liteness". It is, as you can guess from the name, a database designed to have as small a footprint as possible. SQLite is a very popular database, in fact, it is believed to be the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world.
The Thesis Theme for WordPress is the most smartest template system designed. There are many reasons that many of the good blogging sites use Thesis as their blogging platform because of the many reason. First and the most important reason to use Thesis Theme is because of its great search engine optimization capability, easy
I have noticed that many that are hot on “NoSQL” are those that do not have any training or interest in learning about database architecture, design or optimization. To them things like CouchDB are away of escaping the need to learn these things. But what many don’t realize is that the replacement for SQL, Map/Reduce, is a more difficult and less intuitive way of querying the data source.
When it comes to writing PHP code, readability is important. There is a lot of ugly code floating around out there on the web and most of it would give me a migraine that even a solid dose of Panadeine Forte couldn’t fix. If you’re a new developer and are trying to hone in on your coding style, maybe try giving the following a go. These are simply some conventional formatting methods that are gen
An easy way to detect mobile devices with PHP and the WURFL service.
In the Zend Framework’s documentation there are lots of examples how you can initialize all the actions in a given controller – by simply adding the init() public method in the controller’s code. But did you know that you can do the same thing with any model in ZF?
