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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.
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
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.
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
A tutorial on how-to connect Facebook with your Wordpress blog, YouTube account, shared Items from Google Reader and comments posted on Google Sidewiki.
The only goal for an SEO is a good or very good google ranking. To ensure this you have to monitor your rankings and compare it to the positions of your competitors. With the Google AJAX Search API and my little PHP Class you can easy build a Google Ranking Checker …
One of the most popular open source NoSQL solutions is MongoDB, a solution which was released only last year yet is already seeing widespread adoption within enterprises such as github, The New York Times, and etsy. MongoDB stores data using a data structure which
Web scrappers are simple programs that are used to extract certain data from the web. Usually the structure of the the pages is known so scrappers have reduced complexity compared to parsers and crawlers.
I received lot of email requests from my reader that asked to me how to develop a facebook lite chat application. In this post I'm just giving an idea about chat application with simple javascript. I had implemented this at clouds.9lessons.info
File Caching is powerful and is useful for files on web server that do not change. Images, pdf files and other static content can be cached, thus reducing the network traffic between the server and the client.
In this tutorial you'll learn how to do file caching using Apache .htaccess file.
PHP and Java are both languages with reputations for getting things done, and there are plenty of reasons for combining the two, particularly in an Enterprise environment. The most common situation is for an organisation with an existing Java infrastructure to want to develop PHP projects, for all the reasons any enterprise would choose PHP, such as speed of development, cost, desire to use speci
PHP isn’t just for websites anymore. In fact, almost every script I’ve written to perform server-side functions is either written in bash or PHP, rather than Perl or Python as preferred by my colleagues. It’s a common belief that PHP isn’t suited for CLI programming since it’s mainly used in web applications, but PHP has over a hundred functions specifically i
This video explains how to write Flex and PHP code using Flash Builder 4 and Zend Studio 7.1. It also illustrates how remoting enables your application to consume PHP services.
The fundamental problem of PHP is how best to actually generate HTML.
Before going on to consider some solutions let's look at the nature of the problem in more detail.
This is part three of a beginner series for people with a MySQL/PHP background. Apologies for the delay, this blog entry has been in draft since the 13th December of last year (2009).