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When I reflect on my past experience as a web programmer, there are many things that I know now that I didn’t know ten years ago. The learning process was valuable, but I could have been at a different spot today as a PHP web programmer if I knew these things earlier. Sometimes you don’t have the info when it would benefit you the most, but my hope is that this list will give you something to ref
The dark days of Drupal theming are history. Today, it's pretty easy to find a slick design for your site, and if you need to build one from scratch there are great training tools to make the process painless. (Shameless plug: Lullabot's Theming Basics and Advanced Theming DVDs are a great resource!)
Let’s face it – there are a lot of development frameworks out there, especially for PHP. CodeIgnitor and CakePHP come to mind immediately as leading PHP frameworks, but in this article I’m going to give some compelling reasons as to why you should be doing your PHP development with the Fuse PHP Framework. Fuse is a Model/View/Controller framework for PHP.
If you design website themes for clients and know how much effort it can be to start from scratch, you might be interested in WordPress frameworks. You’re probably already familiar with WordPress, a versatile, low-end CMS (Content Management System) which is often used for weblogs and a variety of types of websites as well. But are you familiar with WordPress Frameworks, which can reduce your web
With the release of the iPhone OS 3 update came the ability to do live streaming. There are a few types of streaming and each requires a certain encoding and segmentation. I've put together a cheat sheet on how I went about building a static stream using FFMpeg and an example segmenter that someone has posted. I'm not covering windowed streams in this post but if you are thinking about implementi
PHP News System (phpns) is an open source CMS that enables you to embed dynamic content into an existing website. It allows you to design your website however you like, and squeezes content into your design, wherever you like, with one line of code. PHP News System requires PHP, MySQL and ability to change file permissions on the server.
Today, we are going to learn how to install eZ Publish script. eZ Publish is a powerful Content Management System that is easy to use and of course free. In this tutorial, you will be guided step-by-step until you will be able to set up this powerful script by yourself.
Je viens d’assister a la première journée de la conférence web confoo.ca. Globalement, les sessions auxquels j’ai assisté étaient intéressantes. J’ai surtout pu voir des gens que j’ai tout le temps rêvé de voir comme Andrei Zmievski, Derick Rethans, Sebastian Bergmann et tout le reste!
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I’m loving WebPagetest.org. In Even Faster Web Sites I said, “[WebPagetest] hasn’t gotten the wide adoption it deserves.” It got a boost after Matt Cutts mentioned WebPageTest.org in his interview with WebProNews. But I still meet people who aren’t aware that this great performance tool is out there, so let me bang their drum some more.
When visiting information days at universities, you are once again reminded that creating good software is not all about the code. Sure, it is important to have your code as bug free as possible, well documented and as optimized as possible. It is, however, impossible to achieve this all without prior planning. Good project coordination.
The SQL Server Driver for PHP (also called the " sqlsrv " driver for it’s API prefix) has been available since July of 2008, but I still often see the "old" driver (the " mssql " driver) used to connect to SQL Server from PHP scripts. Many of the tutorials
Was just looking through some code and came across this function I wrote some time ago. If you do a lot of your processing scripts in PHP like we do, you probably need to know what is going on sometimes. So, I made a progress bar for use on the cli. I thought I would share it. Here is a video of it in action. And the code can be found here.
GetSimple is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that utilizes XML for data storage, has excellent user interface and is really easy to learn. GetSimple requires PHP 5.1.3+ and has been tested with Apache web server. Installation is a snap, all you need to do is upload files to your server and you are ready.
I use Wordpress as my blogging platform, it's a great tool, has a heap of plugins so you can do much with very little effort, which suits me fine :). As a software development blog I often have code snippets that I need to post and I want these to look good (i.e. formatting, syntax highlighting). This is why I use the WP-Syntax Wordpress plugin. I am not going to go into why it's so great,
