A blog network is all well and good, but how will your users find each other? How will they talk to each other? Building a sense of community is important if you want your site to succeed.

Pretty URLs always helps you to boost up search engine page ranking. In this post I want to explain about URLs rewriting techniques using .htaccess file. Friendly URLs looks neat on the browser address bar.

I’ve recently been reading a few articles about the future of application development and IT infrastructure management. I believe that one of the main issues that face most IT pros is that we get caught up in the buzz word factory. Today’s latest: Cloud computing, Web 3.0, etc. What we fail to realize when we speak about the future of our architecture is the changing dynamic of our end users.

Google Search has recently introduced breadcrumbs in their Search Result Snippets replacing the URL displayed below the individual snippet. Not many search result snippets have a breadcrumb yet, so the question is, how does google obtain breadcrumb links from a website.

openSUSE 11.2 was just released. Check out these detailed steps on getting started and a review of the new version.

SVN is the version control system I’ve used the most, but lately I’ve been using Git more and more. I’ve also been using Git with projects that have an svn repository thanks to git’s built in svn support. While working with it, I’ve ran into several typical cases that I’ve often needed to deal with, that I haven’t encountered with SVN, so I thought I’d share some tips with you, as I’m really starting to think Git is a much better tool than SVN.

Most roles within scrum are clearly defined: product owners, developers and even testers etc..., but what about the role of scrum master? Without a dedicated project manager stepping into the realm (especially in small teams), this appears to a bit part role that is passed around like 'pass the parcel' hoping to find the most suitable team member fit for the job.

Michael McCallum provides a solution to some recurring M2Eclipse/Maven class loader/dependency hell issues.

I implemented a small part of SQL to see how close I could match it within Scala.

Today I found myself using a switch statement to determine which method to invoke depending on the value of a variable. The code looked messy and wasn't very flexible. The fix was to use a dictionary with delegates.

The intent of the Proxy pattern is to control access to an object by providing a surrogate, or placeholder, for it. Learn how to apply this pattern to your Java code.

This is a simple tutorial that will teach you how to create an animated cube revolving on its axis. To replicate the steps described above you will need Adobe Flash CS4.

The first post of this series gave a quick overview over the event tester usage, the last post gave a deep dive into some part of the event tester code. When talking about line numbers or certain code expression I’m always referring to the code provided in the last post. When talking about the expression tree construction in the last post the last thing we got into was the build up of the if/then/else expression. After building up the if/then/else expression we need to build the expression code which calls the if/then/else expression by passing in the parameter array which we built up with the GetParameterExpressionsFor method.

Rene Schulte extended his Silverlight 4 webcam and edge detection shader sample. He added a functionality to save webcam snapshots as JPEG files and discusses some limitations of Silverlight's built-in CaptureSource.AsyncCaptureImage snapshot method. Furthermore he gives some ideas on how to build a Silverlight 4 video chat / conference application on top of the JPEG capturing and encoding code.

As a developer I have made an habit of using the keyboard for the majority of tasks. Vim for example is my favorite text editor, which does not require point-and-click. This is a productivity requirement: the less my fingers move between the keyboard and the mouse, the faster I am in consulting documentation and other developers' blogs; vim even goes further and lets you scan a document without leaving the home row.

Having trouble getting things done? Falling behind on deadlines? Here are some tips.

Part 1 of an 8-Part series on building a web application from absolute scratch to a complete product.

In C++ Programming Language, increasing a value by 1 is called incrementing and decreasing value by 1 is called decrementing. As 1 is the most common value used to add, subtract and to reassign into variable.The increment operator(++) increases the variable's value by 1 and the decrement operator(--) decreases the value by 1.

This post shows how to use session handling in GWT, shows the client and server-side plumbing that is required to get this done nicely...esp. when you are using Spring, GWT-SL, Gilead

In Groovy we can write classes and write an implementation for methods we don't even know exist. We must implement the method methodMissing() which is invoked when other methods cannot be found.

Its sometimes necessary as a developer to log and track data as it is processed either to debug or to keep a simple record of maybe who’s logged in or out of your site. You could easily do this by accessing a MySQL database and adding a row, but you then have to create and maintain that database. So today I’m going to run through the steps to writing and reading a .txt log file.

Processing user-supplied form data can be fraught with errors. Not so with the Zend Framework! This tutorial shows you how to use the Zend Framework's Zend_Validate component to easily and conveniently validate complex form data.

Have an argument. Once you start an argument, not a discussion, you've already lost. Think about it: have you ever changed your mind because someone online started yelling at you? They might get you to shut up, but it's unlikely they've actually changed your opinion.

A function that we had to write in Java on a project that I worked on recently needed to indicate whether there was a gap in a series of data points or not.

Recently Billy McCafferty wrote a post on Horn, a package manager that Paul Cowan and Dave the Ninja have developed, similar to the idea of Ruby’s Gem. Although it’s a step in the right direction, it does have issues. To be able to use it, you need to download Horn and build it. But not only that, you also need to install Subversion, Git, Powershell, Rake, PSake, Cake, Fake…and a whole slew of SCM’s and build tools. Why? Because Horn builds from source. As such, it needs to access the SCM a specific project uses, download the files locally and run the build script. Since OSS projects are free to choose what build script they use, that also adds to the complexity. Some are happy with MSBuild, which isn’t normally an issue since it’s part of every .NET install. However, others use Rake, which in turn requires Ruby. You get the picture…