One of our programmers had the following comment in a recent Subversion commit: “Verified to display correctly with IE6, IE7, FF Ubuntu, FF, Galeon, Konqueror”. Sigh… don’t you hate when you have to do that?

Code to scrape a web page and look for occurrences of a string.

A style sheet that makes it easy for you to test various web 2.0 colors on your site.

Use this alternative to Gimp and Inkscape to create your next Web 2.0 button.

Moving from Dreamweaver to Eclipse.

Skip the headaches with this easy guide.

A peek into the toolbox of a Web 2.0 developer.

Has anyone been able to find a good color chooser and PHP auto-completer for Eclipse?

15+ resources to help you to track your website s progress.

Although Dreamweaver is a great editor in its own right, I am always trying to explore new and easy ways to increase my productivity as a programmer. In my opinion, the reason why people do not like try new things is because they DON ’T like taking the time to learn something new. I call this the Microsoft Windows Effect...

Use this guide to create your first simple plugin in Ruby on Rails.

This simple tutorial explains the cascading feature of CSS. Useful for those starting out with CSS or if you need a refresher.

I have encountered this multiple times where people say something like: "I got around 13,000 hits and server couldn't handle it". This article shows you how to optimize your server and blog software to handle 500,000 hits per day.

This is a very simple and effective way to make sure you know when your site or blog is down.

The "Slashdot effect" or "Digg Effect" are just two popular terms, describing a website crashing under the load because it wasn't designed to properly handle spikes in traffic. The most important principle you have to understand, if you want to optimize website performance for effectively handling spikes in traffic, is this...

If you are interested in setting up Emacs on Windows, OS X or even in a terminal specifically for Rails development, this 5 part series of posts is for you.

This will be most useful for those starting out with Windows programming using Python.

Some thoughts on creating a dynamically evolving social network based on usage data.

LinRails is a binary package that includes Ruby-1.8.6, Rubygems-0.9.4, Rails 1.2.3, Mongrel 1.0.1, MySQL-5.0.41, ncurses-5.6, OpenSSL-0.9.8e, and zlib-1.2.3. Its goal is to make it easy to get a Ruby on Rails development environment running in no time. This initial 0.1 release doesn't have a Web server in the package; opinions are solicited as to which to include.

When I was using Windows XP I would use UltraVNC to access my desktop remotely, then when I “upgraded” to Vista I did not take to the time to do that, instead I used the built in Remote Desktop. Now that I have truly upgraded to Ubuntu, I want to be able to access my machine remotely. This blog post describes two methods.

Here are ten (sort of) social networks every developer should check out

This solution is based on the Sliding Door technique with dynamic width and a rollover effect. The menu is defined using a plain HTML list and using CSS you get a gracefully degradable tabbed menu. PHP is used to automate most of the process so that maintenance is very easy. It should be easy to port to any PHP application.

How to scale a website using tools such as tmpfs in-memory file systems, eAccelerator, Memcached, Lighttpd, Symfony, Ubuntu, client-side caching, and low-latency DNS servers. A must read for web developers and systems administrators running their own dedicated servers.

So, you want to learn the Python programming language but can't find a concise and yet full-featured tutorial. This tutorial will attempt to teach you Python in 10 minutes. It's probably not so much a tutorial as it is a cross between a tutorial and a cheatsheet, so it will just show you some basic concepts to start you off.

The tools and services we ’ve collected below aren’t validators. They format and beautify the code; some of them can remove redundant elements. Using them, you have to make sure you have a backup, so your data can always be restored. Let’s take a look at code beautifier and formatter which can save you a lot of time....