Girl Developer wants to know why we all just can't get along....
There are wars fought world wide over arbitrary ideals, developers will be the first people to tell you that. Why can't we apply the same unbiased... more »
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Popular PHP Applications: Where is the include coming from?
A closer look at Wordpress, MediaWiki, phpMyAdmin, phpBB, CakePHP, Symfony and Zend Framework dependencies.
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DAO Design Problems
The Data Access Object (DAO) pattern is now a widely accepted mechanism to abstract away the details of persistence in an application. In practice... more »
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Rails for PHP Developers: Function Reference
This function reference covers commonly used PHP libraries to their closest Ruby equivalents. The reference is structured very closely against the PHP... more »
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15 Resources To Get You Started With jQuery From Scratch
Maybe you're a seasoned jQuery pro. Heck, maybe you're John Resig. On the other hand, maybe you read words like "Prototype", "jQuery", and "Mootools"... more »
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Conditional Operator ( ?: ) vs. Null Coalescing Operator ( ?? ) in C#
This article explains what is the null coalescing operator in C# 2.0 and how to use it to get neater code.
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I'll get to your application in a minute - First, we need to build the framework
Today at lunch, I had a conversation with Kevin Hurwitz about developer tendencies. Kevin related a project he consulted on. He came in after over a... more »
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Javascript-to-PHP Remoting
This is a demonstration of a very fast and easy way to build AJAX-type applications where communications between JavaScript on the client side and... more »
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Doing it wrong: getters and setters
Every getter and setter in your code represents a failure to encapsulate and creates unnecessary coupling. A profusion of getters and setters (also... more »
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Riding Rails: Free Rails 2.1 Book
If you’re eager to learn how to use all the new features in Rails 2.1, Carlos Brando just released a free book titled Ruby on Rails 2.1, What’s New?.... more »
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SaveTheDevelopers.org - Making The Web A Better Place
Save A Developer. Upgrade Your Browser. Do you actually think you can rid the world of the scourge that is Internet Explorer 6? We can only hope, but... more »
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Geek Gang Signs (for all your developer homeys!)
Looking at a “Gang Signs” chart, I asked myself “Why should gangstas have all the fun?” The end result: the “Geek Signs” chart, pictured below. Enjoy!
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The creator of Ruby explains why Ruby sucks
Matz, the creator of Ruby, explains the problems Ruby faces in the "Vision for the future" Conference.
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I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass
An irreverent look at blogs on scalability
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Java Web Frameworks Survey
Recently I began to play with Eclipse and several web frameworks as I will be using Eclipse at work and programming with JSP. Another reason for this... more »
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Passenger aka mod_rails released
Rails deployment has now been made as easy as deploying php, check out this wonderfull piece of software from the Netherlands.
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NetBeans 7.0 Plans Uncovered: NetBeans to Become an Online IDE
I shouldn't be writing about this, because we were saving it as the big announcement for this year's JavaOne, but the information has already leaked:... more »
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PHP Redirect Function
After form submission or a page redirect is triggered, it's commonplace to redirect the user to a different page or to the same page, formatted in a... more »
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Grails: The next generation of MVC Framework
I have been a long time Struts, Java, J2EE developer. Like everyone else, I find it a pain in the butt to setup simple Java applications in a Java... more »
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Thin - A fast and very simple Ruby web server
Thin is a web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history
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This is why PHP is better than ROR
If you’re thinking of switching from PHP to ROR, read Rails is a ghetto first. Like you, two years ago I caught the ROR bug - I was looking for web... more »
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Getting Real IP address in PHP
If you think $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] always returns you the correct IP address of the client's machine then you're wrong.To get the correct ip... more »
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JRuby: 1.0.3 addresses compatibility issues, 1.1 performance update
JRuby 1.0.3 was made available, another release of the stable JRuby 1.0.x branch. Among fixed bugs, this release fixes some problems with Rails 2.0,... more »
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Ruby Screenshot of the Week #15: require_gem
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There have been a number of releases lately. Rails 2.0 shipped. NetBeans 6.0 mostly supports it. There were a couple of changes, such as the scaffold... more »
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