Benchmarking Zend_Config_Xml and Zend_Config_Ini
Historically I've always used XML for configuration files, since the format is flexible and the parsing tools mature. Recently I've been considering... more »
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Zend Framework in the Enterprise
ZF is still relatively young, and the upcoming 1.6 release does plug a few of the less-enterprisey holes. But if the framework is to be taken... more »
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Mangling XML as Text with PHP DOM
Recently I had to do some mass-conversion of HTML files to DITA XML — material I’d written for the upcoming JavaScript Ultimate Reference (the third,... more »
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Three Quick Tips To Make Your PHP Understandable
Producing code that clearly conveys a developer's intent is key to any well written application. That not only applies to PHP, but every programming... more »
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Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP
When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. In this tutorial... more »
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Erno: Talks About New Rails Features and Customer Involvement
One of the software engineers that Chris Kutler, as a NetBeans technical writer, get to work with on the NetBeans Ruby project is Erno Mononen, who... more »
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Lipstick on CGI
It was 1997 and while I was enamored with the web as an information portal, I hadn't really embraced the web yet as a programmer. While I had played... more »
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Enterprise Web Services Framework for PHP
WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP (WSO2 WSF/PHP) is an open source framework for providing and/or consuming Web services in PHP together with... more »
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Multiple Validation Sets in CakePHP 1.2
In CakePHP, you define how your data should be validated by setting parameters on the validate property of your model. In version 1.2, there is an on... more »
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Killing Ontologies - OWL In The Semantic Web?
Friday, I wrote a piece about my belief that we need to rename and reposition the Semantic Web as The Graph Web. My position is that the Semantic Web... more »
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ASP.NET - Cookies - Client Side State Management
In this post I'm going to explain what are cookies and how to use them as a part of the ASP.NET client side state management. A cookie is a piece of... more »
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YUI powered javascript Accordion widget
A great accordion based off YUI framework and supports nested accordions. Trust me, its pretty nice, you gotta check it out. Full feature set and... more »
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JBoss Cache 3.0.0 Alpha Available
The first alpha of JBoss Cache 3.0.0 - codenamed Naga - is out and available for download. In a nutshell, it is a truly open source (LGPL) distributed... more »
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Top 5 office misconducts
Good behaviour isn't what it used to be. This post defines 5 rules of office misconduct. Create a better office atmosphere today by following these... more »
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Google to buy Digg?
in brief Search giant Google is close to acquiring US-based social news aggregator Digg for around US$200 million, according to a report on US... more »
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Pivot: A Practical Example, Part 4 - Data Binding
This is the fourth in a series of five articles that walk through the implementation of a simple but practical Pivot application called Stock Tracker.... more »
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Delphi for PHP 2.0 can run on Linux and Mac OS X
This is a review of Delphi for PHP 2.0 that can now run under Linux and Mac OS X.
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Zend Framework 1.6 Release Candidate 1 now available!
We couldn't be happier to announce that Zend Framework 1.6 Release Candidate 1 is now available from the Zend Framework download site!
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SpringSource Enterprise Available To All
SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java, and a leading provider of infrastructure software, today announced... more »
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Non-blocking JavaScript Downloads
External JavaScript files block downloads and hurt your page performance, but there is an easy way to work around this problem: use dynamic scripts... more »
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NetBeans Tip: Reload Debugging (debug-fix-nb)
Just few days back, I talked about that its rather a good practice to debug, not to run! While following that, I discovered another thing, which was... more »
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New SQL Injection Attack hits hard with hidden payload
A new SQL injection hack seems to be out in the wild from verynx.cn. The SQL Injection hack uses a CHAR array to hide its payload which will insert... more »
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Code Reuse Myth
I am of the firm belief that code reuse is a personal responsibility, and should never be a corporate endeavor. Unfortunately, thousands of CIOs and... more »
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Django 1.0 alpha released!
In accordance with the Django 1.0 release roadmap, tonight we've released the first "alpha" testing version of Django 1.0. This release includes all... more »
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Using Annotations in PHP
Addendum is a PHP library that supports single-value and multi-value annotations.
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