The PHP version of Twitter is open source
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The PHP open source community welcomes the new Twitter, a micro-blogging service based on the Free Software Laconica tool.
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5 Ways to Make Sure Your Project Fails
A backwards look at why projects fail.
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Rails can't scale alone.
An blog post on how the discussion of Rails scalability is pointless.
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What is a Closure?
Closures (aka Blocks) are essentially blocks of code that can be passed as arguments to a function or method. Unlike method pointers, anonymous... more »
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How to control POST requests in PHP without the Referer
A better method to prevent cross-site POST request forgeries in PHP, without relying on the notoriously un-reliable HTTP_REFERER setting.
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5 Common Sense Practices Dev Teams Should AVOID
Treat everyone the same, follow process, create a detailed design, make scope changes difficult and assign tasks round-robin...all seem like good... more »
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No, inheritance is not the way to achieve code reuse!
Every once in a while I interview a new computer science graduate for a developer position. I prefer to ask the kind of questions that will let me see... more »
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Substance Extras pack (Java Swing Look & Feel)
As specified in the roadmap for version 5.0 of Substance look-and-feel, a number of the existing Substance plugins have been consolidated into the... more »
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Groovy Recipes - book review
Review of Scott Davis' 'Groovy Recipes', part of the Pragmatic Bookshelf series.
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How to Setup a Subversion project and why.
A cute story to outline the reason services like Subversion exist and a handy tutorial on how to set up your own Subversion repository.
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Did you mean... ? In php
This article explains how to do the usual "Did you mean... ?" suggestions for search engines easily.
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Natural Programmers (Code Monkeys) vs. Career Programmers (Geeks in Suits)
To hire the most appropriate talent for your software development job, you must first understand the ethic of the Code Monkey. (Hint: it's best to... more »
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The advantage of Grails
This week Spring Source have released, Spring Web Flow 2, I've read release notes and this make me think about the advantage of Grails...
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An Argument for PHP
bloid via firsttube.com
Currently, over on Slashdot, there is an article on forthcoming features in PHP version 6. And, like most PHP articles, the comments section is... more »
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Use ColdFusion? Use Java.
If you use ColdFusion (or another Java-based CFML runtime), you should be using Java. There's a reason that CF uses Java under the hood: Java is... more »
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What happens when you blindly outsource to India? This!
A look at what can happen when you don't know what you're doing
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Is PHP a good first language?
Sometimes I’ve seen people say PHP is a bad first language, because it teaches bad programming habits. But is this actually true at all? Often those... more »
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5 PHP 5 features you can't afford to ignore
bloid via mtabini.blogspot.com
There are dozens of reasons to switch to PHP 5—not least the fact that, if you're still stuck on PHP 4, the PHP team is about to pull the rug from... more »
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The Rubyists are Wrong
bloid via headius.blogspot.com
There's something that's been bugging me for a long time that I need to get off my chest. Some of you may hate me for it, but perhaps there are others... more »
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Grails and the nulls that confuse me
bloid via dutytech.blogspot.com
Recently I've started doing a lot of my work in groovy. Being an old fart I love my java, but many of the young guys are pushing me to pick up the... more »
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Grails OpenID Plugin
This plugin provides simple authentication using OpenID. Using OpenID you don't need to store user credentials in your own application, so no... more »
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Look What you can do with RIA
I found this grea application build with Flex, just wanted to share the potencial of Flex
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The Most Reusable Piece Of Code Ever…Period
Can anyone else think of a cleaner, more highly used piece of “pocket code” than the good old State enumeration that they have used time and time... more »
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Do you Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?
Hopefully most will have actually considered the change of role and be looking for new challenges and ways to contribute more to their chosen... more »
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The elusive HTML ‘id’ attribute when using <g:form>
bloid via piragua.com
In most Grails tags, the usual HTML attributes get passed through to the output HTML, for example the ‘class’ attribute below
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