InfoWorld's Bossies Recognize the Best Open Source Offerings
InfoWorld's annual Bossies awards recognize top free and open source software, and the second annual list of winners is out now. Unlike SourceForge's... more »
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Upside of Freelancing
Discussion on the upside of Freelancing, what works, what doesn't and the pit falls of the good times.
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Hibernate with MySQL - a beginners guide - part 3
In part 1 and part 2 I showed how to get up and running with hibernate. This part continues from where we left off.
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PHP 5.3 alpha1 With New Native MySQL Driver
The first alpha version of PHP 5.3 was made available for download by the PHP Development Team. It contains the latest version of the MySQL native... more »
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Hibernate with MySQL - a beginners guide
This 2 part (so far) article is an introduction from getting hibernate working from scratch. The only dependency is that you have a text editor, a... more »
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Ubuntu issues big PHP update
The Ubuntu development team yesterday released a series of security fixes for PHP running on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 7.04, 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. The... more »
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Using Proper Header Redirects In PHP
If you use PHP on a regular basis, you've already used the header() function to perform a redirect. Have you considered sending in the proper status... more »
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Cuil Is Not the Google Killer It Would Like to Be
You’d think that after Google, nobody would even dare to venture into the search engine market. That apparently doesn’t include some former Googlers... more »
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Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 now available for download
The first developer milestone of the next release of Firefox - code named Shiretoko Alpha 1 - is now available for download. Shiretoko is built on... more »
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Is Firefox 3 a buggy browser?
I am using the Firefox version 3, which I downloaded during the Download day. I was impressed with the features that were promised by the Firefox team... more »
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Should you learn a framework?
Today someone came into the symfony user channel, and asked why they should learn a framework. It's an interesting question, to which I think the... more »
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Dependency Injection and the Zend Framework Controllers
Among the standard object oriented principles is favouring composition over inheritance, and there are plenty of design patterns that work along this... more »
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Symfony 1.1
The official stable release of symfony 1.1 is now nearly a month old, and response so far has been fairly positive. This is not surprising, as this... more »
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Cuil: Color Me Unimpressed
A first look at the Cuil search engine, the latest supposed Google-killer. Some search results analyzed.
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Application wide locale in Zend Framework
a new feature has been added within Zend Framework. it now supports the usage of an application wide locale. Anyone who is using I18N classes in his... more »
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Zend_File_Transfer examples or using validators to increase security
the new Zend_File_Transfer component is growing day for day. As incredible new feature this component allows to use file validators.
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Why build all your pages in PHP?
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I recently had this question put to me by a web designer who was considering the idea of using PHP pages in her websites: “Why build all your pages... more »
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jQuery iPod-style Drilldown Menu
We created an iPod-style drilldown menu to help users traverse hierarchical data quickly and with control. It's especially helpful when organizing... more »
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CSS Child Selector Performance
Are child selectors slower than more simple brethren? This is a question that Jon Sykes sought out data for after he read the work of Jim... more »
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How To Create A ‘Mootools Homepage’ Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery
Build a slick little mootools-esque effect using the jQuery library
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Yahoo! Answers powered by symfony
Yahoo! used symfony to redevelop another project. This time symfony was used as part of the foundation for Yahoo! Answers.
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Delphi Jumps Ship: Welcome Embarcadero
As you probably know by now, Delphi has a new owner. After 25 years of Borland Turbo Pascal and later Borland Delphi, after the Inprise fiasco and... more »
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Change Text Size On Click With Javascript
A lot of blogs and websites that have a wide range of users tend to have buttons or images that change the text size for easier readability. This can... more »
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CSS Message Box collection
Message boxes are useful elements to display status messages after or during a specific user request. Some days ago I wrote this post about how to... more »
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PHP logging class
This is a php class that will allow you to easily log any important activity in your site. It doesn't require any programming skills as it is very... more »
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