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  A Categorization Scheme for All Those Java I/O Stream Classes

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 5:32pm MDT

  Try this handy technique for categorizing the potentially overwhelming number of I/O stream classes in Java.

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  MVC and the Zend Framework

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this four-part article series, you'll learn about the model-view-controller (MVC) design architecture, why its use is a best practice when building web applications, and how using the Zend framework for PHP lets you make the most of this architecture. This article is excerpted from chapter 25 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Even at this likely early stage of your Web development career, chances are you're already attempting to sketch out the features of a long-desired custom application. An e-commerce store perhaps? An online community forum devoted to stamp collecting? Or maybe something a tad less interesting but non...

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  Getting Started with Memcached Distributed Memory Caching

  Fetched: September 1st, 2010, 3:32pm MDT

  What exactly is Memcached? When and how should you use it? Get all the answers you need to begin using this powerful distributed memory caching system.

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  PHP: Rendering Web Pages Using the Composite View Design Pattern

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Welcome to the conclusion of a five-part series on the Composite View design pattern. This article will focus on a way to make use of this design pattern when you're building dynamic web pages. It involves a simple two-step rendering process.
  - As you probably know, one of the great commandments of good object-oriented programming says that whenever possible, Composition must be used over Inheritance, as the latter is an overrated way of reusing code. While its fair to admit that this principle should be used with due caution and, for obvi...

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  Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Manipulating Padding and Margins at the Same Time

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a series I demonstrate how easy it is to manipulate simultaneously the padding and margins of an HTML list with CSS. In fact the process is so simple that you shouldn t have major trouble replicating it when designing your own web pages....
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  Joomla Layouts: Customizing Your Website

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  This is part two of a series on Joomla web development in Ubuntu. In the first part, you learned the basic but very important website development skills in Joomla. In this part, you'll learn how to work with templates and other aspects of creating a customized Joomla-based website.
  - Just to refresh your memory, the skills covered in the first part included the following: Changing your password in phpMyAdmin (in case you forget your administrator password). Changing the default and uploading Joomla templates. Working with and activating new Joomla templates. Working wi...

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  Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Specifying Padding and Margins in Pixels

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a series you will learn how to assign individual values to the padding and margin properties of an HTML list. The process is simple to understand it s very similar to performing the same task with other web page elements....
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  Write More Understandable Java Tests with Matcher Objects

  Fetched: August 30th, 2010, 7:32pm MDT

  Have your Java unit test assertions gotten hard to read? Use the matcher objects provided by the Hamcrest and fluent FEST-Assert libraries.

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  PHP: Creating Dynamic Web Pages with the Composite View Design Pattern

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of a series, I demonstrate how to use all the composite view classes defined previously for generating a simple yet dynamic web page using a single rendering method. This example shows the real functionality of the Composite View pattern when it comes to rendering individual web page sections (partials) by using uncluttered, easy-to-follow client code.
  - Sharing nearly the same logic as its counterpart Composite (at least at a basic level), Composite View is a clever design pattern that takes full advantage of the functionality provided by Composition to manipulate single and multiple elements of a user interface through the same set of methods. W...

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  Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Resetting Padding and Margins

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this first part of the series on styling HTML lists with CSS I explain how to reset their padding and margins. The entire styling process is very easy to follow....
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  A Guide to Developer Degrees: Beyond 'Comp Sci'

  Fetched: August 27th, 2010, 6:32pm MDT

  Find out what the three main types of developer degrees are.
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  Quercus: Bring Java's Power to Your PHP Development (and Vice Versa)

  Fetched: August 26th, 2010, 5:32pm MDT

  With Quercus, PHP and Java developers can mix and match the respective capabilities of both languages.

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  Secure Encrypting and Decrypting for Your PHP Website

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a three-part series on secure PHP programming, you'll learn how to validate inputs, handle hashing, use the MCrypt package, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 21 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Converting Input into HTML Entities The htmlentities() function converts certain characters that have special meaning in an HTML context to strings that a browser can render as provided rather than execute them as HTML. Its prototype follows: string htmlentities(string input [, int quote_style [,...

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  The Technology Behind the OpenStack Cloud Computing Project

  Fetched: August 25th, 2010, 4:32pm MDT

  Go inside OpenStack, the NASA and Rackspace joint effort to provide common, open cloud computing software.

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  Joomla Website Layout Customization

  Posted: August 25th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  This is the first part of a beginner web development tutorial series for Joomla as the content management system used in a website. This tutorial is mainly written for Ubuntu-based developers with an XAMPP installation in a Linux environment. Keep reading to learn how to customize your Joomla website layout.
  - If you're planning to work and develop customized Joomla websites in Ubuntu and do not have a local web server installed (LAMP configuration: Linux – Apache – MySQL and PHP), you can read another tutorial on this site to learn to install XAMPP in Ubuntu. If you have a fully working XAMPP insta...

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  Application Deployment with Capistrano

  Posted: August 25th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a five-part series on application deployment with Ruby on Rails you ll learn how to create and use the Capistrano Deployment recipe. This article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Top 10 PHP Tools for Boosting Productivity

  Fetched: August 24th, 2010, 7:33pm MDT

  These 10 productivity-boosting PHP development tools will free you from menial, repetitive tasks, making you more efficient.

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  PHP: Creating Single View Objects with the Composite View Design Pattern

  Posted: August 24th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a series on the Composite View pattern, I develop a concrete class derived from the abstract parent built previously. This new class will be responsible for creating simple view objects.
  - The tandem composed of the Composite and Decorator design patterns offers an example that shows where the use of Composition can help in building flexible applications. While decorators are normally used for extending the functionality of objects that are of the same type without having to appeal...

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  Deploying an Application to the Server

  Posted: August 24th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part to a five-part series on deploying a Rails application you ll learn how to deploy an application manually create users and groups and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....

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  CodePlex Foundation Aims to Evolve Commercial Open Source

  Fetched: August 23rd, 2010, 2:32pm MDT

  The Microsoft-sponsored open source CodePlex Foundation nears its first anniversary and lays out a plan for growth in its second year.

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  PHP: View Object Collections and the Composite View Design

  Posted: August 23rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a series, I demonstrate how to create a concrete composite view class, capable of rendering single and multiple view templates via the same “render()” method. The definition of this brand new class not only shows the logic that drives the Composite View pattern, but reveals how the pattern takes advantage of the benefits offered by Composition.
  - As its name suggests, the Composite View design pattern is a subtle variation of the “standard” Composite, which permits you to manipulate indiscriminately a single view object and a collection of them through the same interface. As with many other popular patterns, the implementation of Composite V...

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  Absolute Positioning in CSS: a Dynamic Menu

  Posted: August 23rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a three-part series on how to use absolute positioning in CSS you ll learn how to build an easily customizable drop-down menu with this frequently under-appreciated feature....
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  Using the SimplePie PHP Library to Build a Custom RSS Aggregator

  Fetched: August 19th, 2010, 11:32am MDT

  The powerful SimplePie PHP library makes building a rudimentary custom RSS aggregator easy.

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  Securing Your PHP Website

  Posted: August 19th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a three-part series on secure PHP programming, you'll learn how to hide the fact that you're using PHP to drive your site, how to hide sensitive data, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 21 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Hiding PHP You can also hide, or at least obscure, the fact that youre using PHP to drive your site. Use the expose_php directive to prevent PHP version details from being appended to your Web server signature. Block access to phpinfo() to prevent attackers from learning your software version numbe...

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  Google Revs App Engine for the Cloud

  Fetched: August 18th, 2010, 3:32pm MDT

  New version of App Engine improves multi-tenancy and adds a high-performance image serving system.
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  W3C Advances Web Font Standards

  Fetched: August 18th, 2010, 12:35pm MDT

  W3C's Web Open File Format standard for Web fonts nears completion, holding the potential to improve online typography for users of all major browsers.

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  Determine Link Relevance and Unique Class C IP using Yahoo Links API

  Posted: August 18th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  The Yahoo Site Explorer Inbound Links API comes in handy for a variety of purposes. You can get all sorts of data from it using PHP, from counting your backlinks to analyzing where they're coming from. This article will show you how to build a backlink checker tool that can do this and more.
  - This is the continuation of a series on the Yahoo Site Explorer Links API tutorial in PHP. It is suggested that you will read and understand the following tutorials if you are new to Yahoo Links API: Using the Yahoo Site Explorer Inbound Links API Getting Data from Yahoo Site Explorer Inbound ...

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  Google Ajax APIs: Building a Navigation Bar with the Easing jQuery Plug-in

  Posted: August 18th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  This is the final part of a six-part series that shows you how to use the various animation options of the Easing jQuery plug-in to make a navigation bar work properly. In this part we ll modify the bar so that its JavaScript dependencies can be downloaded from the cloud....
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  PHP Composite View Design Pattern: Introducing the Key Concepts

  Posted: August 17th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  The Composite View design pattern offers users the versatility of handling single objects and collections through the same interface. But some programmers hesitate to use it due to its tricky implementation. Hesitate no longer; this multi-part series will take you step by step through some of the best ways to use the Composite View design pattern, complete with code samples to show you the way.
  - Regardless of their specific implementation, which may vary from a programming language to another (and even across different applications), one additional advantage that design patterns offer is that their names give you a pretty clear idea of what they can be used for. Good examples of this can ...

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  CSS Absolute Positioning: Creating a Quick Search Form

  Posted: August 17th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second article of the series I cover in depth a use case where relative and absolute positioning can yield satisfactory results the implementation of a quick search form within the heading section of a web page. The driving logic of this approach is not difficult to grasp so you shouldn t have any major problems applying it when developing your own websites....
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  5 Developer Certifications That Are Worth It

  Fetched: August 16th, 2010, 6:31pm MDT

  Find out which certs offer developers the most professional relevance and career advancement potential.
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  Working with Java Threads Before and After JDK 5

  Fetched: August 16th, 2010, 1:32pm MDT

  Despite the new features and fine-grained control of the JDK1.5 threading framework, writing multithreaded Java applications remains challenging and error prone.

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  Facebook PHP API Applications: A Second Look

  Posted: August 16th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  This is the second part of the Facebook PHP API tutorial. The first part ran on August 11. It covered the most basic features, such as adding the basic Facebook “Like” button, the “Recommendations” plugin and registering your applications in Facebook to get an Application ID and Secret key. In this part, we'll delve deeper.
  - Specifically, we'll go into the details of basic PHP scripting for communicating with the API. After reading this tutorial, you can be confident of how to establish basic communication with the Facebook API, retrieve basic user information and then display that information on your website. The Ra...

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  Easing jQuery Plug-in: Using the easeOutBack Effect to Build a Navigation Bar

  Posted: August 16th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this penultimate installment of the series I show how simple it is to animate the links bar we ve been creating by using the easing options bundled with the Easing plug-in. In this article s example the animation is implemented via the easeOutBack effect but if you wish it s quite possible to use a different easing option and create interesting variations in a snap....
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  Secure PHP Programming

  Posted: August 12th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Long before a website goes live, you need to take its online security into consideration -- to be ready for the attackers even before they might gain access. This three-part article series will warn you of what to watch out for, particularly when configuring PHP, and help you to secure your website. It is excerpted from chapter 21 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Any Web site can be thought of as a castle under constant attack by a sea of barbarians. And as the history of both conventional and information warfare shows, often the attackers victory isnt entirely dependent upon their degree of skill or cunning, but rather on an oversight by the defenders. As k...

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  The Top 3 Project Challenges for Developers

  Fetched: August 11th, 2010, 8:32pm MDT

  A recent developer survey reveals the top three challenges that developers face on projects.

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  Facebook PHP API Applications: Basic Introduction

  Posted: August 11th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you are a PHP developer interested in learning the PHP API applications of Facebook, then this tutorial can help you get started. Keep reading and you'll soon know not only how to add Facebook features to your website, but how to develop your own Facebook applications.
  - Facebook API applications can be categorized into three broad features that can be implemented using an API in the PHP programming language. Integrating Facebook features, widgets and applications in your website (such as allowing your website users to log in using their Facebook account). In ge...

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  CSS: Building Tooltips with Absolute Positioning

  Posted: August 11th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  CSS lets you position items both relatively and absolutely on a web page. The use of relative positioning makes sense when your layouts need to be flexible to accommodate various browsers and hardware. But how useful is absolute positioning More than you might think....
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  SOAP Servers and Web Services

  Posted: August 10th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a five-part article series on Web Services, you'll learn how to create a SOAP server, add server functions, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 20 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Retrieving the Exposed Methods The __getFunctions() method returns an array consisting of all methods exposed by the service referenced by the SoapClient object. The prototype looks like this: array SoapClient- gt;__getFunctions() The following example establishes a connection to the box...

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  jQuery Easing Plug-in: Building a Navigation Bar using the easeOutElastic Effect

  Posted: August 10th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of a six-part series I show how to create a slightly different version of the previous navigation bar by using the easeOutElastic easing effect provided by the Easing plug-in. Achieving this is a straightforward process reduced to calling jQuery s animate method with the name of the effect to apply....
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  Combining Hibernate Cache and Ehcache for Better Java Scalability

  Fetched: August 9th, 2010, 2:32pm MDT

  Combine Hibernate second-level cache, Ehcache and Spring to greatly improve the scalability of your enterprise Java applications.

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  Using XPath, SOAP, and More with Web Services

  Posted: August 9th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of a five-part series on Web Services, you'll learn about SimpleXML objects, SOAP, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 20 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Creating XML from a SimpleXML Object The asXML() method returns a well-formed XML 1.0 string based on the SimpleXML object. Its prototype follows: string simplexml_element- gt;asXML() An example follows: lt;?php $xml = simplexml_load_file( quot;books.xml quot;); echo...

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  Secure Application Deployment with Ruby on Rails

  Posted: August 9th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a five-part series on deploying an ecommerce application with Ruby on Rails you will learn how to configure access to the application so that it is properly secured and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Pessimistic Locking in JPA 2 and Hibernate

  Fetched: August 6th, 2010, 3:32pm MDT

  JPA version 2 and Hibernate both support pessimistic locking for Java concurrency control, but not in the same way.

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  Installing the Database for Application Deployment

  Posted: August 6th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a multi-part article series you ll learn how to install various parts of an application in preparation for deploying it online. This article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Web Services: SimpleXML

  Posted: August 5th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a five-part series on Web Services, we'll wrap up our discussion of MagpieRSS and move on to SimpleXML, an intuitive methodology for processing XML structures. This article is excerpted from chapter 20 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Limiting the Number of Displayed Headlines Some Web site developers are so keen on RSS that they wind up dumping quite a bit of information into their published feeds. However, you might be interested in viewing only the most recent items and ignoring the rest. Because Magpie relies heavily on s...

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  Application Deployment

  Posted: August 5th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Before an application can make it onto the Internet it needs to go into a production environment and be deployed. This multi-part article series will show you how to do this for the Ruby-on-Rails ecommerce application we ve been working on. It is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Bean Validation in Hibernate and JPA 2

  Fetched: August 4th, 2010, 3:32pm MDT

  Learn how Hibernate Validator handles Bean validation, and how you can implement it in Hibernate and JPA 2.

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  Configure Wine Ubuntu For Running Windows Based Games

  Posted: August 4th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you've come to Linux Ubuntu from Windows, you probably left behind a few favorite computer games. You may already know that Wine can help you play them again; in some cases, however, the solution is less than perfect.That's where this tutorial can help.
  - There are times when, as a Linux user who does not have a Windows-based operating system installed, you would like to play your favorite Windows game in a Linux environment using Wine. Sadly, in most cases, the game will run under less optimal/desirable conditions than when it is executed under Wi...

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  Easing jQuery Plug-In: Fixing Access Issues with Progressive Enhancement

  Posted: August 4th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third installment of a series I demonstrate how the proper use of Progressive Enhancement can be of great help in increasing the accessibility of the sample navigation bar built previously. Implementing this approach means that the bar will remain completely functional even if JavaScript is disabled on the browser....
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  Is Ubuntu Contributing as Much as It Should to Free Software Projects?

  Fetched: August 3rd, 2010, 10:32pm MDT

  The dispute over this issue reflects a clash of changing values about the future of open source.

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  Install Joomla on Ubuntu

  Posted: August 3rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Joomla is an award-winning open source CMS that lets you create “business” or professional-looking websites directly from scratch. Contrast this with WordPress, which by default is a blogging platform and gives websites the appearance of a blog after installation. By the end of this tutorial, you will know how to install a fully running Joomla website directly from scratch using the Linux Ubuntu/XAMPP web server.
  - Joomla runs optimally in Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMPP configuration), the same configuration used by WordPress. Joomla web development starts in the local host environment. The purpose of this tutorial is to cover the details of installing Joomla in the Linux Ubuntu operating system using XAMPP lo...

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  Easing jQuery Plug-in: Implementing the Behavior Layer on a Navigation Bar

  Posted: August 3rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a series I show how to use the Easing jQuery plug-in to animate the subsections of the navigation bar built in the preceding tutorial. In this case the easing effect we ll apply to the bar s subsection is called easeOutBounce but it s possible to use others check the plug-in s official documentation for more information on how to accomplish this....
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  Improve PHP Captcha with Optical Character Recognition Tests

  Posted: August 2nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you're working on a captcha system for your PHP-based website, you may be faced with an interesting challenge. How do you make your system too hard for spam bots to read, but not too hard for humans? This is especially worrying in the wake of bots that can harness OCR for reading captchas. This article explains how to increase the difficulty of a captcha system and test it to make sure it meets your requirements.
  - There are many standard captcha solutions available that will work with PHP, including reCaptcha and Asirra captcha. However, some PHP developers might need to work on their own captcha solution. They can gain overall flexibility and total control of the captcha solution. It also helps the PHP ...

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  jQuery Easing Plug-in: Building an Animated Navigation Bar

  Posted: August 2nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  When you re trying to develop a navigation bar you need to balance two requirements. The bar needs to be accessible to as many users as possible but many site owners and developers like the look of an animated navigation bar -- which by its very nature is less accessible. But if you use the Easing plug-in available in the jQuery framework you can have your cake and eat it too. This first part of a series on the plug-in will show you how....
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  Google Hacking Evolves for Defense

  Fetched: August 1st, 2010, 10:32pm MDT

  New tools announced at Black Hat will enable Google and Bing search queries for security vulnerability detection.
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  10 Experimental PHP Projects Pushing the Envelope

  Fetched: July 30th, 2010, 11:32am MDT

  These 10 PHP development projects prove that experimentation in the PHP community is as strong as ever.

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  Recording Acceptance Tests

  Posted: July 30th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a three-part article series on acceptance testing with Ruby on Rails you ll learn how to use the Selenium IDE and how and why to record the results of your acceptance tests. This article is excerpted from chapter 11 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Configuring Hibernate for a Java Servlet Application

  Fetched: July 29th, 2010, 4:32pm MDT

  Learn how to configure Hibernate for a Java Servlet-based application to persist a desired class.

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  Web Services: MagpieRSS

  Posted: July 29th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a five-part series on Web Services, you will learn how to install and use MagpieRSS, a popular RSS parser. This article is excerpted from chapter 20 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - MagpieRSS MagpieRSS (Magpie for short) is a powerful RSS parser written in PHP by Kellan Elliott-McCrea. Its freely available for download via [magpierss.sourceforge.net] and is distributed under the GPL license. Magpie offers developers an amazingly practical and easy means for retrieving...

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  Commands for Acceptance Testing

  Posted: July 29th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a three-part article series on acceptance testing with Ruby on Rails you will learn the various commands that are performed during this process and start your first acceptance test. This article is excerpted from chapter 11 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Asirra Captcha PHP Integration

  Posted: July 28th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Asirra (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access) is a captcha technology developed by Microsoft. This article will explain how it's different from other captcha systems, the benefits of using Asirra, and how to set it up on your PHP-based website.
  - Unlike other types of captcha that utilize difficult text obfuscation techniques (such as Google reCaptcha), this system utilizes images of dogs and cats, such as those shown in the screen shot below: The following are the main benefits of using the Asirra captcha system: 1. It is very...

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  Dynamic Drop-down Menus: Javascript Progressive Enhancement

  Posted: July 28th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a nine-part series on Progressive Enhancement we ll take the drop-down menu that we designed in the previous part and make its behavior dynamic with the addition of jQuery s animate method. Users with JavaScript disabled on their browsers however will still be able to make complete use of the menu....
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  PHP Excel Implementation in XAMPP Localhost

  Posted: July 27th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you are planning to use PHP to create and interact with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application, then you can use the PHP Excel class. It can be a little tricky to use, however, especially for beginners. This tutorial will walk you through the basics and show you how to customize it for your own Excel implementation.
  - The class is complex, and sometimes getting started on the basics is hard, because PHPExcel is a complete class that interacts not only with MS Excel but with other formats such as PDF, CSV and the OpenDocument Spreadsheet. The documentation included by the developers is broad, and does not cover...

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  Creating Drop-down Menus Using Progressive Enhancement

  Posted: July 27th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this penultimate installment of the series I develop a hierarchical drop-down menu which will use the capabilities offered by jQuery to expand and contract its subsections. Since the entire building process follows the model imposed by Progressive Enhancement the menu will be completely functional even though it currently lacks for reasons that will become obvious truly dynamic behavior....
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  PHP: Creating Word Documents without .COM Objects

  Posted: July 26th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you are looking for a solution to create MS Word documents without the use of .COM objects, then this tutorial will be helpful. In it, you will learn how to build an actual PHP application that can convert a .txt file into a .doc file online.
  - Important Requirements Before you implement this application in your own test server, bear in mind that this was tested to work on the following setup: PHP Version: 5.2.5 Server: Apache OS: Linux MS Word version: MS Word 2002 You will need the following PHP functions/components to ma...

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  Building Slide Shows Using Progressive Enhancement

  Posted: July 26th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this seventh part of the series I develop a jQuery-driven slide show which uses the Cycle plug-in for performing the transitions between the sample images. While the fancy zooming effect applied to the images is carried out by the plug-in it s worth noting that the images will remain visible even if the web page is displayed with JavaScript disabled. This demonstrates yet another case where Progressive Enhancement is applied with satisfying results....
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  Acceptance Testing

  Posted: July 23rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you ve built a complicated application and you want to make sure it works you perform acceptance testing. This three-part article series will show you how to automate the process. It is excerpted from chapter 11 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Inside Facebook's Open Source Infrastructure

  Fetched: July 22nd, 2010, 6:32pm MDT

  How does Facebook deliver social networking to 500 million people? It takes a whole lot of storage and some open source goodness.
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  The Android Mobile Development Platform: A Reference Guide

  Fetched: July 22nd, 2010, 12:58pm MDT

  Here's everything you need to know to begin developing applications on the Android platform.

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  Web Services

  Posted: July 22nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  This five-part article series will introduce you to Web Services. If you've ever wanted to incorporate them into your web sites, this is a good place to start. This article is excerpted from chapter 20 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - This chapter discusses some of the more applicable implementations of Web Services technologies and shows you how to use PHP to start incorporating them into your Web application development strategy right now. To accomplish this goal without actually turning this chapter into a book unto itself, th...

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  Checkout and Order Processing: the User Side

  Posted: July 22nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a five-part article series on adding checkout and order processing capabilities to an ecommerce website with Ruby on Rails you will learn how to add the close order user story which involves adding the ability to calculate shipping costs and other details. This article is excerpted from chapter nine of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  The 5 Developer Certifications You'll Wish You Had in 2015

  Fetched: July 21st, 2010, 10:32pm MDT

  Predicting which IT certifications will be valuable in the future is never easy, but these five certs show promise for tomorrow.

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  Registry Design Pattern: Complete Implementation

  Posted: July 21st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Welcome to the conclusion of a three-part article series that shows you how to implement the Registry design pattern in PHP. In this part, we'll take all the classes that we've created so far and put them to work together.
  - So, if you're a PHP developer who wants to expand your current programming skills by learning how to implement the Registry design pattern in a few simple steps without having to deal with obscure and hard-to-grasp concepts, then you've come to the right place. And now that you know what to expect...

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  Form Validation with Progressive Enhancement: Final Touches

  Posted: July 21st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this sixth part of a series I finish building a sample web application tasked with validating web forms via Ajax and PHP. The use of Progressive Enhancement is crucial to keeping the application working as expected even if JavaScript is disabled on the browser....
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  PHP Form to Text File: the Basics

  Posted: July 20th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  This is a basic tutorial on the application of PHP to get text information from a web form and write it to a text file.
  - This article will illustrate a number of features to be included in this application which are useful in actual project implementations, such as: Restriction of user input to text while blocking unwanted and malicious form inputs. Limiting the number of words of input that can be written to ...

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  Validating Web Forms: an Introduction to Progressive Enhancement

  Posted: July 20th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fifth part of the series I partially create another situation where Progressive Enhancement can be applied successfully. In this case we ll look at validating data entered into a web form. Due to the focus of this article the example will not include the PHP file responsible for performing the actual validation process that file will be covered in the next part....
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  Criteria Queries in JPA 2.0 and Hibernate: The APIs Have It

  Fetched: July 19th, 2010, 5:31pm MDT

  Developer-friendly query languages and API sets are the heart of criteria queries features in JPA 2.0 and Hibernate.

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  Session Handler with the Registry Design Pattern

  Posted: July 19th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a series, I demonstrate how easy it is to define a session-based registry class based on the abstract parent created in the first tutorial. The straightforward creation process means you shouldnt have major problems building your own registry classes or even improving the ones that you've learned so far in this series.
  - Even now, many PHP developers are reluctant to implement the registry design pattern. Using the pattern seems similar to using the quot;evil quot; and deprecated global variables. But the truth is that, when used in a conscientious and responsible manner, the pattern can be really helpful. Its ...

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  Ajax Progressive Enhancement: Reading Remote Files

  Posted: July 19th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of a series I show another real-world example of the use of Progressive Enhancement in combination with PHP and Ajax. This example allows users to read the contents of a file and display them on screen regardless of whether they have enabled JavaScript on the browser. In this particular case the data is fetched from a simple text file but it s possible to use any popular RDBMS instead....
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  Will the New Perl Development Kit Bring Developers to the New Perl?

  Fetched: July 16th, 2010, 5:32pm MDT

  Perl 5.12 has been out since April, and now new tools are coming to market to help developers make use of the open source language. Will it matter? Is anyone actually using Perl 5.12 yet?

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  Checkout and Order Processing: the Administrative Side

  Posted: July 16th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of a five-part series that shows you how to add checkout and order processing capabilities to an ecommerce application based on Ruby-on-Rails you ll learn how to integrate a PayPal alternative build the administrative user interface and more. This article is excerpted from chapter nine of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Strings: Trimming and Counting

  Posted: July 15th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a five-part series on strings and regular expressions in PHP, you'll learn about padding and stripping a string, trimming characters from a string, counting the characters in a string, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter nine of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Padding and Stripping a String For formatting reasons, you sometimes need to modify the string length via either padding or stripping characters. PHP provides a number of functions for doing so. This section examines many of the commonly used functions. Trimming Characters from the Beginning o...

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  Online Order Processing: Using PayPal

  Posted: July 15th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a five-part series on building the checkout and order processing components of an ecommerce website with Ruby-on-Rails we ll focus on integrating PayPal into the application s capabilities. This article is excerpted from chapter nine of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  CouchDB Hits 1.0 with Open Source NoSQL for Windows, Too

  Fetched: July 14th, 2010, 4:32pm MDT

  First production-ready milestone of the CouchDB open source NoSQL database is released, providing stability and performance gains for developers and users.

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  Registry Design Pattern

  Posted: July 14th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this first part of a series, I provide a basic introduction to implementing the registry design pattern in PHP. I'll define a simple hierarchy of classes comprised of an abstract registry, and a concrete implementation of it, which uses a private array to save and fetch resources across different points of an application.
  - Design patterns are well-trusted and reusable paradigms that allow you to solve common problems present in software development. This is not the only benefit to using design patterns. Many design patterns have intuitive names that permit you to grasp fairly easily what they do or what kind of iss...

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  Ajax Image Requests: Progresive Enhancement Techniques

  Posted: July 14th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a series I will show you how to build a revamped version of the image gallery created in earlier tutorials. This time it combines the functionality of Progressive Enhancement Ajax and PHP to fetch images from the web server....
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  Add Refactoring to Your PHP Development with MySQL Stored Procedures and Views

  Fetched: July 13th, 2010, 6:32pm MDT

  Integrating MySQL stored procedures and views into your PHP development can go a long way towards separating web site logic from the domain model.

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  Create Picture IDs with Name Tags Using PHP

  Posted: July 13th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  PHP can be used to write text to images or even merge a source image to a target image. With this concept, it is possible to create open source ID creation software. The ID can contain a picture of a person and a name tag written in text (or even include an ID number). Keep reading to learn how this can be done.
  - To develop and use this application, you will need to have the following: An ID image template - This will contain a company logo and the text input fields. See sample screen shot below: The picture of the person can be inserted/merged into the spacious area at the right of the image ID ...

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  jQuery Image Gallery: Working with Progressive Enhancement

  Posted: July 13th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of the series I redefine from scratch the behavioral layer of the image gallery built in the previous article. In this case the layer is implemented with jQuery but naturally it s possible to use the JavaScript library that best suits your needs and get the same results....
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  Simple User Authentication with Apache and MySQL

  Fetched: July 12th, 2010, 4:31pm MDT

  Need a simple way to manage access to your Web content? The open source Apache Web server and MySQL database have everything you need.

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  PHP MVC Framework: the Cache Class

  Posted: July 12th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Welcome to the final installment of a series that shows you how to build a simple MVC-based framework in PHP 5. This series walks you in a step-by-step fashion through the development of a stack of reusable components, which can be easily put to work together under a strict MVC-based layer.
  - Learning how to implement the Model-View-Controller design pattern within a real-world project can be of great help in sharpening the skills of any web developer who wants to be in touch with modern software programming trends. So, if youre a PHP coder who wants to grasp the key concepts that sur...

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  Progressive Enhancement in an Image Gallery

  Posted: July 12th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this first part of a series I introduce you to the concept of Progressive Enhancement and show you how to implement it in a basic image gallery. PE can help you build websites that are accessible to the largest possible number of users. Its principles and approach which you ll learn from the real-world example created in this series belong in every website developer s repetoire....
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  Order and Payment Handling for an Ecommerce Website

  Posted: July 9th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a five-part series on building the checkout and order processing parts of an ecommerce application in Ruby on Rails you ll learn how to save order information integrate with payment gateways and more. This article is excerpted from chapter nine of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Does Python 2.7's Release Mean the End of the Line for Python 2.x?

  Fetched: July 8th, 2010, 5:32pm MDT

  The final Python 2.x release is now available, but does that mean developers need to jump to Python 3.x now?

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  Parsing Strings and Regular Expressions

  Posted: July 8th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of a five-part series on strings and regular expressions in PHP, you'll learn how to perform complex string parsing, find the last occurrence of a string, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter nine of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Converting an Array into a String Just as you can use the explode() function to divide a delimited string into various array elements, you concatenate array elements to form a single delimited string using the implode() function. Its prototype follows: string implode(string delimiter, ar...

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  Checkout and Order Processing for an Ecommerce Website

  Posted: July 8th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  It s vital for an ecommerce website to get the checkout and ordering process correct. This five-part article series shows you how to use Ruby-on-Rails to manage it with very little difficulty. It s excerpted from chapter nine of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  PHP MVC Frameworks: Building View Files

  Posted: July 7th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this next-to-last part of the series, I finish building a MySQL-driven application that uses the functionality of the framework we've created to perform CRUD operations on a database table populated with user-related data.
  - Learning how to successfully implement a number of design patterns is definitely a great idea for PHP coders whose main goal is to develop solid and efficient web applications. This includes using the popular Model-View-Controller triad, or expressed in programming jargon, the MVC pattern. True ...

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  Google Font API: Requesting a Bold Font Style Using a Numeric Notation

  Posted: July 7th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you re a web designer who wants to take full advantage of the functionality offered by the brand new web service implemented by Google that is the already popular Font API then this article series might be the material that you re looking for. It shows you how to work with the API s most relevant features. In this ninth and final article of the series you ll learn another way to get the bold version of a font....
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  Oracle Commits to Further NetBeans IDE Development

  Fetched: July 6th, 2010, 5:31pm MDT

  With both the Eclipse IDE and NetBeans IDE, Oracle is aiming to grow its Java developer ecosystem.

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  Completing an MVC-Based Framework's Controller Class

  Posted: July 6th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this twelfth part of the series I finish building the controller class that permits you to run CRUD operations against the pertinent “users” MySQL table. This class uses the model to interface with the data layer, the input class to filter incoming data, and the view class to display output on the browser. This process demonstrates the real functionality of the MVC framework developed in previous tutorials.
  - Any PHP coder who wants to build thorough, scalable web applications must understand how to implement certain design patterns. This doesnt mean that mastering these patterns will guarantee writing bullet-proof code that scales well in different contexts. But, as the web continues to evolve, desig...

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  Google Font API: Using the Bi Shorthand

  Posted: July 6th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this penultimate part of the series I take a detailed look at the bi shorthand included with the Google Font API. It can be used as a replacement for the bolditalic option covered in a previous article. Since the function of the suffix bi is nothing but to query the API using a shorter and more compact syntax its implementation should be extremely straightforward....
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  Scala vs. F#, Round 2: Application Programming Features

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  How do Scala and F# compare when it comes to application development features such as frameworks, object orientation, and runtime properties?
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  Yahoo Tightens Up Hadoop for Security, Workflow Management

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  Continued investment in Hadoop includes Kerberos authentication and Oozie workflow engine for "big data" jobs.
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  Video: Storing Blobs in Microsoft Azure with the Zend Framework

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  Learn the fundamentals behind storing BLOBs within the Windows Azure cloud using the Zend Framework's Zend_Service_WindowsAzure component.
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  Generating Open Flash Charts from Rails Application Data

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  Use an Open Flash Charts plugin for Rails that uses JSON to convert values from a database into Flash objects.
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  7 Popular Open Source Projects for .NET Developers

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  Get an introduction to seven open source solutions embraced by millions of .NET developers around the globe.

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  Getting Text and Currency Working for Multiple Language Support

  Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a four-part article series on adding support for multiple languages to a Ruby-on-Rails ecomerce application you will learn how to localize numbers and currency set character encoding and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 1 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Converting Strings and Regular Expressions

  Posted: July 1st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a five-part series on strings and regular expressions in PHP, you will learn how to convert strings to and from HTML, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter nine of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Converting Strings to and from HTML Converting a string or an entire file into a form suitable for viewing on the Web (and vice versa) is easier than you would think. Several functions are suited for such tasks, all of which are introduced in this section. Converting Newline Characters to HTML...

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  Translating a Site for Multiple Language Support

  Posted: July 1st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third article in a four-part series on adding support for multiple languages to a Ruby-on-Rails ecomerce application you will learn how to add a translation to a site edit the translation and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 1 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Adding More Methods to the Controller Class of an MVC-Based Framework

  Posted: June 30th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this eleventh part of the series, I expand the initial functionality of the user controller class defined previously by adding two simple methods to it. These allow it to create new users in the associated MySQL table.
  - If you're a PHP coder who wants to learn how to use the Model-View-Controller design pattern to develop an extensible framework in a few simple steps, then you've come to the right place. This series of articles guides you through the construction of a stack of reusable components, which can be put...

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  Going Global with Multiple Language Support

  Posted: June 30th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a four-part article series on adding support for multiple languages to a Ruby-on-Rails ecomerce application you will learn how to use Globalize to add this important capability. This article is excerpted from chapter 1 of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Adding a Controller Class to an MVC-Based Framework in PHP 5

  Posted: June 29th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this tenth part of the series, I start building a basic MySQL-driven application whose main tasks consist of selecting, inserting, updating and deleting records on some hypothetical users by means of the framework we've built.
  - As you know, in the last few years the proliferation of PHP frameworks on the web has been so rapid and vast that now a PHP developer has a plethora of options to choose from. While some frameworks that are more popular than others, all of them try to make PHP programmers' lives much easier by ...

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  Working with the Google Font API`s bolditalic Argument

  Posted: June 29th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this seventh part of the series I demonstrate how to work with the bolditalic argument included with Google s Font API. The use of the argument is very similar to its counterparts italic and bold discussed in previous articles so understanding its underlying logic is truly a breeze....
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  Creating a Model Class for an MVC-based Framework

  Posted: June 28th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this ninth part of the series, I add an extensible model class to the framework. This class can be used for running CRUD operations against a selected MySQL database table.
  - Learning how to implement the Model-View-Controller design pattern is one of those things that you, as a PHP programmer, will have to face sooner or later, especially if you want to follow modern web development approaches. The good news is that the learning process doesnt have to be boring. It'...

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  Displaying Bold Text with the Google Font API`s b Shorthand

  Posted: June 28th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this sixth part of the series you will learn how to work with the b shorthand offered by the Google Font API which can be used as a quick replacement for the bold option discussed in a previous part. The shorthand offers nothing especially difficult to grasp so you shouldn t have any problem using it when embedding bold fonts in your own X HTML documents....
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  Functions of Strings and Regular Expressions

  Posted: June 24th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a five-part series on strings and regular expressions in PHP, you'll learn about regular expression functions and a variety of string-specific functions. This article is excerpted from chapter nine of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - PHPs Regular Expression Functions (Perl Compatible) PHP offers seven functions for searching strings using Perl-compatible regular expressions: preg_grep() , preg_match() , preg_match_all() , preg_quote() , preg_replace() , preg_replace_callback() , and preg_split() . These functio...
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  Dealing with Views in an MVC-based Framework in PHP 5

  Posted: June 23rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this eighth part of the series, I add to our example MVC-based framework another crucial component. In this case, it's a class that parses data usually injected from a controller and rendered in the form of HTML pages.
  - As you may know, the Model-View-Controller design pattern has become one of the most widely-adopted standards for developing web programs that maintain application and business logic isolated from visual presentation. This structural pattern has gained remarkable popularity, especially with PHP ...
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  Developing a Caching Class for an MVC-based Framework in PHP 5

  Posted: June 22nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this seventh part of the series, I add a cache class to the classes that comprise the MVC-based framework we're building. The new class uses the file system as the underlying backend for caching data, but its also possible to create one that caches data on shared memory, a SQLite database and so forth. Indeed, numerous possibilities exist.
  - Without a doubt, the Model-View-Controller design pattern is one of the most useful approaches these days for developing web applications that keep their business and application logic isolated (at least partially) from visual presentation. As a PHP developer, you may already have mastered the ...
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  Finishing a Form Helper Class for an MVC-based Framework in PHP 5

  Posted: June 21st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this sixth part of the series, I finish building a basic HTML form helper class. Doing this adds yet another important component to the sample MVC-driven framework we're developing in this group of tutorials.
  - If youre a PHP developer who wishes to learn how to develop an extensible framework that relies on the structure of the Model-View-Controller design pattern to separate business and application logic from visual presentation, then you've come to the right place. Welcome to the sixth installment ...
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  Strings and Regular Expressions

  Posted: June 17th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Strings and regular expressions are among the basic tools that help programmers get their jobs done. This five-part article series covers how these are used in PHP. It is excerpted from chapter nine of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Programmers build applications that are based on established rules regarding the classification, parsing, storage, and display of information, whether that information consists of gourmet recipes, store sales receipts, poetry, or some other collection of data. This chapter introduces many of the PHP...
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  Using PHP to Generate a Customized Google XML Sitemap

  Posted: June 16th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Submitting XML sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools is an important webmaster activity. Google recommends using it to help it find new content in your website which otherwise cannot be crawled by Googlebot. This is particularly helpful if you have a fairly large website. In this article, you'll learn how to generate such a sitemap with PHP.
  - If you are new to XML sitemaps or need more information about Google XML sitemap generation, you should read this tutorial before going any further. This tutorial helps you develop your own PHP-based Google XML Sitemap generator. This is a customized approach, which means that you can feed the ap...
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  Adding a Form Helper to an MVC-based Framework in PHP 5

  Posted: June 15th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fifth episode of the series, I start building an HTML form helper class to add to this sample MVC framework the ability to render some basic form elements.
  - Since the web is in constant evolution, developing applications for it often requires mastering different disciplines that range from using client-side technologies such as (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript, to working with server-side languages like PHP, Ruby and SQL, among others. While all of these t...
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  Sanitizing User Input for an MVC-based Framework in PHP 5

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of the series, I show you how to provide this sample MVC-driven framework with the ability to sanitize user input by way of a basic input class.
  - As you may know, the Model-View-Controller design pattern is one of the most popular standards used nowadays for building web programs that keep business and application logic isolated from visual presentation. The great news about this structural paradigm is that you, as a PHP developer, can also ...
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  Completing Regular Expression Basics

  Posted: June 10th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a four-part series on parsing and regular expression basics in Perl, we finish our study of regular expressions; you'll even learn how to create your own. This article is excerpted from chapter one of the book Pro Perl Parsing, written by Christopher M. Frenz (Apress; ISBN: 1590595041).
  - Regexp::Common::Comments This module generates regular expressions that match comments inserted into computer code written in a variety of programming languages (currently 43). The syntax to call these regular expressions is as follows, where refers to the base comment matching functionality and...

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  Isolating Locale-specific Text in International Java Applications

  Fetched: June 9th, 2010, 7:32pm MDT

  Learn how to isolate locale-specific text in international Java applications using ResourceBundles and Properties files.

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  Abstracting Access to MySQL for an MVC-Based Framework in PHP 5

  Posted: June 9th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of the series, I further enhance the functionality of this sample MVC framework by adding a class to it that takes care of interacting with MySQL in a simple manner. Youll see the importance of this abstraction class when I show you the definition of the corresponding model, which will aggregate an instance of “MySQL” to handle the data layer very easily.
  - Despite how intimidating this task may sound to you, building a framework in PHP 5 that follows the structure imposed by the Model-View-Controller design pattern is much easier than you may think. So, if youre interested in learning the key concepts that surround this process, either for building...

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  Preparing to Add Tagging Support

  Posted: June 9th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a four-part series on how to add tagging support to an ecommerce website using Ruby on Rails you ll learn what modifications you need to make so that items in your system can be tagged without breaking things. This article is excerpted from chapter seven of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Developing the Router/Dispatcher Class for a Simple MVC-based Framework in PHP 5

  Posted: June 8th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of the series, I add another crucial component to this example MVC-driven framework. It's a basic router/dispatcher class. While the incorporation of this brand new module turns the framework into a more functional piece of code, there are other components that still need to be developed.
  - Given the huge number of MVC-driven PHP frameworks available these days, which come loaded with lots of powerful features aimed at speeding up the development of web applications, its fair to think that building software packages like these may be a difficult and demanding task. While this is und...

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  Tagging Support

  Posted: June 8th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you re building an ecommerce website that sells a number of different kinds of goods you might want to institute tagging. This mainstay of many Internet sites makes it easier to categorize items and can assist your visitors in finding what they re looking for. This four-part article series shows you how to add tagging support to your site using Ruby on Rails. This article is excerpted from chapter seven of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Eclipse Community Survey Shows Open Source Dev Trends

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  Linux gaining tractions as a development platform, but it still lags behind Windows.

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  Building a Simple MVC-based Framework in PHP 5

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this first part of a series, I develop the first module of a model-view-controller (MVC) driven framework, which happens to be a front controller. By combining this component and a basic .htaccess file, its possible to route all HTTP requests to the (still-undefined) dispatcher class.
  - As you may know, one of the most popular approaches that can be taken for speeding up the development of PHP applications without having to start coding them from scratch is using either a proprietary or a third-party framework. Yes, nowadays PHP frameworks are available in so many flavors and sizes...

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  Building a Drop-Down Menu with the HoverIntent jQuery Plug-in

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this final part of a six-part series on using the hoverIntent jQuery plug-in you will learn how to easily implement delayed rollovers on your web pages as part of a larger drop-down menu. As you ll see such rollovers are in general more accessible than the ones created using a standard approach....
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  10 Git Tips and Tricks for Beginners

  Fetched: June 4th, 2010, 3:32pm MDT

  Making the switch from the CVS or Subversion version control system to Git? These 10 pointers will make for a smooth transition.

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  Finishing a Shopping Cart Implementation

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a two-part series on implementing a shopping cart for an online bookstore we ll create a floating cart that will show its contents to the user and set up its capabilities. This article is excerpted from chapter five of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  PHP Remains Strong Despite Security Flaws

  Fetched: June 3rd, 2010, 4:32pm MDT

  Over 60 bugs were reported in PHP in May, should PHP users and developers be worried?

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  Modifiers, Boundaries, and Regular Expressions

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part to a four-part series on parsing and regular expressions in Perl, you will learn about cloistered pattern modifiers, boundary assertions, troubleshooting regular expressions, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter one of the book Pro Perl Parsing, written by Christopher M. Frenz (Apress; ISBN: 1590595041).
  - Cloistered Pattern Modifiers In the previous section, you saw how to apply pattern modifiers to an entire regular expression. It is also possible to apply these modifiers to just a portion of a given regular expression; however, the syntax is somewhat different. The first step is to define the s...

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  Using All of the HoverIntent jQuery Plug-in`s Options

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this penultimate chapter of the series you will learn how to implement a basic rollover by using all of the parameters accepted by the hoverIntent plug-in at the same time. Even though you ll probably want to assign custom values to fewer arguments I believe that building a fully-tweaked rollover is an educational and fun experience....
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  10 Easy String Manipulation Solutions for Your PHP Development

  Fetched: June 2nd, 2010, 6:32pm MDT

  Choosing the best string manipulation function for your PHP development task can be a chore. Here are the ideal solutions to 10 common string-related tasks.

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  Plan a Good Database

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Organize a collection of data somehow for later usage and you will get a database. In the last couple of years, with the spread of the Internet, databases have become something you will come across everywhere on the World Wide Web. Most websites have a strong database behind them. With this phase of the web's evolution, if you work in software development, eventually you will need to create and plan a database from scratch. This article is here to teach you and show you what traits a solid plan should have.
  - To start, we need to separate the concept of data and information. While in the everyday usage these two merge, in the world of databases these are two very separate things. Data is the representation of facts/concepts of stuff that is adequate for human or automatic (by a machine) processing. The i...

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  Controlling Mouseout Events with HoverIntent`s Timeout Argument

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth installment of the series you will learn how to further customize the behavior of the hoverIntent jQuery plug-in by tweaking its timeout argument. This parameter can be used for assigning different delays to mouseout events which can help you build more usable and accessible rollovers....
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  Zen Coding and the Art of Rapid HTML Authoring

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  The powerful new Zen Coding IDE plugin allows developers to write HTML with blazing speed.

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  New Open Source Update Fedora 13 is Released to the Public

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  The open source community has a new tool to tinker with thanks to the release of Fedora 13 from the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is a group dedicated to bringing free open source software to the public. They are continuing to do so with this current release, which comes just half a year after the release of Fedora 12.
  - Fedora 13 is the latest edition of the free Linux-based operating system from the group. Anyone can download and use the operating system. They are also free to modify it to their needs and distribute it as they see fit. Fedora 13 is just the latest way that the Fedora Project encourages the innovat...

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  Using the Interval Argument of the HoverIntent jQuery Plug-in

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of the series you will learn how to modify the default polling interval of hoverIntent by means of the interval option. The straightforward process means you shouldn t have major trouble using this argument when coding your own delayed rollovers....
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  Android 2.2 and Its Previous Versions: A Sweet Developer Review

  Fetched: May 28th, 2010, 2:31pm MDT

  Two veteran mobile app developers compare Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) with older versions and highlight the areas where the platform has grown the most.

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  Shopping Cart Implementation

  Posted: May 28th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Continuing our series on setting up an online bookstore with Ruby-on-Rails this two-part tutorial explains how to implement the shopping cart. It is excerpted from chapter five of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Quantifiers and Other Regular Expression Basics

  Posted: May 27th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a four-part series on parsing and regular expression basics in Perl, you'll learn about quantifiers, modifiers, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter one of the book Pro Perl Parsing, written by Christopher M. Frenz (Apress; ISBN: 1590595041).
  - Quantifiers As you saw in the previous section, you can create a simple regular expression by simply putting the characters or the name of a variable containing the characters you seek to match between a pair of forward slashes. However, suppose you want to match the same sequence of characters ...

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  Tweaking the Sensitivity of the HoverIntent jQuery Plug-in

  Posted: May 27th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of the series you ll learn how to customize the default behavior of the hoverIntent jQuery plug-in by means of its sensitivity parameter. Thus you ll be able to create different delayed rollovers in a truly simple fashion....
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  Dynamic Open Source Languages Head to the Cloud

  Fetched: May 26th, 2010, 5:32pm MDT

  New study shows that dynamic language developers are increasingly looking to cloud-based deployments.
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  10 Simple Security Tasks for Locking Down Your LAMP Website

  Fetched: May 26th, 2010, 1:31pm MDT

  These 10 powerful security procedures will help protect your Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP-driven website against common attacks.

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  A Final Example of Late Static Bindings in PHP 5.3

  Posted: May 26th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Late Static Bindings (LSB), a powerful feature bundled with PHP 5.3, are much easier to master than you might think. Achieving intimate knowledge of them requires only an average background in working with objects and classes. This article concludes a six-part series that shows you what you can do with LSB.
  - So, if you're a developer interested in grasping the key concepts that surround the implementation of LSB, then I recommend you start reading this article series right now. Through its tutorials you'll learn how to take advantage of the functionality offered by LSB to create flexible hierarchies ...

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  Introducing the HoverIntent jQuery Plug-in

  Posted: May 26th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this first part of a series I introduce you to using the hoverIntent jQuery plug-in for creating delayed rollovers in a truly painless fashion. If you re familiar with the basics of jQuery then getting the plug-in up and running even without checking its official documentation is a breeze....
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  Factoring (X)HTML Objects with Late Static Bindings in PHP 5.3

  Posted: May 25th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fifth part of a six-part series on late static bindings, I define some sample classes which are responsible for creating some block-level (X)HTML objects, such as simple divs and paragraphs. Once we get these classes up and running, we'll be ready to test the factories created in the previous part and see if theyre actually as functional as they look.
  - As youll possibly know, PHP 5.3 includes, among a few other useful things, a new feature called Late Static Bindings (LSB). It comes in handy for resolving at runtime from which class a given static method has been called. Even though this major release of the language also offers a solid support fo...

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  Setting up Posting for a Forum Implementation

  Posted: May 25th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a four-part series on implementing a forum with Ruby on Rails we ll finish setting up the part of the forum that allows users to view entries and add the sections that let them make and reply to posts. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Top 10 Android 2.2 Features Developers Can't Wait to Use

  Fetched: May 24th, 2010, 1:31pm MDT

  Android 2.2 (Froyo) provides developers with some much-anticipated features for a minor SDK release. Here are the top ten features developers cannot wait to get their hands on.

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  Late Static Bindings in PHP 5.3 with the Abstract Factory Pattern

  Posted: May 24th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of the series, I demonstrate how Late Static Bindings can be useful for implementing the abstract factory design pattern. The feature will be used at the instance level within the constructor of an abstract factory class, where at least one of its concrete implementations is tasked with factoring a couple of block-level (X)HTML objects, such as divs and paragraphs.
  - Among the new features that have been packaged with PHP 5.3, theres one that turns out to be remarkably useful during the development of object-oriented applications. It allows programmers to efficiently solve common issues that occur when its necessary to deal with hierarchies of classes in a sta...

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  Forum Implementation: Viewing Posts

  Posted: May 24th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a four-part series on setting up a forum for an online bookstore using Ruby on Rails we pick up where we left off we ll also start setting up the sections that allow visitors to view forum posts. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Groovy Code Notation: Like Java, Only Different

  Fetched: May 21st, 2010, 5:31pm MDT

  Find out what makes Groovy's code notation both similar to and distinct from Java at the same time.

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  Basic Tests for Forum Implementation

  Posted: May 21st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a four-part series on setting up a forum in Ruby on Rails you ll learn how to unit test a model generate a forum controller and view and more. This article is excerpted from chapter six of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Parsing and Regular Expression Basics

  Posted: May 20th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Parsing helps us to extract the information we need from the mounds of data available. Regular expressions assist us in the hunt. This four-part article series will show you how to use Perl with regular expressions to accomplish your parsing tasks. It is excerpted from chapter one of the book Pro Perl Parsing, written by Christopher M. Frenz (Apress; ISBN: 1590595041).
  - The dawn of a new age is upon us, an information age, in which an ever-increasing and seemingly endless stream of new information is continuously generated. Information discovery and knowledge advancements occur at such rates that an ever-growing num ber of specialties is appearing, and in many fie...

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  Forum Implementation

  Posted: May 20th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Setting up a forum is a great way to keep your customers interested and get feedback on what you re doing. This article the first part of a four-part series will show you how to set one up for an online bookstore using Ruby on Rails. It is excerpted from chapter six of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  The Get_called_class() Function in PHP 5.3

  Posted: May 19th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a series on late static bindings, you will learn how to use the “get_called_class()” function bundled with PHP 5.3 for determining at runtime which class has been called in a static context. In certain situations this function can be used as a replacement for late static bindings, but LSB has a wider range of possible uses; keep this in mind when developing your own object-oriented applications.
  - If you ask a group of developers whats so exciting about PHP 5.3, its very probable they'll tell you that this major upgrade of the language now supports native namespaces and anonymous functions. While these enhancements have been widely commented on and discussed in blogs and forums everywhere,...

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  Adding an RSS Feed to an Online Book Catalog

  Posted: May 19th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a three-part series on building an online book catalog application with Ruby-on-Rails we ll finish creating the search ability and add both a regular page and an RSS feed that lets users see the latest book titles to arrive at the store. This article is excerpted from chapter four of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Open Source Memcached Vendor NorthScale Gets New CEO and $10 Million

  Fetched: May 18th, 2010, 2:31pm MDT

  Open source distributed caching gets a boost of cash and management. Where does memcached go from here?
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  Top 10 MySQL GUI Tools -- Plus One for the Command Line

  Fetched: May 18th, 2010, 1:31pm MDT

  Here are ten outstanding graphical interfaces for MySQL management, development and administration, as well as one great MySQL toolkit with a wealth of command-line tools.

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  Registry Classes in Action with Late Static Bindings in PHP 5.3

  Posted: May 18th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of the series, I show you how useful late static bindings can be for dealing with a hierarchy of classes in static environments. In this case, the classes that compose that hierarchy are simple implementations of the registry design pattern, but this feature can be utilized in different situations and yield similar results.
  - The release of PHP 5.3.0 a few months ago put a big smile on the face of many developers. This major upgrade of the language has been packaged with some new and exciting features that allow you to build more robust and reliable applications, particularly when using the object-oriented paradigm. By ...

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  Browsing and Searching an Online Book Catalog

  Posted: May 18th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a three-part series on building an online book catalog in Ruby-on-Rails you ll learn how to set up the application to allow users to view book details and search for books. This article is excerpted from chapter four of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  10 Ways to Find the Web Elements You're Looking For with jQuery

  Fetched: May 17th, 2010, 3:31pm MDT

  With jQuery's powerful selector syntax, you can find any conceivable element in a Web page.

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  Using Late Static Bindings in PHP 5.3

  Posted: May 17th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  PHP 5.3 introduced a number of valuable features to the popular and constantly developing language, but some of them seem less useful at first glance than they actually are. Late static bindings fall into this category. This article series shows you how to unlock the true power of LSB to work for you.
  - Without a doubt, PHP is in steady and constant evolution. Its dynamic nature is one of the most relevant factors that has contributed to turning it into the mature language that we see nowadays. This doesnt mean that its API is a beautiful model of consistence and efficiency, though, especially w...

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  Building an Online Book Catalog

  Posted: May 17th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Now that we ve built an online bookstore application in Ruby-on-Rails it s time to serve our customers by building a book catalog of the store that they can use for browsing viewing book details searching for books and finding out about new titles at a glance. This article the first in a three-part series is excerpted from chapter four of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Eclipse Labs Debuts for Open Source Projects

  Fetched: May 14th, 2010, 3:31pm MDT

  New effort expands Eclipse development beyond just big projects to an open system on Google Code.
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  Mockito: Java Unit Testing with Mock Objects

  Fetched: May 14th, 2010, 3:31pm MDT

  Run a Java test with less overhead than integration tests and no need to deploy the service you're testing on a running Web container.

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  Managing Authors in an Online Bookstore

  Posted: May 14th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a four-part series on building an online bookstore application in Ruby-on-Rails you ll learn how to edit and delete authors and more. This article is excerpted from chapter two of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Google's Going Native in Chrome With SDK

  Fetched: May 13th, 2010, 3:31pm MDT

  New open source Native Client SDK debuts for Chrome, bringing C and C++ to the Web. But is it just another form of vendor lock-in?

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  Install Linux with Knoppix

  Posted: May 13th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you're interested in installing the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, you'll want to know that the Knoppix installer can save you a lot of trouble. This article walks you through the process. It is excerpted from the book Knoppix Hacks, Second Edition: Tips and Tools for Hacking, Repairing, and Enjoying Your PC, written by Kyle Rankin (O'Reilly, 2009; ASIN: B002QX441K). Copyright © 2009 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media
  - Once you are comfortable using Knoppix for your desktop, you might find yourself booting onto the CD more often. While you can create persistent settings and a portable home directory to mount, at some point you might decide you would like to use Knoppix full-time by installing it to your hard drive...

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  Validating Author Data in an Online Bookstore

  Posted: May 13th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a four-part article series on building an online bookstore application with Ruby on Rails you ll learn how to actually create authors in the system validate data and more. This article is excerpted from chapter two of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Python 3.1: String Formatting

  Posted: May 12th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a three-part series on Python 3.1, you'll learn how to format strings and put them together in different ways. We'll also review what we covered in the series as a whole, which includes your first Python program. This article is excerpted from the book Beginning Python: Using Python 2.6 and Python 3.1,, written by James Payne, Developer Shed Editor-in-Chief (Wrox, 2010; ISBN: 0470414634).
  - If you like what you're reading here, you can find it at Wrox or purchase the entire book at Amazon. Putting Strings Together in Different Ways Another way to specify strings is to use a format specifier. It works by putting in a special sequence of characters that Python will interpret as a ...

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  Adding Authors to an Online Bookstore

  Posted: May 12th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a four-part article series on creating an online bookstore application with Ruby on Rails you ll learn how to run a migration script and unit tests create the controller and more. This article is excerpted from chapter two of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Working with the Symfony Components PHP Libraries

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  Discover how working with the Symfony Components library can simplify your PHP development.

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  Python 3.1: Strings and Quotes

  Posted: May 11th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a three-part series that introduces you to Python, you'll learn about the importance of strings, how they work, and why Python uses three different kinds of quote marks. It is excerpted from the book Beginning Python: Using Python 2.6 and Python 3.1,, written by James Payne, Developer Shed Editor-in-Chief (Wrox, 2010; ISBN: 0470414634).
  - If you like what you're reading here, you can find it at Wrox or purchase the entire book at Amazon. What is a String? A string is one of several data types that exist within the Python language. A data type, as the name implies, is a category that a particular type of data fits into. Every type o...

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  Styling Pseudo Classes with the RGBA CSS3 Property

  Posted: May 11th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Bundled with the rest of the new features that come with the upcoming CSS3 specification the rgba property is a powerful tool that will let you assign simultaneously and easily a specific color and a level of opacity to a selected HTML element. This makes it possible to create engaging alpha-based transparency effects on web pages without the need to rely on heavy PNG images or use a single pinch of JavaScript....
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  Creating Complex, Secure Web Forms with PHP and HTML_QuickForm2

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  Add the HTML_QuickForm2 PEAR package to your PHP development for streamlined HTML forms creation and validation.

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  Python 3.1: Programming Basics and Strings

  Posted: May 10th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Ready to take your first steps in Python? This three-part article series walks you through the basics, introducing important concepts such as strings. In this first part, you'll learn how programming is different from using a computer, how to install Python, and how to start using the Python shell. It is excerpted from the book Beginning Python: Using Python 2.6 and Python 3.1,, written by James Payne, Developer Shed Editor-in-Chief (Wrox, 2010; ISBN: 0470414634).
  - If you like what you're reading here, you can find it at Wrox or purchase the entire book at Amazon. How Programming is Different from Using a Computer The first thing you need to understand about computers when youre programming is that you control the computer. Sometimes the computer doesnt do...

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  Controlling Overall Transparency of an HTML Element with the RGBA CSS3 Property

  Posted: May 10th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this penultimate installment of a four-part series you will learn how to use the rgba CSS3 property to change the overall opacity of all of the H2 headers coded in a sample X HTML document. This simple process demonstrates once again how flexible and versatile the property is when it comes to implementing alpha-based transparency effects on web pages....
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  Author Management for an Online Bookstore

  Posted: May 7th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  p In a recent series of articles you learned how to set up a proof of concept for an online bookstore created using Ruby-on-Rails. In this four-part article series you ll start creating the application for real using test-driven development. This article is excerpted from chapter two of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 . p ...
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  Hash Functions

  Posted: May 6th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a two-part series on hashes in Perl, you'll learn about hash functions and hashes in different contexts. This article is excerpted from chapter five of the book Beginning Perl, written by James Lee (Apress; ISBN: 159059391X).
  - Hash in List Context When we discussed lists and arrays, we spent a lot of time talking about the difference between list and scalar context. Lets look at what happens when we evaluate a hash in list context. This is demonstrated with the following program: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # listcontext.pl...

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  Altering the Border Opacity of an HTML Element with the RGBA CSS3 Property

  Posted: May 6th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of the series you will learn how to take advantage of the functionality provided by the rgba CSS3 property to change the opacity of the borders of all of the H2 headers included in a sample web page. This straightforward process simply involves assigning a color and a level of transparency to the pertinent borders. Period....
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  Open Source R Language Undergoes a Commercial Revolution

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  New commercial support and technology is on the way for the R language used for running analytics on big data.

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  How to Install XAMPP on Ubuntu Linux

  Posted: May 5th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  This is an important tutorial on how to install and completely configure XAMPP to run without problems on Ubuntu Linux.
  - To proceed please make sure you have the following requirements: Linux Ubuntu operating system - This tutorial has been written using Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala. XAMPP Linux Version installer - You can go to the XAMPP Linux Page and use the actual download link. At the time this tutorial ...

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  The RGBA CSS3 Property: an Overview

  Posted: May 5th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Website developers use many effects to produce beautiful web pages. Some effects however are more difficult to achieve than others. Surprisingly the transparency or opacity of web page elements falls into this category -- especially if you want the effect to look right on all browsers. Fortunately the upcoming CSS3 specification brings a solution to this problem called the rgba property. This four-part series takes a closer look at what you ll be able to do with this property once the specification is approved....
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  Using SSH in HeidiSQL and MySQL Query Browser: Encrypting Sessions

  Posted: May 4th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Using a MySQL GUI (Graphical User Interface) makes it easier, more efficient and user-friendly to work with a MySQL database. The two most popular MySQL GUIs, HeidiSQL and MySQL Query Browser, have their default connections to any MySQL server “unencrypted.” This is a problem, but we're going to fix it; just keep reading.
  - This tutorial will help you configure these two important MySQL GUIs to connect and do sessions in the SSH (Secure Shell) protocol. This will ensure that communication to your MySQL server is encrypted. Encrypted communication ensures the integrity and security of your data against unauthorized ...

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  Using HTML 5`s Mark, Summary and Details Elements

  Posted: May 4th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Welcome to the conclusion of a six-part series on some of the more exciting elements in HTML 5. Though this specification had not yet been approved by the World Wide Web Consortium at the time of writing the elements described in this series will make your life easier once the new specification receives widespread adoption and support from the major web browsers . This article covers three elements in HTML 5 that like the ones discussed in previous parts will help make your web page code cleaner and more semantic....
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  Ten Linux Commands Every Web Developer Should Know

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  Learn 10 indispensable Linux commands that can make web development work much easier and even more enjoyable.

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  MySQL in SSH: Basic Guide

  Posted: May 3rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  There are some hosting companies that do not offer an SSL (Secure Socket Layer) environment for MySQL. It is important to have an SSL environment for MySQL, because your sessions are protected with “encryption.” Fortunately, if you can't get SSL with your hosting company, there is an alternative: SSH.
  - The Secure Socket Layer security feature protects sensitive information (such as credit card information, passwords, SS numbers, etc.) from falling into the hands of an unauthorized third party that might be sniffing the packets as it travels the Internet. Below are some standards that most MyS...

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  Embedding External Content with HTML 5`s Article Tag

  Posted: May 3rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this penultimate part of a series on HTML 5 you will learn how to use its new lt article gt tag. This element should be used when it s necessary to include in a web page content that comes from an external source such as feeds blogs and even multiple web services. The beauty of lt article gt rests on its ability to wrap external data in a truly semantic way which is harder to achieve with regular divs....
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  Firebug: Add Browser-based Debugging to Your Ajax Development

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  Tired of troublesome debugging techniques in your Ajax development? Check out Firebug, a Firefox extension that makes JavaScript debugging almost fun.

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  Testing a Book Emporium Application

  Posted: April 30th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a three-part series on how to do a project setup and proof of concept for a fictional bookstore on Ruby-on-Rails we ll actually start the application for the first time and see how it functions. This article is excerpted from chapter one of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Spring Framework 3.0 and Annotation-driven Formatting

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  Learn how to use the new formatting annotations in Spring Framework 3.0 to improve the appearance of numeric, date and time information.

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  Hashes

  Posted: April 29th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Hashes in Perl aren't really that hard to understand; they're not that much harder than understanding how a phone book works. This article introduces you to hashes, what they do, and how to use them. It is excerpted from chapter five of the book Beginning Perl, written by James Lee (Apress; ISBN: 159059391X).
  - We have talked about two types of data: scalars and arrays. Scalars are single pieces of infor mation, while arrays are single variables containing many different values. Alternatively, some things are better expressed as a set of one-to-one correspondences. A phone book, for example, is a set of...

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  Writing a Ruby-on-Rails Bookstore Application

  Posted: April 29th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part to a three-part series on doing the project setup and proof of concept for a fictional bookstore on Ruby-on-Rails we ll finish adding the software and start building the application itself. This article is excerpted from chapter one of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Video: Analyzing MySQL Queries with EXPLAIN

  Fetched: April 28th, 2010, 3:31pm MDT

  The MySQL EXPLAIN statement provides insight into MySQL's query execution plans. This video demonstrates how you can use this powerful feature to boost your MySQL database performance.

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  Using Multiple Strategy Classes with the Strategy Design Pattern

  Posted: April 28th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Being one of the most popular contenders in the exciting, but very often complex, terrain of software design, the Strategy design pattern is a well-trusted paradigm. It allows you to build more flexible and efficient applications by appealing to the functionality of two of the big pillars of solid object-oriented programming: favoring Composition over Inheritance, and encapsulating the concepts that vary. This is the conclusion to a six-part series that shows you how to use the Strategy design pattern to validate incoming data.
  - As with other design patterns, the implementation of the Strategy pattern isn't subject to a specific programming language or context, and in fact it may vary slightly from case to case. This doesn't imply, though, that its use in real-world projects must be a painful and annoying experience. In rea...

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  Ruby on Rails Book Emporium Project

  Posted: April 28th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you re new to Ruby-on-Rails keep reading. This three-part article will show you how to do a project setup and proof of concept for a fictional bookstore. In this part we ll start installing the software. This article is excerpted from chapter one of the book em Practical Rails Projects em written by Eldon Alameda Apress ISBN 159 597818 ....
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  Validating URLs with the Strategy Design Pattern

  Posted: April 27th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this penultimate part of the series, I will build a strategy class that validates URLs using the built-in PHP function “filter_var().” This process is similar to defining other strategy classes discussed in previous parts, so you shouldnt have major difficulties understanding its underlying logic.
  - As a PHP developer, did you ever think that implementing the Strategy design pattern in a real-word case was a daunting task that would make you suffer premature hair loss? Well, fear not; in this article series you'll learn how to build a customizable web application which will use a bunch of...

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  Building Sidebars with HTML 5`s Aside Element

  Posted: April 27th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of the series I introduce you to the aside element. It comes in handy for quickly defining a sidebar within an HTML 5 document while preserving its precious and valuable semantic meaning....
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  Checking Email Addresses with the Strategy Design Pattern

  Posted: April 26th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of a series on the strategy design pattern, I extend the functionality of the sample validation program by adding another strategy class to it. The new class will check the validity of a supplied email address.
  - As you may have heard, the Strategy design pattern is a software design paradigm that allows developers to build flexible and modular applications by taking advantage of the functionality offered by Composition, rather than relying heavily on the benefits brought by Inheritance. While this may sound...

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  Working with HTML 5`s Footer Element

  Posted: April 26th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a series on HTML 5 I provide you with a quick and simple introduction to creating semantic footers in HTML 5 with the footer tag. Using this element is similar to marking up a section with a div that has been assigned a meaningful ID. In this case though HTML 5 saves you from that hassle....
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  Tracking Your Ads with Google AdWords

  Posted: April 23rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you conduct Google AdWords campaigns this article may be of interest to you. It shows how to use Ruby on Rails to build a reporting system that will help you keep the costs down when bidding on a selection of keywords. It is excerpted from chapter 13 of the book em Practical Reporting with Ruby on Rails em written by David Berube Apress ISBN 159 59933 ....
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  Scalars: Building a Currency Converter

  Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this conclusion to a five-part series on scalars in Perl, we'll put everything we've learned together to build a currency converter. This article is excerpted from chapter two of the book Beginning Perl, written by James Lee (Apress; ISBN: 159059391X).
  - Multiple Assignments Weve said that = is an operator, but does that mean it returns a value? Well, actually it does, it returns whatever was assigned. This allows us to set several variables up at once. Heres a simple example of this; read it from right to left: $d = $c = $b = $a = 1; Firs...

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  Using the HTML 5 Section Element

  Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a series I discuss the use of the section tag included with HTML 5. It can be used for semantically defining different sections of a web page. Working with this element is a fairly straightforward process so you shouldn t have major problems using it within the markup of your own HTML 5 documents....
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  Facebook Opens the Social Graph to Web Developers

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  Facebook expects a billion "Like" social plugin buttons across the Web within 24 hours of launching its new Open Graph protocol on Wednesday.

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  Verifying Float Values with the Strategy Design Pattern

  Posted: April 21st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a series on validating incoming data with the strategy design pattern, I create a brand new strategy class that can check whether or not a supplied input value is a float number. The addition of this class extends the capabilities of the sample validation program that Im building in this series.
  - Design patterns are well-known, reusable paradigms that allow developers to solve certain problems in a more efficient way, even though their implementation is flexible and not tied to a specific programming language. Due to their variety, they can be placed in different categories (creation, stru...

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  An Introduction to HTML 5: Doctype, Header and Nav Elements

  Posted: April 21st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  So what s coming after the current version of HTML HTML 5 of course. Keep reading for a look at what s coming and how you ll be able to use the new elements in your web pages once the specification is finalized and browsers begin supporting the new standard. This is the first part of a series....
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  Open Source Focus Seems to Be Lacking in Mobile Arena

  Posted: April 20th, 2010, 2:00pm MDT

  In today's world, it seems as if everyone is on the go. The introduction of smart phones and other mobile devices with increasing capability and technology seems to fit the idea that the mobile market is the way of the future. So where is Linux when it comes to mobile technology?
  - One person who believes that the mobile market is the way of the future is Google's CEO Eric Schmidt. The recent Atmosphere conference, where many technology leaders presented new thoughts and ideas, was where Schmidt expressed the sentiment of increasing mobile importance. To summarize, Schmidt...

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  Drupal Development Proliferates as Version 7 Nears

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  Open source content management system adds new commercial offerings as work continues on Drupal's next major release.

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  Checking Integers with the Strategy Design Pattern

  Posted: April 20th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If youre a PHP developer who wants to learn how to implement the Strategy design pattern in a real-world project, then you might want to take a look at this article series. Over the course of its six tutorials, youll walk through the development of a modular and flexible application, which will use this powerful pattern to validate different types of data, including integer and float numbers, email addresses and URLs.
  - And now that you've been introduced to the subject covered by this series, its time to review the topics covered in the first tutorial, in case you havent read it yet. In that part I explained in depth the logic that stands behind the Strategy pattern, as well as how to use it for checking the v...

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  Using Span Tags to Include Logos in Web Pages

  Posted: April 20th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Welcome to the conclusion of a four-part series that shows you how to semantically include logos in web pages. In this part you ll learn how to use additional span tags to include a logo in a web page without causing problems with the semantics of the page s structural markup....
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  Coding Examples of the Iterator, Countable and ArrayAccess SPL Interfaces in PHP 5

  Posted: April 19th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Welcome to the final installment of a series that provides an overview of the Iterator, Countable and ArrayAccess SPL interfaces in PHP 5. Made up of six parts, this series teaches you how to build a fully-working MySQL abstraction class that takes advantage of the methods inherited from these native interfaces to manipulate database record sets easily by using an array syntax.
  - In the articles that preceded this one I demonstrated in a step-by-step fashion how to develop such a MySQL handling class. It effectively defined all of the methods required by the aforementioned interfaces. In doing so, the class now is not only capable of traversing data sets by way of a plain “...

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  Creating Reports with Ruby and Microsoft Office

  Posted: April 19th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this article you ll learn how to create reports with Ruby and Microsoft Office programs and produce a web-based system that sends its data to an Access database. It is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book em Practical Reporting with Ruby on Rails em written by David Berube Apress ISBN 159 59933 ....
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  Introducing DotNetNuke, the Open Source, .NET-driven CMS

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  Learn all about DotNetNuke, the world's most popular content management system built atop ASP.NET -- and it's open source.

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  Calculating Costs by Analyzing Apache Web Logs

  Posted: April 16th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you re working on analyzing your web site traffic keep reading. This article will show you how to create a custom report to analyze web site traffic and sales based on a high volume of data in Apache logs. It is excerpted from chapter 1 of the book em Practical Reporting with Ruby on Rails em written by David Berube Apress ISBN 159 59933 ....
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  Top 10 JavaScript Solutions for Converting Dull Data Sets into Slick Charts

  Fetched: April 15th, 2010, 6:32pm MDT

  These 10 powerful JavaScript-based solutions can transform your boring data sets into colorful, interactive charts.

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  Scalars and Variables

  Posted: April 15th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of a five-part series on scalars in Perl, you learn how to compare the value of strings; we'll also wrap up our discusssion of operators and move on to variables. This article is excerpted from chapter two of the book Beginning Perl, written by James Lee (Apress; ISBN: 159059391X).
  - String Comparison As well as comparing the value of numbers, we can compare the value of strings. This does not mean we convert a string to a number, although if you say something like quot;12 quot; gt; quot;30 quot; , Perl will convert to numbers for you. This means we can compare the stri...

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  Tracking the News with Google News

  Posted: April 15th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this article you ll create a graphical report from Google News RSS data using a handy utility called FeedTools and a plug-in called CSS Graphs Helper. This article is excerpted from chapter 11 of the book em Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails em written by David Berube Apress ISBN 159 59933 ....
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  Validating Incoming Data with the Strategy Design Pattern

  Posted: April 14th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If youve been doing some research lately on the web about how to implement different design patterns, be it in Java, PHP or Python, you'll probably have noticed that the Strategy pattern is one of the most popular contenders in the field. It has been covered countless times in all types of media, ranging from books and magazines to e-zines and personal blogs. In this article series, I'll show you how to use this popular design pattern to accomplish one of the more common tasks a website must perform: validating user-supplied data.
  - Logically, theres a reason for the Strategy design pattern's well-deserved popularity: unlike the Composite and Decorator patterns, which are also important to pattern-driven programming, the logic that stands behind Strategy is much easier to grasp, and its implementation in several languages is f...

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  Using a Single H1 Element to Include Logos in Web Pages

  Posted: April 14th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a series I demonstrate how easy it is to display a logo in a web page by using an H1 header element. This approach allows you to preserve the page s semantic meaning....
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  The NetBeans IDE for PHP Development

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  The NetBeans IDE boasts a series of great features that can cut time and pain from your PHP development process.

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  The Android Revolution

  Posted: April 13th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Weve discussed Googles Android Operating System before as it pertains to Verizon partnering with the tech giant or the systems specific capabilities, but theres a lot to catch up on, as is often the case with Google. There are now a ton of Droid systems already on the market, with more coming. Keep reading as we take a closer look at the state of the market.
  - Not only is the Droid system most favored among developers (as well soon learn), but since the operating systems release in October of 2008, an unprecedented number of smartphones (and e-readers, among a few other gadgets) now use the system. By the end of 2009, Google expected there to be 18 Androi...

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  Combining Divs and H1 Elements to Include Logos in Web Pages

  Posted: April 13th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second tutorial of a series I implement a simple effective method for displaying a sample logo in a web page while preserving its semantic meaning. This process involves the use of a div and an H1 header which is a more effective approach as this last element is utilized in most cases to show the name of a web site or of the pages which it comprises ....
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  Perl 5.12 Debuts as Open Source Language Progresses

  Fetched: April 12th, 2010, 6:31pm MDT

  Still waiting for Perl 6? It could be a while, but in the meantime developers are improving Perl 5 as the sturdy language remains popular in the enterprise.

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  Implementing More Methods of the ArrayAccess SPL Interface

  Posted: April 12th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fifth part of a six-part series on the Iterator, Countable and ArrayAccess SPL interfaces, I implement the rest of the methods declared by the ArrayAccess SPL interface within the “MySQLi_ResultWrapper” class that you saw in a previous part. Once this process is completed, the class will be able to treat records in database result sets as if they were plain array elements.
  - If youre a PHP developer who frequently builds object-oriented web applications, then its possible that youve already worked with user-defined interfaces. PHP 5 offers strong support for them, among the numerous features that make up its highly-enhanced object model. However, the support for in...

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  Semantically Including Logos in Web Pages

  Posted: April 12th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Are you looking for a graceful way to include your logo on your web page without messing up the semantic meaning of its code Then you ve come to the right place. This article the first in a series will show you a couple of relevant approaches future articles will provide you with additional options....
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  Investment Tracking with Fidelity

  Posted: April 9th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  With the economy the way it is many people are trying to keep a closer watch on their investments. This article shows you how to write some custom code for this. It is excerpted from chapter nine of the book em Practical Reporting with Ruby on Rails em written by David Berube Apress ISBN 159 59933 ....
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  Scalars and Boolean and String Operators

  Posted: April 8th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this third part of a five-part series on scalars in Perl, we continue our study of operators, moving on to Boolean and string operators. This article is excerpted from chapter two of the book Beginning Perl, written by James Lee (Apress; ISBN: 159059391X).
  - The NOT Operator Finally, you can flip the number completely, and replace all the 1s by 0s and vice versa. This is done with the not, or ~, operator: 85 01010101 170 10101010 Lets see, however, what happens when we try this in Perl: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # bitop2.pl print q...

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  Creating Sales Performance Reports with SugarCRM

  Posted: April 8th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If your business is successful it won t take too long for you to have plenty of customers -- and lots of data about them. How do you keep track of it all With a customer relationship management system of course. This article will explain how to use the open source SugarCRM to produce an appropriate report. It is excerpted from chapter 8 of the book em Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails em written by David Berube Apress ISBN ISBN 159 59933 ....
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  Will Oracle Help Java Regain Its Status?

  Fetched: April 7th, 2010, 7:31pm MDT

  Oracle promises Java SE 7 release this year with increased developer productivity, modularization, and support for more than 200 languages.

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  The Data Mapper Design Pattern: A Final Example

  Posted: April 7th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Welcome to the final part of a series on implementing the Data Mapper design pattern in PHP 5. This series teaches you the key concepts that surround the development of data mapper classes. It complements the corresponding theory with a decent variety of code samples.
  - And now that you've been introduced to the primary goal of this series, its time to review the topics that were discussed in the previous part. In the course of that tutorial I finished building a basic data mapper class, which in this particular case was responsible for mapping user domain object...

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  Tracking Expenditures with PayPal

  Posted: April 7th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you conduct a lot of business through PayPal this article can help you use reporting with Ruby-on-Rails to save you time and make your accounts more orgainzed. It is excerpted from chapter seven of the book em Practical Reporting with Ruby on Rails em written by David Berube Apress ISBN 159 59933 ....
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  Working with Zip Archives in PHP

  Fetched: April 6th, 2010, 6:31pm MDT

  When the time comes to manage Zip archives and their contents in PHP, you will need to use the PHP Zip archive extension. Learn how to use this extension and its methods in PHP 5.

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  Using the ArrayAccess SPL Interface

  Posted: April 6th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fourth part of a six-part series, that covers the Iterator, Countable, and ArrayAccess SPL interfaces, I show how to partially implement the methods declared by the ArrayAccess SPL interface within a sample class that manipulates MySQL result sets.
  - This isn't breaking news certainly, but as you may have heard, PHP 5 comes packaged with a powerful set of functions, classes and interfaces commonly know as the Standard PHP Library (SPL), which can be used for tackling typical problems present in day-to-day programming without having to reinvent t...

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  Adding Text Indentation to Style Code Blocks with CSS

  Posted: April 6th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this concluding article to a seven-part series on styling code blocks with CSS I ll show you how to finish the example we ve been working with by adding predefined indentation to make the code more readable....
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  Apache Maven 3 Races to the Finish Line

  Fetched: April 5th, 2010, 4:31pm MDT

  After years of development, a new version of the widely used Java build tool is nearing completion. The founder and project lead shares an early look.

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  Checking Native and User-Defined Classes with the Reflection API

  Posted: April 5th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  Welcome to the final part of a series on the Reflection API. Through a decent variety of functional code samples, this series shows you how to take advantage of the power offered by reflection to analyze the internal structure of your classes and interfaces by using an object-oriented approach.
  - And now that you've been introduced to the main goal of this series, I'd like to spend a few moments refreshing the topics that were covered in the last article. In that tutorial I explained how to utilize a couple of methods included with the reflection API to determine if a specified class was de...

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  Decorating Line Numbers in Code Blocks Styled with CSS

  Posted: April 5th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this penultimate part of the series I demonstrate how easy it is to add a gutter and a zebra background effect to an online code fragment by using a single background image. You can edit and modify the image to suit your own requirements. The possibilities are endless....
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  Clojure: Immutability at the Language Level

  Fetched: April 2nd, 2010, 7:31pm MDT

  At the heart of Clojure programming language is a powerful set of immutable, persistent collection types. Get a deep dive into a couple of them.

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  Tracking Auctions with eBay

  Posted: April 2nd, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you do a substantial amount of selling on eBay and would like to get a better feeling for how you re doing and how to improve it building reports with Ruby-on-Rails can help. This article explains how. It is excerpted from chapter 6 of the book em Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails em written by David Berube Apress ISBN 159 59933 ....
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  Scalars and Operators

  Posted: April 1st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this second part of a five-part series on scalars in Perl, you'll learn about operators (both arithmetic and bitwise), among other things. This article is excerpted from chapter two of the book Beginning Perl, written by James Lee (Apress; ISBN: 159059391X).
  - Alternative Delimiters Thats all very well, of course, until we want a / in the string. Suppose we want to replace “Slashdot” with “/.” now were back where we started, having to escape things again. Thankfully, Perl allows us to choose our own delimiters so we dont have to stick with // . Any n...

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  Changing the Color of Code Lines with CSS

  Posted: April 1st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this fifth part of a seven-part series I demonstrate how to enhance the visual presentation of a code fragment in a web page by assigning a high-contrast color to its lines. Since the fragment is also housed inside an ordered list generating its line numbers is an automated process that the browser does naturally. That means less work for you ...
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  Ruby Development Gains Commercial Support on Java as New JRuby Version Looms

  Fetched: March 31st, 2010, 5:32pm MDT

  The JRuby language gets commercial support as a major new JRuby version approaches, promising easier integration of Ruby development and Java.

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  Finishing a Data Mapper Class for the Data Mapper Design Pattern

  Posted: March 31st, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  In this penultimate part of the series on the data mapper design pattern, I demonstrate how to provide the UserMapper class we've previously created with the ability to delete users from its associated MySQL table.
  - Superbly described in Martin Fowler's book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Data Mapper is a powerful database access pattern aimed at keeping domain objects isolated from the underlying storage mechanism (in most cases a relational database). This permits developers to build multi...

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