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Blog Post on Choosing a Programmer
Nice little blog post on “How to recognize a good programmer”: http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good-programmer/
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Google's Social Networking API
There’s a bit at the following blog on Google’s launch it’s new social networking api: Google has announced OpenSocial, a new open API for social networks. The new standard will allow developers to create Facebook-like apps on any social network … Read More
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How to Install Joomla perForms Component
There’s a component from the Joomla Extension Gallery called perForms which helps you create custom forms for your Joomla powered Web sites. I’ll list below the simple steps to install perForms. The first thing to know is that perForms is … Read More
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pechenka.info, Oh Those Russian Spammers
Those Russian spammers are hard working folk. I’m starting to see lately that my visitor logs receive pretty predictable traffic patterns from what I’m going to come out and guess are Russian spammers. You’ll see a pretty standard traffic pattern, … Read More
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Password Management for Web Developers
There’s a few discussions on password management when building Web applications. The first post from Coding Horror entitled, “Your Probably Storing Your Passwords Incorrectly” urges developers to NOT store passwords in plain text, which is the true and correct method. … Read More
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125 Web Designer Code Snippets
There’s a blog post with 125 Web Designer resources worth taking a look at: http://www.paulspoerry.com/index.php/2007/05/18/125-code-snippets-for-web-designers/ This is not my list! I snagged the list from tutorialblog.org, I’ve just compiled it all into a single resource. Below are 125 handy HTML, … Read More
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5 Must Have Tools for PHP Developers
Here’s a blog post with a nice list of PHP Tools: http://immike.net/blog/2007/08/15/5-tools-every-php-programmer-should-know-about/ I’m especially interested in Phing, a project build system, which I’ll be using for an application I’ll be building in partnership with another company. Here’s a bit summary … Read More
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Is JavaScript Slowing Down the Web
This guy thinks so: A single line of JavaScript is what powers a lot of blogging technologies these days. Widgets, sharing tools, visitors tracking, advertisers. In many cases a single line of JavaScript is all that a blogger needs to … Read More
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Eric Shmidt on Web 3.0
I just had to post this: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/eric_schmidt_defines_web_30.php Schmidt launched into a great definition of Web 3.0. He said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be “applications that are pieced together” – with the characteristics that … Read More
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PHP ctype_alnum to Check Alpha Numeric Characters
A function of PHP’s; ctype_alnum can be used to test a string for alpha numeric characters. It will count a space as non-alphanumeric (which is right), so you can use it like so: $string = “test !ng”; if ( !ctype_alnum(preg_replace(‘/[[:space:]]/’, … Read More
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Multiple Version of J2SE Updates on Windows
At some point I got into my Windows Add/Remove programs and noticed around 5 versions of Java’s J2SE Runtime Environment Update. Each version is listed as so: J2SE Runtime Environment #.# Update # Each of these average around 120MB, and … Read More
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Experts Exchange and Other Web Access Issues
Below is a post describing the annoying practice of Experts Exchange hiding usable content from Web visitors while at the same time providing the content to Google for spidering. The two things you can walk away with is that you … Read More