Web Development

If you are developing a web-based system whereby a user, or users, are logging in and staying logged in (sessions, cookies), the following ideas are written with you in mind. Making sure your authentication and authorization schemes are secure is going to be part of your task. All of those things fall under the umbrella term: security.

Are you ready to take a step beyond writing code in a text editor like UltraEdit, BBEdit, or TextMate? Would you like to see those PHP and JavaScript syntax errors in the editor, without transferring files to the server or opening a browser? If so, then you're ready to jump into the world of the IDE.

REST tutorial in dialogue form.

Back in the frontier days of the web, ”Webmaster” was a vaunted, almost mythical, title. The Webmaster was a techno-shaman versed the black arts needed to make words and images appear on this new-fangled Information Superhighway.

Learn and implement vital tips on increasing your website s performance. Find out how to make general improvements, how to optimize images, tweak HTML source code, get better results from ASP and ASP.NET, tune your database, and enhance IIS.

PHP is simultaneously the most infuriating and joyful languages you’ve probably ever worked with. “infuriating” primarily because the function names are so inconsistant. Here’s a short list of cool features that might have slipped under your radar.

This article is covering password hashing, a subject which is often poorly understood by newer developers.

Websites are built for specific types of viewers and must appeal to a definite target market. Users must be able to view your site, scan everything, and immediately understand what the website is about.

As a webmaster, you want to keep your visitors content so they ll come back again. Here you will find ten common mistakes made by webmasters that may deter people from returning.

Yogi Berra once said "it's deja vu all over again", and he was right. For each HTML/CSS template I build I find myself dealing with the...

I don’t know about you, but when I find something wordy but really worth reading on the web, I print it out. Sure, I could try reading it ...

Businesses need a website to compete in today's markets. The problem is everyone else has a website too, because they want to compete. The result...