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The easy way to run operating systems without messing up your system GNU/Linux can be scary to a new user. After all, what if you mess up? What if you end up corrupting your h...

Today, I was taught an important lesson. The lesson of effectivity. I was attending a presentation, called "Python Django: Advanced web application in 40 minutes". Th...

Intro I have a bit of “me” time today to write some code and I thought I’d treat myself to something light and fun by building something purely for its flas...

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 is thousands of sites selling ...

Advancing web developers have probably heard about XHTML, the eXtensible HyperText Markup Language developed in 1999 to supercede HTML. Most people use XHTML simply because the...

All for beginners about Mandriva, formerly known as Mandrake Linux an easy-to-use and innovative operating system. It is one of the most popular Linux editions in the world. Th...

Based on 2 years' experience with PRADO v.3.x at Note: Tips are marked with stars ( * ), where 5 stars are the most important tweaks. I. Basic settings ...

So you are coding along riding that TDD high when you reach the point at which your code needs to send an email. What do you do now? You might consider writing something...

Hey Guys! Don?t raise your eyebrows or fear by hearing the word Linux. It is as user friendly as windows. Just take a look at the articles below and all myths about Linux in yo...

A tutorial for novices that discusses processes and process related commands including ps, top, grep, fuser, more, jobs and kill. our GNU/Linux computer is an amazing machine....

A few weeks ago I published a small HOWTO for using loop-aes to encrypt your hard drive, usb thumb drive etc. As I have bought a new 300 GB external USB disk drive on Fri...

Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. - Wikipedia Why it is so difficult to understand the nature of the Softwa...

In a recent post , I compared the expressiveness of the Ruby style of writing code to the current C# style of writing code. I then went on and demonstrated one approach to ach...

Forty certainly isn t as old as it used to be, but it s still a great excuse for a celebration. For the 40th Birthday gift-buyer, though, it can be a troublesome age to buy for.

After thinking about doing it for many months, I finally converted 2tbsp.com from Wordpress 2 to Drupal 5. I didn't make this move because of anything wrong with Wordpress. Wor...

Ever wonder how all this foolishness got started in the first place and why? How big it really is? How many present users there are? The average time spent on a website? Here a...

If you're a webmaster, you should definitely read this!

System.IO.Path How often do you see code like this to create a file path? public string GetFullPath( string fileName) { string folder = ConfigurationManager.A...

In Jeff Atwood’s infamous FizzBuzz post , he quotes Dan Kegel who mentions. Less trivially, I’ve interviewed many candidates who can’t use recursion to ...

Now I like to take shots at myself for producing drivel now and then, but today, I’m going to take a shot at someone else’s drivel. I really should be working right...

Good news! SourceForge now supports using Subversion for source control! One complaint I received from developers who read my Quickstart Guide To Open Source Developm...

UPDATE: I wrote a post with notes on getting this to work with ASP.NET 2.0. Looking around, I noticed a lot of people struggling with getting Log4Net to work with thei...

Testing code written for the web is challenging. Especially code that makes use of the ASP.NET intrinsic objects such as the HttpRequest object. My goal is to make testing suc...

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 same issues. How do I clear ev...

As a kid, one of my favorite tools I had was a shiny red cased Victorinox swiss army knife. I’d carry that sucker around with me everywhere, using the main blade to tackl...

Jeff Atwood writes a great summary of Open Source Licenses . As far as I’m concerned, there’s really only four software licenses to worry about (open source or oth...

Ninety percent of all usability testing performed on Web sites is useless. This is not to say that it doesn’t have a significant role to play in user experience design. When do...

REST tutorial in dialogue form.

When the database seems to be "slow" first consider all of the following points as e.g. making a certain query absolutely unnecessary by simply using a more sophisticated algor...

Be inspired. Some tips that can be useful for website developers.