Web Development

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 ...

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 edito...

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...

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...

What should be the qualities of the best leader for the software team: strong decisive knowledgeable or quiet supportive cooperative?

They talk with the business, come up with solutions and make bright key decisions about architecture. But they don’t program. During the course of the project they ensure that ...

“There are very few true artists in computer programming, most are just house painters.” - Tim Bryce’s Law Management consultant Tim Bryce doesn’...

We know that effective communication with humans requires skills, experience and effort. It is not easy and straightforward.

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...

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...

I recently discussed mod_ext_filter , a loadable module used with Apache. It allows you to easily process your content through an external program before it’s passed ont...

Programmers use a lot of tools throughout the day. Some of them are pretty obvious: a fast PC, wide monitor (or three), a robust IDE, and good coffee. Other items tend to get o...

(This article is Part 2 in a series about Apache’s loadable modules. The previous topic was mod_ext_filter ). As former Microsoft-ite who made the leap to OSS, one of...

Like most languages, PHP allows developers to accomplish the same tasks using several different methods. I think most of us stick with whatever habits we fall into without real...

Before I wrote my “Dear John” letter to PHP the other day, I had largely decided to move to Python as my primary tool. I had been on the fence for months about ch...