Web Development

Here are places it’s useful to use Ajax : (This is a collaborative wiki list – feel free to add your own ideas to it) Form driven interaction. Forms are slo...

The Singleton is one of the simplest Patterns to understand. It's common usage is to ensure that only one instance of a class is ever instantiated. The reason for wanting...

When you are trying to optimize your queries to run quickly and efficiently, you may encounter queries that really should run faster. That's where EXPLAIN comes in handy. T...

(...)I'll warn you right now, this is going to be a long article. More than likely, I'll put a version of this up on the MySQL developer zone and PHP zone. This article...

The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate a system for manipulating a database without writing SQL queries. I introduce a number of concepts including the DataObject and Data...

Ever wondered how different popular sites function? The key to this answer is a dedicated server. Such a server that is completely owned by its user thereby avoiding all of the...

Here in San Francisco, Apple buffs are rejoicing at finally getting an Apple Store of our very own. (Sure, there’s been one across the Bay for months, but it’s just...

Mistakes made when developing with Ajax .

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

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.

Abstract Ruby on Rails ("Rails") is the dominant web programming framework for Ruby and, even outside the Ruby community, is considered the epitome of th...