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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.

Many people were surprised by the simplicity of the math underlying the google PageRank algorithm, and the ease with which it seemed to be efficiently implementable.

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...

REST tutorial in dialogue form.

There is an ongoing debate about whether offsite links should automatically open up in new browser windows. I believe that they should. An offsite or external link is one th...

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...

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 r...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

This article introduces the very basics of writing stored procedures with PostgreSQL (aka Postgres), an open-source database system. It is intended for both Postgres newbies ...

You should try to keep your hands on keyboard. The less you touch the mouse, the more code you can write. I am trying to keep the mouse laying still and control the IDE complet...

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...

One surefire way to sound really really smart is to invoke a law or principle named after some long dead guy (an alive guy is acceptable too, but lacks slightly in smart points).

You’ve spent hours setting up your blog on your favorite blog platform just right. Good for you! So how do you maintain your blog so that it remains at the top of its game?

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

The System Thinking Laws from Peter Senge’s book “The Fifth Discipline” applied to Software Development.

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

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...

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...

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

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

At the end of an average eight-hour workday, the fingers have walked 16 miles over the keys and have expended energy equal to the lifting of 1 1/4 tons.

A while ago, Jeff Atwood wrote about the merits of laziness for successful software developers. Lest this become the mantra of sub-performing developers everywhere, I wante...

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...

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...

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...

David Meyer recently published a .NET class library that enables duck typing (also sometimes incorrectly described as Latent Typing as Ian Griffiths explains in hi...

Introduction In this article I will try to give a view of what is the custom caching with php, why and how we can use it. In the modern days, most of the sites are database ...