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User Personalization with PHP: The Home Page
24/6/2009 | external link
Learn how to build an online bookmark system. By creating your own, you have full control over your application, which allows you to tweak it to suit your needs.
Greybox, Lightbox Part 2
24/6/2009 | external link
Greybox offers another use of Lightbox that other implementations can't brag about. Learn how to display a website or web page in a div, using Greybox.
Debugging JavaScript: Handling Runtime Exceptions
24/6/2009 | external link
The Error object provides a number of properties to help you display more meaningful error messages to the client and more useful debugging information to you, the developer. In this article, we'll go over how to use the Error object to handle runtime exceptions.
Prevent Browser Caching of Dynamic Content
24/6/2009 | external link
Today we'll be discussing the use of Ajax in client-side caching. It's really a two pronged topic: first, it is beneficial for performance to cache the data once it's been downloaded because it minimizes server calls; second, you have to be able to force the browser to refresh some content when a server call is made. This article will concentrate on the latter.
User Personalization with PHP: The Final Scripts
24/6/2009 | external link
User Personalization with PHP" examines the last scripts that make up the main section of the application. In particular, it covers how to add , remove and change bookmark information.
Kicking the Tires on Your Next CMS
24/6/2009 | external link
Confused about which Content Management System (CMS) is right for you? Ernest Lilley helps you break Content Management Systems into distinct groups, based on how much time, money, and effort you can put into the project.
Getting Started with URL Rewriting with Apache
24/6/2009 | external link
The Apache web server has a number of very useful and powerful features, one of which is the ability to rewrite URLs. Using the mod_rewrite module, Apache allows you to create short or fancy looking URLs transparently. This article discusses how to enable, configure, and tweak mod_rewrite in your Apache installation.
Debugging JavaScript: Beyond Alerts
24/6/2009 | external link
Today, JavaScript can be written, debugged, and even tested using frameworks' built-in functionality or by specialized software. In today's article, we'll begin examining some of the latest ways of debugging your JavaScript code.
User Personalization with PHP: The Admin Section
24/6/2009 | external link
The final installment of our series on User Personalization with PHP focuses on the Administration of the bookmark application.
Thickbox 3.1
24/6/2009 | external link
Continuing our series on various implementations of Lightbox, this article discusses another library, namely Thickbox, which can be used to display modal dialog boxes.
Consuming a Web Service using ASP.NET Ajax
24/6/2009 | external link
A web service is a platform-independent software component that is based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and contains a group of functions that are packaged together for use in a common framework throughout a network. Read on to learn how Web Services can be consumed using ASP.NET Ajax.
Testing your DTD XML Schema Validation
24/6/2009 | external link
A key ingredient of successful testing is the separation of the component that you are testing from the rest of the process or application. This article explains how to perform your DTD XML schema testing outside of the application that runs it.
Make Prettier URLs with Apache's Mod Rewrite
24/6/2009 | external link
Sukrit Dhandhania discusses how to use .htaccess to make user and search engine friendly URLs for your web applications.
Theming Your CMS Without Tearing Your Hair Out
24/6/2009 | external link
This month Ernest Lilley looks back at his adventures in learning to create themes/skins for websites in the hopes of saving others some pain, if not work.
Data Filtering with PHP
24/6/2009 | external link
This article explores some of the new data filtering functions that became available in PHP 5.