I have built quite a few directory systems in my years as a web developer and one thing that has always annoyed me is building letter filters to return results depending on the first letter of a title.
Normally I would waste a lot of time actually typing out the entire alphabet string:
$alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’;
which can [...]
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This site has always been hosted on shared hosting, along with a few other blogs I maintain for friends (On The Wrong Planet and Darth McCarth to name a couple…). Even while I was freelancing I have always used shared hosting as it has always been perfect for my needs However the popularity of this [...]
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I just came across this article published last week from the WikiVS guys. As a web developer I normally use MySQL, however I have been working on some projects recently that MySQL just hasn’t been able to handle because of the sheer number of rows used. The most recent is a program that reads apache [...]
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Original Article on The Register
Hands on Ruby on Rails has become a popular framework for developing database-based web applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
Before Ruby on Rails, though, PHP was hogging the web-development limelight. Problem was, there was no Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for PHP.
With Ruby on Rails, though, PHP developers have come to realize the [...]
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Good bye and thanks for all the fish…
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I spend the majority of my time developing web software in PHP, so it’s good to see PHP dominating over the other web languages. The only contender is Java, but a comparison using Google Trends isn’t really fair as the results would incorporate searches for the coffee company, or even the island…
Anyway, I [...]
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This is something that I have been trying to get working for a few months now, but haven’t come up with a stable enough solution to use commercially. As we all know Javascript can be a pain in the ass to debug sometimes, but Shahryar Ghazi has come up with a pretty reasonable workflow using [...]
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“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.” (Winston Churchill)
In PHP, unlike many other languages, you can choose between using an object oriented (OO) or a procedural approach. Most PHP programmers use a procedural approach by default, since web pages themselves operate in a very procedural way (this tag, [...]
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