Reading and writing Extensible Markup Language (XML) in PHP may seem a little frightening. In fact, XML and all its related technologies can be intimidating. However, reading and writing XML in PHP doesn't have to be a daunting task. First, you need to learn a little about XML -- what it is and what it's used for. Then, you need to learn how to read and write XML in PHP, which you can do in many ways.
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Reading and writing the XML DOM with PHP
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Free Font for programmers
Picky about font, esp. the programming font.The fonts available on windows are still ok but if you using Linux desktop the font's selection is limited and crave for better free fonts.Don't worry you are in for a treat. These monspaced fonts look great on any OS. Check it out.
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High Scalability
High Scalability helps you build successful scalable websites. This site tries to bring together all the lore, art, science, practice, and experience of building scalable websites into one place so you can learn how to build your system with confidence. Hopefully this site will move you further and faster along the learning curve of success.
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How to scale on ROR using stack similar to LAMP?
A very informative and practical presentation that talks about how website can be scaled up to handle milliions of page views a month all using free/open source solutions. It starts from a simple setup and expands on a more complex one. Similarly other stacks can be sacled to build a scalable platform.
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Differences Between Scrum and Extreme Programming
The other day I was reviewing XP practices and came accross this interesting scoop about differences between Scrum and XP. As the author mentions, XP and Scrum are very aligned but have subtle yet important differences and I agree with those. It worth a read.
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Java Parellel Processing
Learn how to exploit fine-grained parallelism using the fork-join framework coming in Java 7
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Great Business Software - Needs a Great Domain Model
When you are coding in a hurry, it is very tempting to write business logic in the first place that comes to mind, such as a button click handler in your UI code. However, for all but the simplest systems, such a practice leads very quickly to a system that is very difficult to work with, much less modify, because its business logic is scattered like the ash from an erupting volcano. So let's take a step back and see how you can develop an application more intelligently.
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Figure out why an application hangs
Unfortunately, determining the source of a hung application usually requires quite a bit of detective work.
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Big Unix Cheat Sheet
This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. This is a practical guide with concise explanations, however the reader is supposed to know what s/he is doing.
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10 tools for modern PHP Development
A simple list of tools for modern PHP development. There are alternatives to most of the tools, but I’ll list native PHP tools wherever possible.
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Boost Your site with 10 cool Javascript Effects
This post highlights cool javascript effects with example images that can make your site look fancier. Take a look for your self?
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How To Use HTML Meta Tags
Simple post describes what Meta tags are, how they can be used and what tag in particular the Search Engines look for.
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Free WebTools for Webmasters
This site provides free web tools for the webmaster like BackLinks Checker, Google Page Rank Predictor, Alex traffic rank and numerous other handy tools for day to day use.
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Phyton CheatSheet
A quick explanation of Python for Programmers. One image says it all.
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Easy Eclipse - Faster Headstart
EasyEclipse packages together Eclipse, the open-source software development platform, and selected open source plugins. It selects, assemble, test, patch, build installers and document a full IDE, offered as reliable distributions and plugins. This helps to developer to get easily started without the hassale to download various plugins need for a particular type of development.
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