Google has released a beta version of Google Gears which is an open source browser extension which  enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs. Here’s what you ca...

Want to create cool Web2.0 UI’s? You can use Apatana to create these using the Yahoo UI Library. Aptana provides you the IDE to create UI components with YUI and provides you with code complete facilities to do th...

An interesing article which explains what can go wrong when you’re handing UTF-8 character sets in PHP. The current versions of PHP do mangle up UTF-8 characters when you use the built in string functions in PHP. ...

Looking around for a good IDE to code HTML, CSS and Javascript? Look no further… Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following featu...

IBM has an interesting article which outlines some common database problems which PHP programmers encounter. “Discover five common database problems that occur in PHP applications — including database schema...

Justin Silverton has some tips over at his blog on how to improve performance of OO PHP code. “The following tips can help in optimizing object-orientated PHP. 1. Initialise all variables before use. 2. Dereferenc...

Heard about Flash remoting? It’s a method for Flash to communicate with a web application server. Here’s how Macromedia defines Flash remoting: “Macromedia Flash Remoting MX provides the connection betw...

An interesting read from PHP Magazine on the next generation Frameworks for PHP. “Gone are the days of coding entire PHP applications from scratch. The five forerunners for the next generation of PHP frameworks are...

Here’s an interesting read on error handling. “Very little software really gets error handling right. Even many critical, backend server systems tend to break under heavy loads. And the vast majority of end-u...

Here’s a piece of code which will force download a pdf instead of showing it inline in the browser. < ?php header('Pragma: public'); header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT'); header('Cache-Contro...