A Tech Discovery Blog on PHP, Ajax, Security and Social Media.
Here’s an interesting web-based system, which allows you to access an online desktop from any location. You can upload files, create contacts, notes and files. If you install this in office, and get your collegues to use it, you can use EyeOS a messaging platform too. So what exactly is EyeOS? Check out what the [...]
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A CALIFORNIAN small web-design outfit has managed to get the patent for most of the media technology which power the world wide wibbly web. Balthaser Online says getting the patent means that it can license nearly any rich-media Internet application across a broad range of devices and networks. Link: Source: The Inquirer: Web design firm [...]
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Rasmus Lerdorf has written an article at his blog which shows how to create a simplified PHP MVC framework to create a simple Web 2.0 application. He calls this a “no-framework PHP MVC framework”. So you want to build the next fancy Web 2.0 site? You’ll need some gear. Most likely in the form of [...]
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What is Serialized PHP? Serialized PHP is a data encoding format for PHP. It is easy to store and transmit and is a convenient format for PHP developers to work with. It’s built-in support in the PHP programming language makes it a good choice for PHP application developers. (from Yahoo) PHP supports this from version [...]
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Here’s something interesting I came across today at Justin Silverton’s blog- SQL Relay. SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix and Linux. SQL Relay is ideal for: speeding up database-driven web-based applications enhancing the scalability of database-driven web-based applications distributing access to replicated databases throttling database access [...]
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Here’s an excellent article which outlines how you can squeeze the maximum performance from your Apache Server. The article outlines both compile time and runtime configuration options. “Apache server performance can be improved by adding additional hardware resources such as RAM, faster CPU etc. But, most of the time, the same result can be achieved [...]
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Here’s a cool piece of Javascript code which allows you to overlay an image zoom over the current page, without having to open a pop-up window to show the zoomed image. “Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all [...]
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Various implementations of Drag & Drop sortable lists using JS and CSS. “In Web applications I’ve seen numerous — and personally implemented a few — ways to rearrange items in a list. All of those were indirect interactions typically involving something like up/down arrows next to each item. Then I came across Simon Cozens’ example [...]
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Here’s a good tutorial on now to create an interactive rating system using CSS. You can combine this with Ajax to create a rating system for your site. Links to the Tutorial: Creating a Star Rater using CSS CSS Star Rating Part Deux
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Another cool site which allows you to look up syntax in PHP, MySQL, Javascript and CSS. Link: Quick Lookup [tags]reference, lookup, syntax, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS[/tags]
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