October 2011

Episode 135 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Raena Jackson-Armitage (@raena) and Mick Olinik (FBmick.com) the... Read More
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create an illustration of a fedora hat in Photoshop. If you’re a beginner to intermediate user, the hat is a fairly complicated illustration, and while... Read More
PHP MASTER: Write Cutting-Edge Code
PHP is the most pervasive server-side programming language in the world. It drives: 77% of all database-driven sites. Wikipedia.org, Facebook.com and WordPress.com many millions of other sites  ... Read More
 
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What can you do if your web service insists on returning XML when your JavaScript code wants JSON? Craig provides all the code you need to transform XML data to a native JavaScipt object.Read More
 
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If you choose to resell someone else's services, you carry the responsibility to your client.Miles Burke recently experienced a breakdown of that trust.Read More
 
 
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Miles Burke finds there can be great value in going over time commitments on older jobs to close the gap between expectation and reality on future projects.Read More
 
To create a line graph, I am going to reuse the same project that we used for drawing bars in the previous part of the series. We won’t need the logic for drawing bars anymore, so comment out a... Read More
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A common complaint about OAuth is that it is very difficult to understand, but perhaps some of that confusion is because of an expectation that the abstraction provided by a third-party library will... Read More
 
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Want to break into tech publishing and make your mark in the web development community? We're looking for an enthusiastic techie –... Read More
 
 
This is the second post in a three part series focused on setting up EC2 as a sandbox for application developers. I assume you have an AWS account with Amazon; if you don’t, please read Part 1 to... Read More
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Feelancing is either a feast or a famine. Right? Wrong. Although this is a common belief, it's not that hard to break out of the feast-or-famine cycle. Georgina shows how.Read More
 
581-xml-json-proxy
JSON makes Ajax easy, but what if your web service returns XML? Craig solves the problem with a XML to JSON proxy server written in PHP.Read More
 
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Miles Burke delivers the penultimate installment of his Alphabet of Web Business.Read More
 
Every business today, small or big uses IT to automate business process. While big business have capital and man power to develop and maintain software and hardware, for small businesses it always... Read More