Imagine a friend of yours approaches you one day and would like you to build her a website so she can showcase her photography. She wants to be able to easily upload her photographs and have them... Read More
December 2011
Sometimes the idea for an article strikes me out-of-the-blue, like a lightning bolt or an airborne toxin. The quality of these sudden onset ideas varies greatly, and it usually directly proportional... Read More
Traditional enterprize systems have well developed designs & strategies around relational databases. Relational database products are well developed not only from a data consistency point of view... Read More
Session are a tool which helps the web programmer overcome the stateless nature of the internet. You can use them to build shopping carts, monitor visits to a website, and even track how a user... Read More
Thanks to Karthick Kumar of Killer Icons, we’re offering DesignFestival users a free download of this Killer Social Media Icons set in PSD format. Consider it it our Christmas gift! You can use... Read More
PHP’s default session handling behavior provides all you need in most cases, but there may be times when you want to expand the functionality and store session data differently.Read More
It's the start of a new year, and a great time for checking whether you're on-track to meet your goal income for the current financial year. Georgina provides a guide to help you reach your income... Read More
PHP has a vast selection of built-in string handling functions that allow you to easily manipulate strings in almost any possible way. However, learning all these functions, remembering what they... Read More
You’ve probably noticed a few articles as of late on SitePoint and its properties discuss Heroku and their offerings; they’re definitely shaking things up in the cloud services arena! In fact, I... Read More
PHP has a vast selection of built-in string handling functions that allow you to easily manipulate strings in almost any possible way. However, learning all these functions, remembering what they... Read More
It's easy to become risk-adverse during tough times. But he who takes the greater risk reaps the greater reward.Read More
Integrating with Facebook from PHP is easy with the help of Facebook’s PHP SDK and some HTTP libraries like Zend_Http_Client or PEAR HTTP_Request2. In this article I’ll show you how to get... Read More
Amazon Web Services’ S3 storage solution is useful for many things, and serves as the CDN for many major websites. But despite the portfolio of high-profile use cases for the service, it’s still... Read More
Stripes are a great way to create some energy in your background or just give your designs some texture. This collection gives you two sets of tools: generators and images. The stripe generators... Read More
