David Mytton
Social networking sites like Facebook provide site owners and developers with myriad new ways to promote their offerings. Here, David walks you through the many ways in which your apps can interact... Read More
Last year, I wrote an article on Coding Standards. That is all very well with your own work, but what happens when you are using code from another programmer who uses a different style from your own?... Read More
I arrived back from Toronto yesterday, although I was too tired to do anything despite getting home at about 10am! But I’m now ready to continue posting regularly. I am getting ready to release... Read More
When we (as in my business partner and I) started developing the third version of our open source program (our first ever ‘commercial’ product), Olate Download, we had to decide how we... Read More
I was excited to read the AJAX: Usable Interactivity with Remote Scripting article by Cameron Adams in the hope of finding out out a lot more about AJAX, particularly how to actually use it! The... Read More
Whilst I was doing some research for my PDO entry on Wez Furlong’s website, I found out about PHPScript: PHPScript is PHP’s own ActiveScript interface. In practical terms, this means that... Read More
Hi! I’m David Mytton the new SitePoint PHP Blogger and I am going to be writing for this blog for at least the next 3 months. I am going to try and focus on technical posts to provide some... Read More
MySQL is the database solution of choice for countless sites around the world. How did MySQL get so big? Who's behind it? How is the product developed? And what's in store for future releases? Zack... Read More
Who needs coding standards? You do! Sure, your own personal style is fine if you work alone, but if you're part of a team, or want to understand your code when you return to it in a year's time,... Read More
Mambo is just one of countless open source CMS products on the market... So, what makes it an award winning piece of software? David chats with the Mambo project's manager, Robert Castley, about past... Read More
After talking with the product's creator, David takes vB3.0 for a spin and finds it has some great benefits ... and a few pitfalls. Is it worth the money? Will David become a vBulletin convert? Read... Read More
Since late 2002, when he took over the leading role from John Percival, Kier Darby has been working hard to improve on the already-lauded vBulletin. Here, he talks to David about the past, the... Read More
A forum could be a pivotal feature of your site -- don't just choose the first bulletin board software that comes along! Here, David reviews the key players in the forums software field to help you... Read More
What is Xaraya? What does it have in common with PostNuke, and how does it differ? David asks these questions and more in this detailed interview with John Cox, head of the team's Project Management... Read More




