Anyone who has a server using PHP has undoubtedly heard of php.ini – it’s the configuration file used to control and customize PHP’s run-time behavior. It provides a simple way to configure... Read More
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So far in these posts on switching from .NET to Ruby we’ve looked at Classes, Namespacing, Documentation, Methods, Variables, and the Ruby Environment. We’ve covered a lot of ground. Today,... Read More
Created and maintained by Jean-Damien Pogolotti, a systems engineer based in Toulouse, France, pChart is a library that creates anti-aliased charts and graphs using PHP. It’s object-oriented code... Read More
There I was, sitting at my desk looking over the upcoming article schedule for Rubysource, when I realized I had inadvertently published TWO articles on Wednesday. The immediate consequence of my... Read More
We’ve finally arrived at the moment of the map. For the last several articles in the Loccasions series , I have promised things like “in the next post we will deal with the map” and “I will... Read More
Let’s start by defining the word “function.” A function is a self-contained piece of code which carries out a particular task (or function!). A key benefit of using functions is that they are... Read More
You have your big players in the cloud like Amazon and Rackspace. Then, there’s Liquid Web with Storm On Demand . They are relatively new to the cloud computing scene but, they aren’t a new... Read More
If you’re just starting out with regular expressions (regex), the syntax can seem a bit puzzling at first (I would recommend Jason Pasnikowski’s article as a good starting point). One of the... Read More
Writing apps in your favorite language on the web is fun and rewarding for developers — and can be a good value proposition for small businesses and start ups. This is easily possible with Google... Read More
$_SESSION is a special array used to store information across the page requests a user makes during his visit to your website or web application. The most fundamental way to explain what a sessions... Read More
As a recap from my previous article , CloudFiles is a an online storage service for your static content. Rackspace provides a Software Development Kit (SDK) for multiple programming languages. They... Read More
Errors are the most common event a developer faces when programming. Errors can be categorized as syntactical, run-time, or logical: missing the semicolon at the end of a statement is an example of... Read More
The working world would be nice if we could only develop and maintain our own code. The reason being: we would inherently understand the concepts, work-flow, and logic within it. But like every... Read More
The working world would be nice if we could only develop and maintain our own code. The reason being: we would inherently understand the concepts, work-flow, and logic within it. But like every... Read More
