We all know Kevin Yank is a pretty smart guy. Now’s your chance to see if you’re as smart as Kev, by taking the PHP & MySQL Quiz (which accompanies his new book “PHP &... Read More
Server Side Coding
” … Just as PHP and MySQL have grown from the young upstarts of the web development world into mature, stable platforms for billion-dollar businesses, this book that I’ve been writing... Read More
Kevin Yank’s done it again! He’s just completed a new 2012 edition of his best-selling book (Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site, 4th Edition) which is now titled - PHP &... Read More
Are you up to speed with Phar, WordPress plugin debelopment, building web services using PHP and SOAP, the Observer Pattern, and persistence agnosticism?Read More
Express is a web framework for Node, inspired by the Sinatra framework for Ruby. It boasts loads of features, high performance, and comes with a handy executable for creating applications quickly. In... Read More
Panayotis Matsinopolouos continues his account of how his company set up a successful MySQL Master-Slave configuration. This is the second of two parts.Read More
There are very good reasons for setting up Master-Slave MySQL replication, not least being able to run backups off the Slave without impeding the performance of the Master. Panayotis Matsinopoulos... Read More
Craig explains how you can write your own random number generator in PHP - and why you'd want to do that given that PHP has its own random generation functions.Read More
In this article we’re going to look at setting up a static file server using Node. There’s plenty of modules available to help us do this, but we’re going to focus on three of them:... Read More
It was such a cliche of a title, I just had to use it. I’m sure you have heard of the great BDD tool Cucumber , but what you may not know about is how smelly cukes can be. I have recently been... Read More
Web applications usually follow a synchronous communication model. However, non-interactive and long-running tasks (such as report generation) are better suited for asynchronous execution. One way... Read More
Maybe customizing Twitter Bootstrap’s designlike this wasn’t such a good idea! Back in November I discussed various options for integrating Twitter Bootstrap into a Rails 3.1 app, including... Read More
