Location-based applications are all the rage. What used to be prohibitively expensive GPS devices are now sitting in the of pockets of a great many people, embedded within smartphones and other... Read More
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Location-based applications are all the rage. What used to be prohibitively expensive GPS devices are now sitting in the of pockets of a great many people, embedded within smartphones and other... Read More
FusionCharts lets you configure and deploy multi-level, drill down charts to present data in an attractive, simple interface. Rob Frieman & Michael McCarthy show you how.Read More
Showcases are a great way to show your visitors your latest addition to your portfolio or to present the latest product or article. Many sites use this technique to cram information into an area so... Read More
In the previous article we thinly disguised a Rack tutorial as a comparison of PHP and Ruby. The aim of the article was to point out that most PHP developers start out on a pretty well thought out... 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
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
Git is a (distributed) version control system. What is that? A version control system is software that allows a programmer to track and manage the history of a project, where such a project could be... Read More
Following on from my last piece on user targeting for the mobile web , in this article we’ll look at validation and testing for mobile to ensure your site is just as compliant and bug-free on... Read More
So, you’ve come up with a HTML email design you’re happy with. Woo! Before you start mailing it out, you’re going to need to test it. There are so many email web apps and desktop clients out... Read More
Ruby golf is the art of writing code that uses as few characters as possible. The idea originates in the world of Perl (where it is, unsurprisingly, known as Perl Golf). As a language, Perl is well... 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
Most people know that testing your websites is a good idea, but after some time testing can become tedious. What if a lot of this testing process could be automated so you don’t have to go trough... Read More
Part Two: Recovering an EC2 Instance from a Snapshot. Skill Level: Intermediate. Operating System(s): Linux. Read More
