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PHP: Rendering Web Pages Using the Composite View Design Pattern

Nisha Singh — 2010-09-02

Welcome to the conclusion of a five-part series on the Composite View design pattern. This article will focus on a way to make use of this design pattern when you're building dynamic web pages. It involves a simple two-step rendering process.

Resolve many-to-many relations a bit different with MySQL

Nisha Singh — 2010-09-02

In database modeling, a m:n relationship is usually resolved by an additional table. But what if this relation is used only for archiving and the number of links in the resulting table is not too high? In that context,

Paths and URLs in WordPress

Amit Singh — 2010-09-02

I was reading an article on Sitepoint about custom write panels the other day when I got heavily annoyed. The direct reason for this was one of their code examples and the authors apparent incomplete knowledge of the WordPress API's most basic functions and constants

A complete idiot’s guide to git-svn-migrate, 3 steps to batch convert Subversion to Git

Amit Singh — 2010-09-02

I had 142 legacy project Subversion repositories lying around I wanted converted to Git and, since I’m lazy, I pulled on my bash boots and wrote me a script to do the work!

With the git-svn-migrate scripts I wrote, you can batch convert all of your Subversion repositories in just 3 steps.

What's in a framework, experiences from Rails and Drupal

Amit Singh — 2010-09-02

Over the last two years in particular I've learned a lot about frameworks and I'd like to share an observation about which framework feels right to me for which situations and why.

The different kinds of testing

Amit Singh — 2010-09-02

I've been consulting on a Zend Framework application, with the goal of repairing the test suite and expanding it. In this article I'll describe the different categories of testing, as applied to a Zend Framework 1 application, but this classification pertains to every web application based on object-oriented programming.

Tutorial: How to Group Fields in Views With a Div or Span Tag

Amit Singh — 2010-09-02

This is a howto for wrapping a div around a few of your view fields (and not others). This is useful, for instance, for being able to group all one's content so that it floats left but does not float around an image.

My (SQL) WorkLog: MySQL: Kill sleeping connections

Savita — 2010-09-02

It’s all about My (SQL) favorite tools, utilities, tips, tricks, code snippets, discoveries and best practices.

Test New Fonts using HTML 5 and CSS 3

Nisha Singh — 2010-09-02

Yesterday, I was reading a post on ycombinator about the New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro. I decided to check out this new font using a cool HTML 5 application called font dragr.

JQuery image plugins/galleries you should never miss!

Rutwick R. Gangurde — 2010-09-02

Here's a list of some JQuery image galleries/plugin which will add some coolness quotient to your websites!

Quality Control - Using WordPress as a Ticket Tracking

Savita — 2010-09-02

Quality Control is free WordPress Theme that designed to allow the creation, and tracking, of tickets.

ocPortal - Advanced Open source CMS with many inbuilt features.

Solidstone — 2010-09-02

ocPortal CMS have all the features you would expect from a CMS as part of its product. It is built in PHP and MySQL.

Contributing to ZendFramework

Amit Singh — 2010-09-02

Beginners articles are important to put on the web since every one of us had it's beginnings and these are the sort of articles where many people decide to either use the software for a certain project or not.
As you might see, this article is not only a guide on contributing bugfixes, but also I want to motivate you to just give it a try.

PHP: What is More Powerful Than list() – Perhaps extract()

Nisha Singh — 2010-09-02

Recently I wrote about list() in PHP which is indeed very powerful when assigning variable values from array elements.

How to Target IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox and Chrome/Safari with CSS

Nisha Singh — 2010-09-02

Looking to learn about CSS and browser compatibility? CSS hacks or CSS filters are a necessary part of web design to create websites that look consistent across different browsers. This article will show you how to use these filters to target IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

New PHP Licensing Option for Cloud Computing

Nisha Singh — 2010-09-02

Zend recently announced the "Zend Unlimited Subscription" for its PHP product line as a way to address questions of licensing when the number of running instances of software is highly variable - as it is in the Cloud.

XML Literals: Creating XML with a Variable Namespace

Nisha Singh — 2010-09-02

This post covers the technique for creating XML that includes an XML namespace (xmlns) attribute, when that attribute is not predefined at compile time.

25 Essential Tutorials And Resources For Learning CSS3

Nisha Singh — 2010-02-09

There are many tutorials and resources for the CSS3. Most of the browsers such as Firefox, Safari already support some of the CSS3 properties. It is essential for a web designer to know about CSS3. Today, I will share the best tutorials and resources for learning about CSS3. These are the best tutorials I could find on CSS3.

Javascript scripts block in Firefox

Amit Singh — 2010-02-11

Scripts loaded using document .write block other downloads in Firefox.

Unfortunately, document .write was invented. That problem was made a bzillion times worse when ads decided to use document .write to insert scripts into the content publisher’s page.

WotdPress 3.0: Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint!

Amit Singh — 2010-02-24

There’s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted the official word. For 3.0, the main user-facing feature we wanted to include was a better site menu management system. Currently, dealing with menus is clunky, using Page IDs or in some cases categories, if a theme uses categories instead of pages f