Tag Archives: Web Development

Last October 8, Apache Friends released new versions of XAMMP for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. I use XAMMP on Windows, but for Mac OS X, I use MAMP – the Mac OS X release of XAMMP is still … Continue reading →

Here is a sample code to detect that a browser is closed or a link has been clicked. This detects if the user is exiting the page. I am using this for locking/unlocking table rows in my database. <script type="text/javascript"> … Continue reading →

For those who have doubts in using the Zend Framework, maybe you should read this post. As we come near to launching fav.or.it I thought I would share my thoughts on building the project completely on Zend Framework. When we … Continue reading →

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Here is a nice little list from the BBC: CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING A sophisticated phishing attack that exploits weaknesses in the legitimate sites of financial institutions to make attempts to trick people into handing over confidential details more plausible. A successful … Continue reading →

A very interesting post since I have been keeping an eye on RoR for sometime now. Some snippets below… There are rather significant syntactical differences between PHP and Ruby. For example PHP requires semicolons at the end of lines and … Continue reading →

Like the author, I don’t know Ruby on Rails. But I have been hearing about it a lot for the past few months. Recently, I had a discussion with a friend about the beauty of RoR – How fast development … Continue reading →

I own starcraftdomain.com – the thing is, I am too busy at the moment and the domain name will probably go stale if I don’t do anything about it. I have decided to give it to anyone willing to develop … Continue reading →

YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you: Performance report card HTTP/HTML summary … Continue reading →

I just found this at digg. Pretty interesting – but Zend Framework should be there I know it is not a tool, but who cares. A snippet: After working on several large scale PHP projects, and writing a lot of … Continue reading →