Sep 6, 2009 Movable Type Leave a comment
While working on one cool MovableType application I remembered one very annoying thing that made me wasting plenty of time a while ago – private entry tags.
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Aug 5, 2009 Databases 5 Comments
Object Relational Mapping (ORM), is a database design approach that makes entities stored in the database behave like objects (classes) from a programming perspective. ORM is a level above actual database operations – writing actual SQL queries is excluded from development and taken care of by ORM framework.
By abstracting actual database access with ORM, development process can be more productive and result in more reliable applications. Here you will find a quick intro to ORM in PHP.
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Jul 23, 2009 User Interfaces 7 Comments
Writing web applications today is a tiresome and time consuming process. Browser quirks, maintenance of huge JavaScript and AJAX components may be real time black hole for many projects. Many JavaScript/AJAX frameworks eases this process by allowing developers to build and maintain complex front-end applications with just few function calls. I have listed here only several of them, free and probably most known, but there are definitely much more available on the market. I personally do not switch from one to another for every project and prefer to stick with jQuery, on my personal opinion, most robust and best supported Javascript framework out there. But I hope this my list will be helpful for those developers, who still looking the best one to work with.
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Jul 8, 2009 User Interfaces 38 Comments
If you tired of writing the same CSS-code over and over again with each next project then it is time to start collecting a set of nice CSS classes and ID’s for your own. Or wait! It is already collected in numerous CSS frameworks. Using them, you can get a perfect default stylesheet, save your time and ensure the quality of your code. Meet them now and choose a right one for yourself.
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Jul 6, 2009 User Interfaces 10 Comments
Embedding custom font into a website has always been a painful experience for web developers and designers and was often unfairly ignored on many websites. Nowadays, the latest trends in web design brought the idea back to life with new image replacement techniques.
In this article you’ll find probably most known examples of these techniques and I fairly hope that it may help you to build your website more attractive to visitors.
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Jun 29, 2009 Content management systems (CMS) 6 Comments
This article shows current trends in CMS development industry and probably can help someone to find the right CMS for any occasion. The purpose of this is not to describe all cons of pros of each product but provide general roadmap for those who trying to find a right CMS for the specific requirements.
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