Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

PHP Speed: Private vs Public Member And Static Methods

I did some speed testing for my PHP framework(still alpha) and I discovered some surprising results.For the test I have PHP 5.2.3 and MySQL 5.0.41 with 100000...

11 replies - 4046 views - 01/28/09 by Vladimir Carrer in Articles

Adding a YUI Sortable DataTable to a NetBeans Web Project

This exercise demonstrates how to add a sortable YUI DataTable to a web page. As Yahoo! UI's demo page states,

1 replies - 9386 views - 01/27/09 by giunipero in Articles

Creating XML Documents in PHP

There's lots of reasons why you'd want to make XML documents using PHP. Maybe you're writing your own RSS feed or implementing a REST service. Whatever the...

0 replies - 5470 views - 01/23/09 by Charlie Key in News

Code Refactoring - Freaking Awesome

We have all gone back and looked at code we wrote in the past and thought "Wow, this is ugly.", or "wtf was I thinking?", or even...

12 replies - 12043 views - 01/16/09 by Mike Bernat in News

Flex & PHP Tutorial - Transmitting data using JSON

To make sure we don't get too stuck in a rut with our tutorial posts I decided to branch out a little bit and talk about Adobe Flex 2.0. I recently spent a lot...

0 replies - 7525 views - 01/15/09 by Charlie Key in News

Open Source : How Do You Stay Up To Date?

I Love the concepts and beliefs behind Open Source. I use Open Source libraries, applications etc. all the time. One of the things I have always found a...

18 replies - 11179 views - 01/10/09 by Schalk Neethling in News

A Year In Retrospect - Web Builder Zone's Top 10 For 2008

2008 Has been a real mixed bag. From great browser releases from Opera and Mozilla to the latest world economic turmoil. We all definitely have some things to...

0 replies - 2268 views - 12/23/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Discussion: Why Web Designers Often Use PHP Over ASP.NET?

Some time ago my colleague asked me "I like to read blogs about webdesign, but why are they mostly PHP-oriented?". Huh, really, why? Ihaven't thought...

4 replies - 2963 views - 12/11/08 by dzovan in News

Using PHP To Access Files - The Basics

The first thing I wanted to know after learning the basics of PHP was how to store my data on a more permanent basis. PHP is all well and good but without the...

1 replies - 4281 views - 12/08/08 by Mike Bernat in News

My PHP Best Practices

PHP's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness. Flexibility.There are an infinite number of ways to perform the same task which PHPwill happily do...

1 replies - 5945 views - 11/27/08 by Mike Bernat in News

Creating a NetBeans PHP Project from a Subversion Repository

This article describes my experience in creating a PHP project in NetBeans IDE 6.5 from the repository version of Mediawiki. The project included 3 kinds of...

0 replies - 5608 views - 11/20/08 by Jeff Rubinoff in Articles

Building a Flickr Slideshow with NetBeans IDE 6.5

In this screencast, Justin Bolter, Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems, shows you how to build a PHP Flickr slideshow using NetBeans IDE 6.5 . Bolter...

1 replies - 7968 views - 11/19/08 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Language Specialization

Didn't you just totally sell out? -- Obie Fernandez @ Rails Summit Latin AmericaObie and I are good friends. He wasn't trying to insult me. I was talking about...

5 replies - 6252 views - 10/30/08 by Jay Fields in News

Implementing ArrayAccess for Easy Array Usage

This past week, I was using PHP’s DOMDocument class to work with some XML generation. It’s pretty similar to Javascript’s DOM manipulation. The XML I...

0 replies - 1907 views - 10/27/08 by mcarthurgfx in News

Language Construct vs. Design Pattern - PHP Arrays In Java

Automated migration is a difficult task because of many reasons. One of them is the need to ensure a good code quality for the generated code. Migrating from...

3 replies - 4574 views - 10/24/08 by Robert Enyedi in News