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A PHP Class for Facebook Application Development

Raju Mazumder at Style PHP has an interesting set of classes he wrote to interact with Facebook, for example, to get user profile information, send notifications to the Facebook user, and publish news... 
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Who’s Your Coding Buddy?

“Busy practitioners are sometimes reluctant to spend time examining a colleague’s work. You might be leery of a coworker who asks you to review his code. Does he lack confidence? Does he want... 
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10 Free CAPTCHA Scripts and Services

“In the past days I received several requests from my readers to suggest some CAPTCHA scripts and services quickly to embed into a web page. This post proposes a list of ten interesting scripts and... 
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An Introduction to Refactoring (in PHP)

“Code refactoring is not to be confused with code optimization. Code optimization is a completely different ball game, where the goal is to run the program as fast as possible by using as few CPU... 
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How to Create a Blog with Twitter, Search, and RSS

“Have you ever wanted to create a simple multi-person blog, but didn’t want to bother setting up an entire WordPress installation? If so then we’ve got just the answer. By combining Twitter Search,... 
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Top 100 Software Engineering Books, Ever

Jurgen Appelo has a Knol page with his list of the best software engineering books. It’s got some things old and some things new. My favorite software books tend to focus on teams, how they do and... 
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The Danger of Commenting Out Code

“The Broken Window Theory proposes the idea that if we do one bad thing in our code (i.e. break a window) then it becomes more likely that the next person who encounters that code will do something... 
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Google Releases Web Browser Security Handbook

“Browsers have garnered renewed scrutiny from security researchers in recent years. In 2007, computer-science students at Stanford University found a way to bypass the same-origin policy in browsers,... 
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Simple Javascript Image Rotation Code

I like simplicity, especially with code. After wasting hours trying to tweak a flashy image rotation Javascript, complete with .js files to include, I gave up, called up the Google, and found this wonderfully... 
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AJAX Apps Ripe Targets for JavaScript Hijacking

“Fortify Software has documented what the security firm is calling a “pervasive and critical” vulnerability in Web 2.0 applications—specifically, in the ability of an attacker... 
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Using Print Stylesheets

Found an article, Using Print Stylesheets that has some good resources on how to code CSS layouts so they convert well to printed pages. I typically never do the print stylesheet which lets the page print... 
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How to turn a Static HTML page into a PHP page

In browsing the Web Pro World discussion boards, I found a great topic that shows how to add code to an htaccess file on Linux running an Apache web server so that files with a .html extension can contain... 
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Krugle: A Google for Coders

“For most people, open source is a synonym for free software. But for programmers, open source is about sharing code, building on the work of others and not having to reinvent the wheel — at... 
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PHPEdit 2.0 Is Released

“PHPEdit is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed for PHP professionals. Includes advanced php related tools, powerful debugger and profiler, code beautifier, help integration, real... 
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No Execute Flag Waves Off Buffer Attacks

“If programmers wrote perfect software that could never be crashed by an overload of data, buffer overflow attacks would be a thing of the past. Various defensive techniques can also squelch overflow... 
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How to Kill Linux

“While chatting over dinner with the executives of a middleware company during the recent RSA conference for encryption and security in San Francisco, I heard about a secret project. It concerned... 
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Microsoft May Offer Peek at SQL Server Code

“Will the software industry’s wave of open-source databases spill onto Microsoft’s turf? Perhaps. The software giant is considering making the source code for its SQL Server database... 
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Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

“Desktop applications have a richness and responsiveness that has seemed out of reach on the Web. The same simplicity that enabled the Web’s rapid proliferation also creates a gap between the... 
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The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards

“A significant portion of any Web designer’s development time is spent ensuring that code works and looks right in a broad range of browsers. If your organization is in the advantageous position... 
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At the Heart of the Open-Source Revolution: Interview with Mitch Kapor

“Having made his fortune during the heyday of proprietary software, the 54-year-old Kapor finds himself at the forefront of two foundations devoted to open-source software development. He is both... 
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