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  • Using Personas During Development
    Persona's are basically fictional characters who can help your projects succeed! Read this article to find out how!
  • The FOREACH Loop Love Affair with Mr. Array
    Introducing the FOREACH loop
  • The incredible FOR Loop Multi-Tasker
    Introducing the FOR loop
  • The magic of WHILE Loops
    Introducing the WHILE loop
  • Nested IF/ELSE Conditional Statements
    How to use IF/ELSE statements within other IF/ELSE statements. This is called nesting.
  • If/Else Programming Logic
    So how does the computer make a decision? Basically, you provide a statement and then the system will verify whether that statement is true of false. Depending on the result, a different path of code will be executed. This article will show some examples!
  • Taking Advantage of Arrays
    The next step in our quest to conquer PHP is to explore arrays which are similar to variables. Arrays are used when you would like to create many variables which will be similar. Rather than create hundreds of variables, a single array could be used to store all of the related values...
  • PHP Variable Naming Rules
    The following are the PHP variable naming rules which I have taken from w3schools.
  • Using Concatenation with PHP Variables
    How to use concatenation to use multiple variables in the same line of code in order to create more complex and dynamic strings
  • How to use Variables in PHP
    Variables are very important once you start programming in PHP. Variables are used to represent a value and can store numbers, strings or arrays. The main reason variables are so useful is because they can then be used over and over again as many times as necessary.
  • Echo vs Print - Which Should be Used?
    You will notice as soon as you start programming in PHP that you have two options when it comes to displaying text on the screen: Echo or Print. This article explains the difference between the two and suggest which you should use.
  • How to Comment your PHP Code
    In PHP there are three ways you can comment your code
  • Understanding PHP & the Web Server/Browser Relationship
    The first thing that is important to understand regarding PHP is what is going on behind the scenes!
  • Hello World in JavaScript
    Code for creating Hello World in JavaScript
  • List of Google's Hoaxes
    I am constantly searching for a list of all the jokes Google has played on us, so have decided to make a post to sum them all up!
  • Validate your Website for Better SEO
    You can do all the optimization you like, but if you confuse poor Googlebot, he'll turn around and go visit someone else! You need to welcome Googlebot and friends with open arms and feed them all the instructions they need to easily find all the destinations on your site.
  • Opera Browser Powers the Nintendo Wii Internet Channel
    This is not the first time that Nintendo and Opera have teamed up. In June 2006, the Opera powered Nintendo DS Browser was released in Japan, though it is still not currently available in North America.
  • The Battle for Traffic - SEO vs Content
    Quality content builds loyalty, quality SEO builds traffic. Content will allow your site to be successful in the long run, whereas SEO can bring you short term prosperity. Combining both SEO and content is the key to allowing your website to reach its full potential.
  • Top Ten Stupidest Joomla! Administrator Tricks
    Stupid things Joomla administrators tend to do all the time!
  • How to insert CSS on your Website
    Find out how to insert CSS on your website
  • Formatting Text in Wordpress
    Find out how to show HTML code in your Wordpress posts or how to indent text!
  • Your First PHP Page
    Example of building a PHP page for beginners!
  • Get Firebug for Firefox
    Firebug is a plugin for Firefox which is a must-have tool for any web-developer.
  • Virtual Deskotop Manager
    Virtual Desktop Manager is a tool which runs in your task bar, allowing you to switch between four virtual desktops. Each desktop is your actual desktop, though you can give each a unique background. The main purpose of the tool is to allow you to stay organized if you are a heavy multi-tasker.
  • Alt-Tab Replacement
    If you are using Windows XP, which most of us still are and will be for a while, you may be jealous of the way people using Windows Vista get to Alt-Tab. When they wish to switch active window, they get a preview of what the window actually contains. If they have multiple browsers open, they can see which website is open in each and quickly select the one they want.

    There is no longer any need to be jealous! The same functionality is now available for Windows XP absolutely free!
  • Introducing phpBB
    phpBB is an extremely popular forum system written in PHP and available for free. There is no reason to ever pay for a forum system so long as phpBB is around, it is extremely powerful and offers all the same features as any commercial product. The latest version, called Olympus, has been available as a beta since June 2006 and supports things like sub-forums which were some of the lacking features.
  • Introducing PHP-Nuke
    PHP-Nuke is a content managment system similar to Joomla, which gives the administrator the ability to easily post news and manage a community of users.
  • Introducing Joomla
    Joomla can be used to power all sorts of websites. I currently use it for example on my BattleCity Classic website. The great thing about Joomla is that it is extremely flexible. You can use it to manage a small website, or you can turn it into a complete community portal by installing modules that add extra functionality. Joomla is an open source project written in PHP...
  • Learning PHP
    If you plan on doing any serious web development, you will inevitably have to use some form of server-side scripting. PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is one of the options available. ASP.NET and JSP are two other widely used server-side scripting languages.
  • Is Power Evil?
    According to its definition, “power is the capacity to achieve what one wants. [In politics, this refers to] the social ability to induce others to do what one wants”(Dickerson & Flanagan, p.30). Power in itself is not evil, it merely creates the opportunity for evil to exist when self-interested individuals act irresponsibly in exercise of their power. It can therefore be argued that power is at the root of all evil, that those with power must be restrained in order to maintain peace, and ...
  • Definitions of Crime and Approaches to Punishment
    Legal definitions of crime and our approaches to punishment have changed over time in response to changing moral views and convictions about justice. In this essay I will argue that criminal perspectives are continuously changing with time, that these changes come as a result of changes in society, and that these changes lead to a change in the perception of the fundamental nature of justice which in turn has an impact on law and approaches to punishment.
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