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If you’ve reached the point of exhaustion trying to keep up with answering mountains of email, you’re ready to learn about autoresponders. Using them properly can make a huge difference to your bottom line. To learn more, read on. By Alex Perez-Prat. 1221

Reading RSS feeds in PHP: Part 2

Last week we discussed design patterns and polymorphism. This week we examine overloading and more. This article the last of four parts is excerpted from chapter two of the book em Advanced PHP Programming em written by George Schlossnagle Sams ISBN 672325616 ….

This week, Sreekumar Pillai begins a two-part series on OpenLaszlo, a zero-install platform for rich web applications. In this first part, Pillai introduces the OpenLaszlo Hello World app.

Last week we continued our discussion of the object-oriented features of PHP 5 by taking a first look at design patterns. This week we will continue looking at design patterns and examine polymorphism. This article the third of four parts is excerpted from chapter two of the book em Advanced PHP Programming em written by George Schlossnagle Sams ISBN 672325616 ….

In this article the first of a three-part series you will be introduced to the basics of creating directors and builder objects with PHP 5. As usual there will be copious examples to help you quickly start using the builder pattern in your own PHP projects….

If you spend your SEO dollars - and all your time - attracting visitors to your site, it might be time to refocus. As Kent explains, if your site doesn’t generate conversions, your search budget’s wasted. He presents his top five tips for ensuring good - and growing - conversion rates.

Fast-track your way to AJAX supremacy with some of the better-trained libraries. Coach Dan Webb puts World Cup contenders Dojo, Mochikit, Prototype, and YUI through their paces, as they battle for a position in your next AJAX line-up. Full player profiles, as well as game highlights, are included!

Take your interactive web apps to the next level with Adobe’s Flex 2 — it’s fast, phat, and free! Join Josh as he walks through the process of developing a simple Flash project that shows just how easy it is to build cross-platform web apps with Flex 2.

This is the continuation of a three part series. This week we look at transforming XML with XSLT, querying XML with XPath, evaluating XPath Expressions, serializing XML and more. By David Flanagan. 0925

If you re one of those PHP developers who want to explore the package of classes that come bundled with the Standard PHP Library SPL then fear not because you re at the right place. Welcome to the concluding part of the series A Close Look at the DirectoryIterator Class in PHP 5. In three parts this series introduces the most important methods attached to this class and shows you how to use them by mean of extensive hands-on examples….

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If you re looking for an overview of the new object-oriented features of PHP 5 you ve found a good place to start. This article the first of several parts is excerpted from chapter two of the book em Advanced PHP Programming em written by George Schlossnagle Sams ISBN 672325616 ….

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Five years after XML Schema’s release, it has matured into a key XML technology, despite its warts and arguably superior competitors. But how are people actually using it? Paul Kiel’s article this week answers that question.

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This week you’ll learn how to use JavaScript to work with XML data. Topics convered are obtaining XML documents, loading a document from the network, parsing XML text, XML documents from data islands and manipulating XML with the DOM API. By David Flanagan. 0918

Are you interested in having at your disposal a quick reference for working with the DirectoryIterator class that comes with PHP 5 Then this might be the article that you ve been waiting for Welcome to the second tutorial of the series A Close Look at the DirectoryIterator Class in PHP 5. Over the course of this set of installments you ll find complete coverage of the most important methods bundled with this class and learn how to take advantage of their excellent functionality….

Search Engine Optimization should be considered, and implemented, throughout the planning, design, development, and maintenance stages of your site’s evolution. But where should you begin? And how will you stay on track? This complete checklist will show you how to conquer the challenge of SEO in your next project.

On this page are links that will allow you to add several of our Jupitermedia Web development sites to the search bar of your Mozilla, Firefox, or Internet Explorer 7 (as of this writing) search bar. A tutorial is also included. By Dan Ragle. 0906

Last week we began our discussion of PHP standalone scripts. This week we ll be talking about child processes shared resources signals and writing daemons. The second of three parts this article is excerpted from chapter five of the book em Advanced PHP Programming em written by George Schlossnagle Sams ISBN 672325616 ..

If you re one of those avid PHP developers who wants to learn how to apply the decorator design pattern within your Web applications then this group of articles might be quite appealing to you. Welcome to the second part of the series Using the Decorator pattern with PHP. Comprised of two parts this series walks you through the core concepts of using this pattern in PHP and shows you its practical edge with numerous hands-on examples….

Having trouble applying Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask filter to your creations? Using the Unsharp Mask can be tricky business, but, as Corrie explains, some good technique, a little patience, and an artistic eye is all you need to sharpen your images to a professional standard.

This week you’re going to learn how to create a Color Picker similar to the one used in Photoshop, but entirely in JavaScript! By Mark Kahn. 0901

Lindsey Simon describes XSLDataGrid, an approach to dynamic display of tabular data using XSLT and Ajax.

Having trouble applying Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask filter to your creations? Using the Unsharp Mask can be tricky business, but, as Corrie explains, some good technique, a little patience, and an artistic eye is all you need to sharpen your images to a professional standard.

Bruce Perry’s latest piece introduces GWT, the Google Web Toolkit, which is a kind of Java to Ajax compiler. It’s a very interesting new development in the world of very interactive web apps.