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Joshua Tauberer updates the classic XML.com article “What Is RDF” by rewriting it from scratch. Tauberer claims that RDF is more relevant than ever in the world of Web 2.0.

PHP Filtering with OWASP

This week you’ll learn about solid software design practices, many of them borrowed from working with Windows applications. The result is the development of a Web based drawing package. By Guyon Roche. 0802

Dave Hoover returns with an update about canvas-powered web apps, adding interactivity to the method he described in his Supertrain article.

There’s no shortage of stock market oriented communities coming online, it’s almost hard to tell them apart, but today’s entrant is particularly interesting. SocialPicks is focused on reputation building and small group collaboration. They have just begun to offer limited beta accounts.
Users enter their stock trading activities and thoughts then befriend and […]

Toying with the idea of building your first web site? Or are you tired of being asked to build sites for family and friends? In this hands-on tutorial, Ian Lloyd unwraps the building blocks of web design and development, and shows exactly how they should be used! With this tutorial, readers can begin to build a complete, standards-compliant web site from scratch — Ian assumes no prior knowledge at all.

Greg Brown explains how to use basic object-oriented techniques to build more robust AJAX applications.

Validating PHP User Sessions

If you re one of those PHP developers that want to extend your background in object-based applications then this series might be quite attractive to you. In these three tutorials of which this is the second you ll learn how to simulate a simple Model-View-Controller schema which can be easily expanded to construct more complex relationships between the different entities in this case applicable specifically to PHP classes….

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What if your site could change the appearance of images on-the-fly, in response to user interaction? Well, it can. As Michael explains, by integrating ImageMagick with your site, you can allow users to resize maps, rotate aerial shots, zoom in on product shots, and more.

BitMasks - Emulate Unix Permissions in PHP

Would you like to learn how to simulate an MVC-based system with PHP If so you ve come to the right place. This is the first article in a three-part series that will show you how to build this schema in PHP by constructing a few classes that represent what is needed….

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There’s lots of instant messaging news today. Google isn’t letting the fact that it has less than 1% market share and only 44,000 people used its Google Talk client last month get it down. Tonight they’ve released three significant new features to the product - file transfers, voicemail and music status. Information on all of […]

In our third and final article covering MySQL security you will learn about client access control. There are exercises included with answers so you can test yourself on what you learned. This article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the em MySQL 5. Certification Guide em written by Paul Dubois et al. Sams 2 5 ISBN 672328127 ….

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Welcome to the last installment of the series Overloading classes in PHP. Comprised of three tutorials this series shows you how to overload your classes whether you re using PHP 4 or PHP 5 and explains in detail the implementation of the __set __get and __call methods in order to overload property accesses and method calls respectively….

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This week we examine extra functionality in MSXML which provides additional properties and methods that can be used with the DOM interfaces discussed previously. You’ll see examples and learn how to create similar functionality in Mozilla. By Apress. 0705

This week you’ll learn how to use JavaScript to manipulate XML documents. Some of the topics covered are the key DOM interfaces and the differences between Internet Explorer (IE) and Mozilla. By Apress. 0628

This week you’ll learn about the creative process from the artist’s perspective. Broken into three parts, you’ll learn how to stay creatively alive, how the images were shot, manipulated, prepared for printing, and more. By O’Reilly Media Inc. 0606

If you’ve been looking for a way to optimize your Web site, check out Google Sitemaps. Among other things, you can tell Google how important a given page is relative to others and you can learn what Google thinks of your Web site! By Matthew Coers. 0602

This week we look at the Math object, a JavaScript object used to perform mathematical operations such as obtaining the values of predefined mathematical constants. It can also be used to generate random numbers. By Lee Underwood. 0609

For Web developers who want to add more interactivity to their Web sites, this book is packed with information. It’s well written, but if you’re a novice additional programming background is recommended. To learn more, read on… By Lee Underwood. 0623

An important difference between a managed language like PHP, and an unmanaged language like C is control over memory pointers. Here you’ll learn that traditional memory management functions are almost never used directly by the PHP source code. By Pearson Education. 0619

Want to boost your traffic? Learn how to improve your rankings by creating a list of specific keywords, create a theme based content site, use the Overture Search Tool and more. By Robert Spadinger. 0630

Apache Ant is a powerful build tool. This week you’ll learn what Ant property files are, how to use Ant’s capabilities to better integrate with IBM Rational ClearCase, how to implement Ant build files and more. By Kevin A. Lee. 0717

A common feature appearing on more and more Web sites is support for comment posting by users, which tends to appear at the bottom of a Web page or article. Our own Perl-based comment system is the focus of this article and you’ll learn how to use this on static Web pages. By Dan Ragle. 0712