AJAX Hello World!

This tutorial will teach you how to create a hello world web page using AJAX technologies. Odds are if you found this tutorial, then you have created a “Hello World!” program before.

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Programming is Hard: Let’s work to make it a little easier

Great idea. Lots of nice snippets, including shell scripts and optimizations. In their words “Programming is Hard is a public repository for links and code snippets. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets or links, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world (or not, you can keep them private!)”

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An elegant approach to Web services: REST on Rails

As Ruby experiences increasing success, developers are seeking to integrate their Ruby applications with applications written in other languages. Rails provides excellent support for Web services. This article introduces Web services in Rails and focuses on a strategy known as Representational State Transfer (REST).

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Five common PHP database problems

Discover five common database problems that occur in PHP applications — including database schema design, database access, and the business logic code that uses the database — as well as their solutions.

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Docking boxes (dbx)

Docking boxes (dbx) adds animated drag ‘n’ drop, snap-to-grid, and show/hide-contents functionality to any group of elements. And … in what might be another world-first for brothercake – dbx is fully accessible to the keyboard as well as the mouse, an action I’ve re-dubbed “press ‘n’ push”

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So how do you code an AJAX Web page?

See hands-on examples for creating lighter, faster interactive sites

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