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PHPT - Testing for the Rest of Us
Unit Testing?Unit testing refers to writing pieces of code (tests) that verify that small portions (units) of a software program work as intended. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing) …
The AJAX Application Delivery Challenge
IntroductionWhile Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX (“Asynchronous JavaScript and XML”) provide the means by which you can satisfy the demands of your users, these emerging technologies can …
PHP Source Filtering
IntroductionSource fi ltering is a simple way to modify the language you program in. It is usually used for making small changes to and extensions of a …
Broadband Speed Testing With PHP and JavaScript
IntroductionA long time ago, we could only use text to communicate across the world. But as times change, the masses prefer to junk textheavy web site that …
PHP for Non-profits
It Is All About ManagementNon-profit organizations have something in common with companies as diverse as Amazon and Sony: although both are without a doubt technology-based, they depend …
E-Business 2.0
First of all, let’s look at the target audience for e-business. According to one of the existing classifi cations an Internetbased solutions can target consumers (B2C), the …
Riding the Rails
IntroductionThe truckers on the interstate have been known to ride the rails. -- Lyrics by Primus with all the buzz about the iPhone finally starting to die …
Building Commercially Successful Software
IntroductionThe challenge for ISVs is to understand what role they have in contributing to the massive growth and how they can best benefi t from the growth. …
Transforming Economic Development in Asia Through Powerful Local Software Ecosystems
IntroductionIt’s an exciting time to be an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). Much of my days are spent talking with government offi cials in Asia who, without exception, …
Communities 2.0
There’s no lack of reports on successful Web 2.0 community projects. This is by no means surprising as the latest community projects provide advanced interactive experience for …
XML Data Management
XML – Information Interchange Backbone for ApplicationsToday, when XML is used as a platform-independent data exchange format, it can assist in solving a number of problems. XML …
A PRADO Framework Case Study
Introduction“PRADO is not like Rails, it’s a Magnetic Levitation Hovertrain.” -- Tobias MunkIn 2001 I started my self-written class collection beginning with a MySQL connector. Later it …
PHP Permissions
IntroductionWe could just say that every web user has his or her own user ID and this fact should be reflected in the files and directories that …
Custom Stream Wrappers
IntroductionData can be written to and read from a wide variety of resources. You may want to read some information through HTTP, write something else via FTP; …
AJAX Is a Hype?
AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript XML communication offers a lightweight approach to integrating applications in portals, traditional clients with an HTML browser and mobile devices. The principle of …
CMS 2.0
Consumers of CMS-based solutions largely fall into three categories: corporate users, Internet users and third-party applications. The first two categories include people, and over the time we …
Easy Ajax with PRADO
A PRADO PrimerPRADO is a full stack rapid application web framework. A lot of focus is placed on code re-usability not only in your code but in …
Why Do You Need a Portal?
Since its inception in early 1997, enterprise portal technology and products have been critical to both the technology and business landscape. Portals emerged with a singular purpose …
Web 2.0 Frankenstein
Remember cookies? At the dawn of the Internet age, cookies were supposed to add some state to the stateless world that IP stacks seemed to permit. Although …
Seamless AJAX with PRADO
It’s amazing to see how JavaScript is getting more and more important in web development. With the introduction of AJAX we have gotten more and more sophisticated …