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John Cox
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Apples To Oranges – CSS Bar Graph
A CSS-based bar graph implementation demonstrating how to create data visualizations using only stylesheets.
Programmer Meet Designer - where web developers find web designers
This is a site for programmers, web developers, designers, entrepreneurs and writers to find each other and work together to create websites that look and function great.
Adam Howitt - How to Design a large AJAX Application
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Painless JavaScript Using Prototype [JavaScript & DHTML Tutorials]
Dan Webb introduces Prototype, a JavaScript library that simplifies DOM scripting and underpins Rails' JavaScript helpers, offering utilities like the $ function for element selection, getElementsByClassName for class-based queries, and the newer $$ function for CSS selector syntax. The article covers Prototype's core features including helper functions for common tasks, Ruby-inspired object-oriented approaches through Class.create and Object.extend, and form handling capabilities. Webb emphasizes that while Prototype's documentation was historically sparse, the library provides practical shortcuts that make JavaScript development more convenient, particularly for developers familiar with Ruby's syntax and conventions.
AJAX Tutorial with Prototype
This is a tutorial demonstrating a practical AJAX implementation using the Prototype JavaScript library, where a zip code input field triggers real-time server lookups to display the corresponding city and state. The example walks through the complete setup—including HTML form structure, client-side JavaScript that fires on each keystroke using Prototype's Ajax.Updater, and server-side ColdFusion code that queries a zip code database and returns formatted results or error messages. The tutorial illustrates core AJAX concepts like asynchronous requests, DOM manipulation, and error handling in a simple, accessible way suitable for beginners.
http://www.sanisoft.com/ziploc/
phpZipLocator is a PHP class that calculates distances between zip codes and identifies all zip codes within a specified radius by querying a database of zip code geographic data. Installation requires downloading the class files, setting up a MySQL database with the provided zip code table, and configuring database credentials in a configuration file. The tool outputs distance measurements in miles and can return lists of nearby zip codes, making it useful for location-based web applications.
activeCollab - open source project management and collaboration tool.
This is a marketing page for ActiveCollab, a project management and productivity platform designed for agencies, consultancies, and service businesses. The tool integrates task management, workload tracking, team communication, time tracking, invoicing, and reporting into a single workspace to help teams stay organized, meet deadlines, and manage profitability. The platform emphasizes ease of use, transparency, and scaling capabilities while maintaining quality standards, and serves over 50,000 teams daily.
Project collaboration, management, and task software: Basecamp
This is Basecamp's marketing homepage pitch for their project management software. They're positioning Basecamp as a deliberately simple alternative to bloated project management tools, emphasizing that after 20+ years and nearly a million users worldwide, their longevity proves the product actually works for real teams across different industries. The appeal centers on ease of use, reliable customer service (with unusually long-tenured support staff), and impressive scale metrics, with an invitation to try it free or attend a live demo class.
Google Code - Project Hosting
Google Code was a free project hosting service for open source software development projects.
Comparison of different SQL implementations
This page compares how different database management systems (PostgreSQL, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and Informix) implement various SQL features and operations, showing which products follow the SQL standard and where they diverge. It covers everything from basic SELECT and INSERT syntax to data types, functions, metadata queries, and command-line operations, serving as a practical guide for developers porting SQL code between different database platforms. The author acknowledges the page is no longer actively maintained but provides extensive side-by-side feature comparisons with code examples for each DBMS's approach to standard SQL functionality.
JSMX - The Universal Ajax API for ColdFusion, PHP, .NET, or your language of choice.
JSMX is a universal Ajax API framework that enables seamless communication between JavaScript and server-side languages like ColdFusion, PHP, and .NET.
Library of Free Data Models
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Folder tree with Drag and Drop capabilities
This page provides documentation for a JavaScript drag-and-drop folder tree widget, including download links for all necessary files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP backend components). It explains how to configure the tree using HTML list attributes, initialize it with JavaScript, and implement features like renaming, deleting, and persisting node changes via Ajax or form submission. The script is distributed under LGPL with commercial licensing options available.
jakilinux.org - english version » SSH tricks
A guide covering useful SSH techniques and tricks for command-line users.
Test Smarter, Not Harder by Scott Sehlhorst - developer.*, Developer Dot Star
Exhaustive testing of complex software with millions of input combinations is economically impractical, so this article presents more efficient testing strategies based on statistical sampling and combinatorial analysis. Random sampling requires prohibitively large test suites for high quality standards, while pairwise and N-wise testing (particularly N=3) can achieve 90% code coverage with dramatically fewer tests—reducing a 2.3 million-combination scenario to just 179 tests. The article further demonstrates how applying knowledge of the application architecture—such as mapping control dependencies, grouping related inputs, and eliminating equivalent values—can reduce test suite size even further, achieving strong quality assurance within realistic budgetary constraints.
web-related talks » PHP5 Benchmark
A technical benchmark analysis of PHP5 performance metrics and optimization.
5 "Next Generation" PHP Frameworks
An overview of five modern PHP frameworks representing the latest generation of web development tools.
PHP Bugs: #37276: problems witch $_POST array
A PHP 5.1.3 bug caused $_POST arrays with nested keys (like `masivasid[id_1]` and `masivasid[id_2]`) to be parsed incorrectly when forms were submitted with `multipart/form-data` encoding, resulting in malformed array structures where later keys would be nested under earlier ones instead of existing at the same level. The issue affected all Linux systems tested and did not occur with GET requests, breaking functionality in applications like phpMyAdmin, with users identifying the likely culprit as the `php_register_variable_ex` function in the PHP source code.
CSS Code Visual Grouping Techniques at SixThings
A guide to visual grouping techniques in CSS code for better organization and readability.