When it comes to trying out a snippet of PHP, the process can often be time consuming and tedious. Loading up your editor, saving a new file in your http docs folder, firing up a webserver, running some tests and then clearing the files off – it’s generally more trouble than its worth. Thankfully, PHP [...]
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There may be growing interest in moving computer applications from the desktop to the Web. But desktop applications are still a huge market, whose demise has been prematurely reported by the media in the past, and will most likely be reported in the future. In addition, for many domain areas, a Web browser — even for an AJAX-powered site — will be insufficient for many application needs.
Every major website seems to have a tag cloud. Users love tag clouds; they help navigate masses of content quickly and easily. When used appropriately, they help us sort filter through information stores, reduce the signal-to-noise ratio. Providing a tag cloud is also relatively painless for the server – after all, it’s just some HTML. [...]

In my ten part series “Designing and Coding a WordPress Theme From Scratch” we made our own WordPress theme starting with a design in Photoshop. But now that you’ve made a theme, what about releasing it to the public? So far I’ve released two themes: Tech Blogger and Unstandard Remix). A third, my first completely [...]
Love them or hate them, regular expressions are here to stay. When it comes to quickly dealing with large blocks of data, batch processing operations or screen scraping, regular expressions are often the most effective solution. There’s just one problem, though – learning them can be as hard as learning a new language altogether. Here’s [...]


