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Geolocation: Easier Than It Looks
Have you ever wanted to add location-aware content to your web applications? Would you believe me if I told you it was dead easy, and you could be up and running in about 10 minutes? The first thing you want to do is use someone else’s work. Geolocation is a solved problem; there’s no need […]
Building the Backside – Part 1
Editor’s Note: This is part three of a four-part series on building mobile dashboards with Flash and PHP. You can still read Part One and Part Two on php|architect’s Website. In case you did not know this, I love PHP. It is the Swiss Army Knife of development languages, and I can do dang near anything […]
Mobile Dashboards Made Easy – Part 2
It’s time for the second instalment on our four-part series on mobile dashboards; this time, we focus on the user interface of our application.
Mobile Dashboards Made Easy – Part 1
We’ve wanted to show you how we run our site for many years, but have always struggled with synthesizing a good example—until now. In this three-part article, Marco and Cal show how they built a cool, cross-platform mobile dashboard for visualizing sales.
Lots of Screens with a Little Code
A few months ago I had the opportunity to attend AdobeMAX. While I was there at Adobe’s invitation, I took it upon myself to chat with smart people from all over the community. One of the more interesting people I tracked down was Christian Cantrell.
Crystal Starting to Form
Martin Rusev is developing a new database query library for PHP 5. The project shows promise, but it has some distance to go before it competes with other available libraries.
Sandcastles & Security
After playing with Flex off and on for a couple of months, I decided I would try to break it. I’m not a security guy at heart, but I’ve listened closely and improved my own stuff, so I quickly came up with four ways that I might be able to cause problems with Flex. Here are my results with each. To be clear, it is not my goal to be a nefarious troublemaker and break everything. My goal is to find out where things could break.
PHP 5.3.3 and 5.2.14 are out
July 22 has seen the release of two new versions of PHP – the innovator 5.3.x and the previous 5.2.x. There are interesting news for both these new releases.
Ext4Yii, bridging PHP and JavaScript frameworks together
Ext4Yii is one of the numerous solution to bring a JavaScript framework into a PHP one with ease.
Never Use $_GET Again
How many times have we heard about security issues in PHP applications stemming from unescaped GET and POST parameters? Proper escaping of input is a perennial problem with web development in general, and for whatever reason PHP seems to have had more than its fair share of bad publicity on this front.
