Ever wondered how a CMS works? This article will demonstrate how a very basic CMS can be developed and will assist you in understanding how relatively simple it can be to set up a CMS from scratch.–by Giulio Bai

Interested in agile development but worried that your team is too small to make the most of it? This article will introduce you to a new development method that is based on Scrum, but is specifically tailored to even the tiniest of teams.–by Carl Anderson

Thought Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) was just for Java geeks? Think again. AOP is an amazing tool to reduce code and simplify complex applications, and it can drastically reduce development time and improve application stability and robustness. This article discusses AOP theory and concepts and describes my implementation of an AOP engine in pure PHP.–by Will Barden

If you are looking for a version control system that you can rely on, check out git. It is stable, reliable, inexpensive, and fast, and that’s just the beginning.–by Sebastian Marek

Championing PHP when it is only a small part of the overall organization.–byJames Baugh

In this first column, we will lay down the basics to help you understand how to communicate between JavaScript and PHP. With this foundation, we will be able to move into more advanced topics in upcoming columns.–by Christian Tiberg

An important part of building a capable Drupal site is creating displays that list your site content. The Views module makes this process fairly easy and very efficient (administratively speaking). In this column, I’ll show you what the Views module is and how to use it.–by Adrian Webb

We’ve thought about vulnerabilities in our server-side code and our client-side scripts, but what about third-party apps that we use? Learn how CSS may be enabling them to hijack our traffic.–by Arne Blankerts

Get Marco’s take on the release of PHP 5.3.–by Marco Tabini