Today, JavaScript can be written, debugged, and even tested using frameworks’ built-in functionality or by specialized software. In today’s article, we’ll begin examining some of the latest ways of debugging your JavaScript code. Read the original post: Debugging JavaScript: Beyond Alerts

As JavaScript Frameworks and user JS libraries become increasingly commonplace, download times can become a real turn off to users. There are times where dynamically loading scripts and other resources can be of great benefit. In this overview of on-demand JavaScipt, we’ll go over the basics of how it’s done, as well as look at [...]

There are as many ways to implement form validation as there are opinions of the best way to do it. This article discusses client-side validation using jQuery’s validation plugin. More: Form Validation using jQuery

Part two of our series on User Personalization with PHP looks at user authentication. User authentication simply means verifying that a particular user has the right to access a part of our application. Read on to learn more… User Personalization with PHP: The Verification Code

Newcomers to JavaScript often misunderstand its object oriented style. This short tutorial explains how JavaScript implements object inheritance and how you can use it to your advantage. See more here: Prototypal Inheritance Explained

Comet is a Web application model that enables Web servers to send data to the client without having to explicitly request it. This article will examine one method of implementing Comet called Ajax Long Polling and demonstrate how it can be used to create event-driven Web apps. More: Comet Programming: Using Ajax to Simulate Server [...]

In this tutorial we will build an online bookmark system. This will be used to create a database for storing all our URL’s and their descriptions. By creating our own, we have full control over our application, allowing us to tweak it to suit our needs. Originally posted here: User Personalization with PHP: Beginning the [...]

A shift in demographics has pushed a post-dot-com generation to seek an online experience with an emphasis on entertainment. With the number of people growing up with gaming, it can be a familiar way to teach new concepts. By Sandy Carter. 0119 Read more: Marketing 2.0: Gaming, Widgets, Blogging, RSS, Podcasts and More

This week you’ll learn how to access a database from the Web using PHP. Inserting new items into the database is similar to getting items out of the database. You follow the same basic steps: make a connection, send a query, and check the results. By Luke Welling, Laura Thomson. 1204 Read the original: Administering [...]

Many Web sites want to control who has access to what. There are many situations where access control is appropriate, and they can easily become very complex. Here we look at the most highly regarded model

This article discusses how to use JavaScript to validate important types of form data, including names, addresses, URLs, email addresses, phone numbers, zip codes, expiration dates and credit card numbers (Visa, Master Card, Discover, and American Express, in both Canadian and US formats). By Joseph Myers. 1002 More here: How to Use JavaScript to Validate [...]

In CakePHP, controllers are the classes that handle browser requests and facilitate communication between models and views. This week you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of CakePHP controller. By Ahsanul Bari, Anupom Syam. 0929 Continued here: Controllers: Programming Application Logic

Today we look at issues surrounding content creation, and discuss some techniques and methods to help you produce the best content you can. For many Web users, blogging is all about text, and that’s what we’ll be focusing on here. By Paul Thewlis. 0922 Continued here: Business Blogging: Content Is King

This week you’ll learn how to have the connection between the browser and the Web server encrypted. This guide is designed for use with the typical Apache on Linux configuration. By Stephen Philbin. 0919 Excerpt from:Do It Yourself SSL Guide

This week we look at the most popular methods to get you going with AJAX in WordPress and use plug-ins and widgets to create dynamic self-updating content and interactive forms in your WordPress site. By Tessa Blakeley Silver. 0916 Read the original: WordPress: AJAX/Dynamic Content and Interactive Forms