This fourth article the Globalize your Web Applications series deals with something that’s at the forefront of your web apps: the character sets. More specifically, we’ll be taking a look at the Universal Character Set (UCS) and its role in creating multilingual web pages.
The rest is here: Globalize your Web Applications: The Universal Character Set

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Apache is one of the most successful open source projects of our times. A big advantage of this popularity is that over the years people have spent a great deal of time fine tuning the software for better performance. Read on to learn more.
The rest is here: Performance Tuning Tips for Apache

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Using language-specific locale features allows your applications to support many different locales, regardless of the settings on the computer, which runs the application. Today’s article takes a look at date formatting considerations in PHP.
Excerpted from:Globalize your Web Applications: Working with Dates in PHP

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Lightweight markup languages are markup languages designed with an honest attempt to make them simple enough for non-programmers to read and write in them. There are several lightweight markup languages available on the internet. Arpan Dhandhania shows you how to use the two most popular languages: Textile and Markdown.
More: Lightweight Markup Languages

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The Ajax Control Toolkit is a community project from Microsoft that contains a number of controls to design and implement Ajax-enabled controls seamlessly. In this article, Joydip Kanjilal shows you how to start working with the Ajax Control Toolkit and explores two sample extender controls.
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In the modern globalized economy, it behooves us to think of other nationalities when we develop our websites and applications. This article is the kickoff for a series that discusses the ramifications of globalization on our websites and applications. Today’s article will deal with locales and their implementation in the PHP language.
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Not using canonical URLs has a negative impact on your SEO, as Google notices that several URLs are returning the same content and penalizes you. Sukrit Dhandhania shows you how to fix this problem using either httpd.conf or .htaccess.
Read more: How to Setup Canonical Domain Names with Apache

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Our last article discussed the withdraw script that enables a customer to make a withdrawal from an account of their choice. This installment explores the mechanisms behind making a deposit into an account.
Read more here: Creating a Banking Application Deposit Script

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In this article, we’re going to explore how to access Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) and connect to the Web through HTML Applications (HTAs) using VBScript as we roll out an HTA version control strategy.
More here: Rolling Out Your Own HTML Application Version Control

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Today’s article will highlight some of the ramifications of mixing scripting languages in your web pages. These discussions will be applicable to cross-browser scripting and HTAs as well.
Source:Mixing Scripting Languages

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Is it time to stop blogging and start networking? This CMS has everything a developer needs to create a top of the line social networking site with all the features that users have come to expect from sites like MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Read more: Review: phpFox, a Social Networking CMS with all the Bells [...]

Rob Gravelle presents a solution for making Orangoo’s GreyBox library work with HTML Applications (HTAs)using AJAX and the DOM scripts collection. By making the changes in a local script, specialized behavior can be limited to a specific application.
More: Using GreyBox in your HTML Applications: The Unobtrusive JavaScript Solution

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Exception handling is a technique that enables you to handle runtime errors. This article discusses exception blocks, best practices and how to handle exceptions efficiently using the ASP.NET Ajax framework.
Source:Working with Exceptions using ASP.NET Ajax

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This article explores the new Object Orientated Programming that became available in PHP 5. Get some hands-on experience as we create an application demonstrating the concepts.
Read more here: Object Orientated Programming- The beginning

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All browsers have some kind of caching mechanism in place, but to be honest, they don’t always work. Until HTML 4, the only work around was that the user had to save each page individually. HTML 5, thankfully, provides a smarter solution.
View original here: HTML 5: Offline Application Caching

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