What's so good about the Zend Framework? Every framework has ups and downs. Want to convince your boss to use ZF?

Don't miss out the PHP CLI Interactive mode. You can invoke PHP interactive shell from the terminal

I just completed a search for a new job. In these economic times, finding a job can be daunting, even in the software industry, which has fared better than most. (Today, it was announced that the official unemployment rate in the U.S. is 10.2%, the highest level in 25 years.) Despite these obstacles, this was the easiest and most rewarding job search of my career.

Ever since I’ve moved to my own server for my websites, I’ve wanted to reduce the number of HTTP requests per user as much as possible. Here is how I (and you) can use Python to shave 1 more request off that number.

There were days when UML tools were expensive and only few commercial ones were available. But, now the market is flooded with several commercial and opensource uml tools. While choice is good, but too much choice is also bad. It has become difficult to evaluate and select the best one. In this article I present my handpicked collection of best open source UML tools.

It’s fashionable, or perhaps inevitable, for tech communities to trash their competition. The Emacs folks like to mock vi users; Windows folk look down on us Mac users (and Linux users mock us both); and everyone likes to mock PHP despite PHP’s dominance in the web world. We geeks make arguing over minor technical points into a kind of art. This is all pretty understandable: it’s easy to define community in terms of what we’re not. A common enemy focuses and drives us. Competition can take a positive form: when it’s friendly and constructive both communities benefit.

It can be frustrating to write complex JavaScript programs when they don't work the same way on different browsers. Google, who makes extensive use of JavaScript in programs like Gmail and Google Docs, understands the difficulties in writing, debugging, and optimizing sizable JavaScript apps. To make JavaScript programming easier, Google has released its set of Closure Tools for JavaScript.

Ever imagined if the tiny JavaScript code could render amazing out of the box 3D? Then be ready to enjoy wonderful 3D effects in simple JavaScript code. These JavaScript 3D Libraries let you render smooth yet attractive 3D effects with great ease.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a wysiwyg (visual) HTML editor using IHTMLdocument2 class in mshtml.

Most people in the web development world are under the impression that phpMyAdmin is the only MySQL client out there for websites. Going a step further, some users are aware of alternative however assume that phpMyAdmin is the best.

In this tutorial, i am writing down all my knowledge of how to work with the wonders of the System.Drawing.Graphics class. Note: I am doing this in .NET 3.5, however i am positive it will also work in .NET 3.0. I am also positive it will work in .NET 2.0, but i am not sure if it will work in .NET 1.0.

In this tutorial I will be showing you how you would go about Sending Email Using Gmail in C#.

.Net 4 is looking more and more attractive. I absolutely loved and at the same time was jealous of the LINQ feature in .Net. Now with PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) it just become so attractive that it's almost illegal. At least that's how I see it compared to the language features in Java, which hasn't changed since 1.5.

One of the pillars of design for testability, which is listed also in the Google guide for code reviewers, is to have constructors that do not contain logic or method calls. I will explain the reasons behind this choice with an example, but let me say that to reduce dependencies it is natural for a class to avoid making assumptions on the external environment, performing things like creating new objects. Separating the business responsibility of a class from the one of wiring itself to other objects is necessary.

Certain elements in HTML lend themselves to many situations when marking up a website, one of the more useful of these elements is the HTML list. Using lists, a developer can markup horizontal navigation, dropdown navigation, a list of links, and even scrolling content panels (with the help of Javascript). These features can help developers build new sites and applications as well as integrate new content into existing applications.

At this year's GSMA Mobile World Congress, 3 ½ hours were devoted to the topic of "Mobilizing Open Source", which was no doubt spurred in part by the increasing attention Google's open-source mobile operating system, Android, has drawn. While open-source products have, for the most part, been pushed into a corner and untouched in the enterprise due to lack of support, regular updates, and compatibility, the mobile market is a unique bird.

People make plans. But if a plan is to pan out the correct way, you need to be able to execute it right. But how do you implement a plan to achieve everything you had set out to do?

What can't python do?

Mark Thomas, a member of the Apache Tomcat Project Management Committee, said that the alpha release of Tomcat 7 is expected in December 2009 or January 2010. DZone spoke with Thomas for an exclusive interview about the upcoming version of Tomcat.

With Maven 3.x we have made our best attempt to listen users, find out what they need and want, and make reasonable preparations and plans to fix the problems, implement useful features, and create the integration points for working properly with third party systems like Nexus and Hudson. While there have been many new feature requests — and we have many new features done or in the works — the number one concern is backward compatibility. Maven 3.x makes an ardent attempt to be 100% backward compatible with Maven 2.x. All your Maven 2.x builds should work out of the box using 3.x without change to your projects. We simply can’t cause pain to the existing user base. We are very cognizant that even small changes can have a huge impact and so we have tried achieve complete Maven 2.x fidelity with Maven 3.x.

At QCon 2008 Steve Vinoski told me he uses at least 4 languages pretty much every day. At the time I thought 4 seemed like a lot of languages to use. Are we ready for a world where programmers need to know so many languages?

The Web Designer Wheel is simple process model that describes in five steps how to manage a small web project and relations with client. This approach allows you to work better, fix and respect milestones and establish profitable and long-term relations with your clients.

Okay, If you are a programmer, a web developer or a Geek you will love going through all these cartoons. The List is huge, don’t Read in all go, you will delay your ETAs.

Hadoop is getting more popular these days. Lets look at what it is good at and what not.

A freelancer is in the position of the rich snob, as we provide a service for money and we do not need to give employees a cut.