Remy Sharp05/28/10
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Why Firebug sucks more than IE6

I prefer working with IE6 nowadays than working with Firebug. Firebug sucks. There I said it. IE6 is always bashed at conferences I go to, but actually the application that causes me most pain is Firebug. I said this on Twitter this morning, and then...

Mitch Pronschinske05/28/10
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Top 10 DZone Refcardz of 2009*

As part of our 100 Refcardz celebration week, we're looking back on the most popular Refcardz we've released here at DZone. I put an asterisk "*" in the title to indicate that this is not a list of total...

Jeroen Borgers05/27/10
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Web performance in seven steps

More and more Internet users buy in web shops these days. Research shows that the part of European Internet users that buys on-line has grown from 40% in 2004 to 84% in 2008. Additionally, the large web retailers in my country saw their revenue grow in 2009...

Mitch Pronschinske05/27/10
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A Storm of Web Developer IDEs

JetBrains knows how to build an intelligent, friendly IDEs (they are the makers of IntelliJ IDEA). Today, JetBrains has unleashed two brand new projects they've been working on: WebStorm and PhpStorm. Both of these new IDE's for web developers include...

Neal Ford05/27/10
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Mouseless Browsing

Once you write a book, you become really immersed in the subject matter. After it's off to the publisher, you can't turn off your interest in the subject. Consequently, after The Productive Programmer came out, I continue to find new ways to make myself...

Ali Loghmani05/26/10
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3 replies

How-Tos for implementation of Open Source Portal and ECM Projects

It is always a big challenge when you want to extend your current web presence and manageability of your content produced by your existing legacy applications. There are a variety of different implementations on how to achieve this goal. In this post I will...

Asif Shahzad Ch.05/26/10
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12 replies

The Psychology of Programmers

For last couple of days I was thinking there must are some fundamental differences in how programmers think, act, and work as against to other professionals or common peoples. So here I share some of the points which I have figured out and searched.

Eric Hagan05/26/10
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Video: ColdFusion & SharePoint Taste Great Together

SharePoint is becoming a ubiquitous corporate online team collaboration and document management tool. In this presentation, David Brown shows how ColdFusion...

Charlie Key05/26/10
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Creating a Roulette Wheel Using HTML5 Canvas

HTML5 is really hot all over the web right now so I figured I would drop some HTML5 knowledge on y'all. I have worked with Flash and Flex consistently for the last few years so I can easily drop and manipulate graphics in it, but I haven't done much with...

Giorgio Sironi05/26/10
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Yahoo! Query Language

The Yahoo! Query Language, or YQL, is an Api that builds an uniform approach for making requests to web services of any kind, like Google, Flickr, or Twitter.YQL derives his name from SQL, and it has a very similar syntax. The goal of the YQL platform is to...

James Sugrue05/26/10
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28 replies

Your Refcardz WishList: What Cards Would You Like To Appear in the Series?

As you know by now, we're celebrating the launch of our 100th Refcard at DZone this week. Today I have a simple question for you: are there any Refcardz that you would like to see in the series? If you've ever thought "there should be a Refcard for...

Giorgio Sironi05/26/10
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Practical PHP Patterns: Lazy Loading

Lazy initialization is a common procedure in programming, especially in an environment like PHP applications where during a specific HTTP request it's practically sure that there are resources which won't be used at all, and that, if eager loaded, would be...

Jay Clark05/25/10
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Fire up your webapp with PyroCMS

Lightweight MVC Frameworks like Codeigniter, CakePHP, and Symfony help speed up the process of building your web applications. However, many times you want to get up and running with your websites even faster than these core frameworks can afford. Often...

Eric Hagan05/25/10
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Advanced Debugging Tips and Tricks

Most developers define debugging as an 'after the fact' solution for finding bugs after they've already caused problems. Bilal Soylu's definition includes...

Janko Jovanovic05/25/10
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Why and how to create Microsoft Office Minibar with jQuery and CSS3

Although many will argue that Microsoft products are an example of a good design, Minibar was one of design refreshments that came out with the Office 2007. It is a variation of a toolbar that exposes context-related functionality. In case of MS Word,...