Newest Languages & Tools Articles Performance Improvement: Understanding By Robert Bogue - Published 06/29/2009 The results you get out of any performance prediction exercise are bound to be wrong. The goal is to make them as least wrong as possible. Rob Bogue will help you understand how to avoid getting them too wrong.
Hardwares Dirty Little Secret, or Why Software Can be Mass Produced By Paul Kimmel - Published 06/16/2009 OP-ED: Unlike the Illuminati, the IEEE exists, and they have a secret. This secret helps them turn out shiny MP3 players, phones, and computers with processing power than we programmers can figure out how to use. This is how they do it. When will developers learn the same truths?
On the Road with the Google Maps API By W. Jason Gilmore - Published 06/15/2009 Create sophisticated route finding features using the Google Maps API's powerful GDirections class!
Developing SOAP and RPC Web Services with PHP 5 By Vlad Kofman - Published 05/14/2009 Explore various toolkits that are available and examine the best ways to create web services in your PHP applications.
Iteration or Recursion? By Liviu Tudor - Published 04/23/2009 Did you ever get stuck having to choose between a recursive or iterative implementation? Get the answers to whether one is better than the other or whether it really matter?
Charting Your Course Using the Google Maps API By W. Jason Gilmore - Published 04/13/2009 Create compelling location-based web sites by providing users with the ability to calculate distances between points on a Google Map!
Highlighted Languages & Tools Tutorials Learning PHP: The What's and the Why's By Elizabeth Fulghum -
Tired of being limited by client-side Web development? Liz Fulghum begins a series of articles to teach you PHP. In this first article in the series, learn what PHP is and why you'd want to use it.
An Oldie but Goodie: The Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability By Thomas Gutschmidt -
A reader offers our security columnist a tip on an exploitable hole that seems to be well documented and understood but has been met with overwhelming complacency, even among the elite sites on the Internet.
Day 1: Learning the Basics of PL/SQL By Jonathan Gennick -
PL/SQL is a procedural language that Oracle developed as an extension to standard SQL to provide a way to execute procedural logic on the database. Here's how to get started using it.
JSP: Creating Dynamic Titles By Jose Annunziato -
Add flair to your Web site. Learn how to create dynamic titles using JSP.
JSP: Creating Dynamic Titles By Stephanie Kaminaris -
Add flair to your Web site. Learn how to create dynamic titles using JSP.
Password protection through JavaScript By Joe Burns -
This is the first in a series of script tips meant to discuss and describe the concept of creating password protection through JavaScript.