Many developers have a set of wrong ideas about Rails parameters. See how you can deal with them in real life.

Discover the practice of continuous integration and several of the most popular tools, including Apache's Continuum, Cruise Control (CC), and Hudson, which effectively implement this concept.

Learn to build a text DSL in MGrammar.

Are you finding it hard to obtain funding to finish building out your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology stack? You may have heard about the Open Source GlassFish Java 5 EE Application Server, but did you know that there is a GlassFish ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) Project that integrates the Open ESB Project? See what it can do for you.

Integrate Twitter into your Zend Framework-powered website with ease. Just use the Zend_Service_Twitter component!

See how you can tighten security gaps using JavaScript and practices such as the Same Origin Policy, Data Tainting, and Signed Scripts.

Follow these steps for smoother updates of minor releases and less painful migrations to major releases.

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) allows developers to achieve greater modularity in their applications by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns. Explore basic AOP concepts and their implementation using Spring.Net, a popular open source application framework by walking through several examples.

Learn how to create fully formatted Microsoft Excel workbooks at runtime. Just use Java with the help of the Apache POI projects' HSSF libraries.

Learn how to create a pure Java class for reading Microsoft Excel with the help of the Apache POI projects' HSSF libraries.

The Eclipse PMD plug-in finds code that isn't up to the standards you define, improving the code's consistency and preventing the avoidable production bugs.

Build powerful product-driven websites by using the Zend Framework to plug in to the vast Amazon.com database.

Increase your productivity when developing in Eclipse with plug-ins that reduce the number of applications open on your desktop and make those infrequent tasks easier with wizards.

Most mainstream programming languages are based on the paradigm called imperative programming, in which the programmer tells the computer the exact steps what to do. In contrast, there are multiple programming languages that are based on functional programming. Functional programming is making its way to the .NET world with the advent of the F# language. Discover what F# is and why it is useful.

Send email through your website by using a number of powerful PHP-oriented solutions!

Eliminate user hassle and superfluous code by integrating OpenID into your Zend Framework-powered website!

Need to create, update, or convert images programmatically? Look no further than GraphicsMagick for help for your C, C++, Perl, or .NET app.

Enterprise data is the lifeblood of a corporation, but it's useless if it's left to languish in data silos. Data warehousing and mining provide the tools to bring data out of the silos and put it to use.

Learn how to geocode addresses using the GeoKit plugin, as well as calculate distances between points and identify all points within a specified radius!

Web-based mapping solutions are in high demand these days. Learn how to take advantage of the Google Maps API and YM4R/GM plugin to add mapping capabilities to your Rails applications!

Learn to write easy to understand concurrent programs with Stackless Python, an alternative version of Python that avoids the C call stack and simplifies writing concurrent code.

If you must use IFrames to integrate legacy web applications into your portal, here is a manageable, extensible, and maintainable approach.