The Zend_Auth component, part of the Zend Framework, provides a mechanism for authenticating users in your web apps. Jason Gilmore will show you how use this robust component to give users the ability to create their own accounts.

Learn how to use Windows Azure to setup and deploy your first application hosted in the "cloud."

Discover the step-by-step instructions needed to connect to a DB2 database from Cognos.

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.

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

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.

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.

Source Configuration Management (SCM) is an essential part in the Application Development lifecycle. Learn about a next-generation source management tool—Synergy CM.

Discover a rich media ecosystem wherein connected participants can form communities of individuals that interact with each other for a variety of purposes.

Python's Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) provides a standard interface for Python web applications to communicate with web servers. Find out how WSGI works by building a photo gallery application that can run in any WSGI enabled web server, including FastCGI, scgi, AJP, and Apache.

Dumping data to Excel through a web interface saves everyone a lot of time. Find out how to do this quickly with Python and the Django web framework.

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Take a look at SQLite, a fully featured relational database which, at just 250KB, is by itself able to easily fit on a floppy disk yet capable of managing terabyte-sized databases. You also will see how it works with PHP.

Would you like to broaden your site's exposure beyond an English speaking audience? See how the Zend framework can help you easily complete that task.

Windows PowerShell not only offers a powerful shell and scripting language, but also an easily extensible interface. Here, you will learn that it is relatively simple to extend the shell and language by creating custom cmdlets.

Windows PowerShell replaces the outdated batch files and Windows Scripting Host with a brand new object-oriented shell and scripting language. Learn how to retrieve directory and filenames from a specific drive.

Take a look at the REXML library and see how you can use it to process XML within your Ruby or Rails application. REXML makes adding XML support to your application a breeze, with a quick learning curve.

Here is the place to find all of our articles on Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and JRuby.

Discover how to use the RJS Template feature of Rails to add Ajax functionality to your Rails application. Ajax and Rails together are a powerful combination, and can not only enhance the user experience of your Rails application, but also increase performance because fewer page reloads are necessary to perform tasks.

Work step-by-step to install Rails into your JRuby installation and get a simple Rails application up and running.

Take a brief tour of Ruby on Rails and discover how to get your first simple Ruby on Rails web application up and running.

Connect your web application to a MySQL database using Ruby on Rails. Than add CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) support to that web application.

Find out why so many people are talking about Ruby on Rails and how you can get up and running quickly.

Discover what happens when you join Ruby, the red-hot dynamic programming language with Java, the leading object-oriented software development language