Web & Mobile Solutions
I tend to get a few questions from people on whether PHP is a scripting language or a proper high level language. The term High Level Language refers to the higher level of abstraction from machine language. Rather than dealing with registers, memory addresses and call stacks, high-level languages deal with variables, arrays and complex arithmetic or boolean expressions. In addition, they have...
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Let me introduce you to my new friend: Lighthouse. This is an issue tracking web application that simplifies the whole issue submission and tracking process. This means less hassle for you to report issues or suggestions to me and easier for me to allocate them to a milestone and sort them out!
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A piece of news that interests the Dungeons & Dragons table-top Role Playing Game (RPG) fans. Dark Sun returns to D&D and gets an update for the 4th Edition in 2010. For those of you that have never heard of this world, Dark Sun was a 2nd Edition Campaign Setting where the political setting is similar to ancient Middle East, North Africa or Mesopotamia. Water and metals are extremely...
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User Controls are commonly used in ASP.NET web sites. Their main idea is to bundle a set of controls (buttons, text fields, textareas, etc) and form a new and more complex control. That could be useful in the case that we want to use the same set of controls and functionality across a number of pages in a site. This tutorial will demonstrate how we can make use of User Controls in WinForm...
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How many times you have stumbled upon a theme or a plug-in that you want to test on your site? WordPress does not offer a preview feature so the only option is to make it live which should not be the prefered (and only) option while testing or in general experimenting with new features.
In this article, we will investigate how we can setup a copy of our WordPress powered site on a local machine will serve as a development and test environment.
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If you don’t have (or don’t want to use) a Hotmail or Live account and you want to use MSN Messenger follow the instructions below: Navigate to the Windows Live ID page. Under the Sign up today header and subsection“Use an e-mail address you already have” section, click the Get started now link (it should be the second one). Enter your personal details. Click next, type...
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A web developer based in Athens, Greece, Apostolos Dountsis, having lived and worked for 10 years in Brighton, UK, is now unleashing his expert iOS and PHP skills in the Greek and international market. In his limited spare time, he develops open-source plugins for CMS systems like WordPress and Drupal and iOS applications.