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mod_rewrite is used for rewriting a URL at the server levelThis article shows you how to redirect all your URLs at a single "mother" page, for reprocessing, and how to stop people from hotlinking to your images.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/mod_rewrite%2C_a_beginner_s_guide_%28with_examples%29
Well, it took me 2 minutes but this is still need-to-know. There will be much copy/pasting after reading this article...
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Learn_AJAX_in_30_seconds_%28fixed_link%29
From High School to Chief Executive.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer_2
SharpDevelop 2.0, Beta 1 is available. It is an open-source alternative to Visual Studio 2005, with the added benefit that it can create executables targeting the 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 .NET Framework, as well as Mono 1.1. C# and Visual Basic.NET are both supported.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Open-Source_Visual_Studio_2005_alternative
XPath has a bunch of handy functions that you can use for writing PMD rules. For example, the AbstractNaming rule finds abstract classes that aren't named something like AbstractFoo using the starts-with function: //ClassOrInterfaceDeclaration [@Abstract='true' and @Interface='false'] [not (starts-with(@Image,'Abstract'))] But...
Link: http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2005/12/using_regular_e.html
Developers, security experts and project managers will be in demand. Its about time.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/What_Tech_Skills_Are_Hot_For_2006_
This article will take you through the beginning stages of picking up CSS. Covering; where to put your style sheet, creating a class, common CSS attributes, applying CSS to a HTML attribute, redefining a tag, shorthand CSS, pseudo elements and media-dependent style sheets.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Complete_introduction_to_CSS
This website shows amazing programming ability. These people have squeezed amazing 3D graphics into tiny filesizes by using assembler. There's even software on the website to try making a tiny demo yourself.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/3D_graphics_in_64KB
Many, if not most, free and open source software projects are developed primarily on Linux-based systems using the GNU C Library (glibc). Projects that use glibc are likely to depend on functions that are not available on systems that use different C libraries, such as the different BSD flavors. When packages are built on systems that don't use glibc they often fail, because the other C libraries are missing functions found in glibc. The GNU Portability Library can help developers with cross-platform programming needs.
Link: http://programming.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/16/2052201&from=rss
"It seems Microsoft was in such a hurry to get this stuff out that they forgot to set the media protection. This leaves hackers with the posibility to hack around with this disc that load from a normal DVDR5 backup! ... all datafiles on this disc isn't signed in any way, and will allow for extensive modification for producing exploits ..."
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Xbox_360_Hackable_Disk_Ripped
If you have a hand in storing SSN's on any level during developing, read this. Personally, I've seen this happen too many times.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Why_SSN_should_NOT_be_stored_as_an_integer_in_a_database
"You can power an application both online and offline using Google as your backend and focus on building new experiences on top of the data. Advanced functionality is available with a numeric Google ID and some variable tweaks."
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Build_your_own_feed_reader_on_top_of_Google_s_Feed_API
Check these cool printable progamming cheat sheets.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Programming_Cheat_Sheets
"...the failure of Java technology could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage..."
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Using_Java_Could_Lead_to_Death
This tutorial shows you how to create a little man holding a sign that displays various messages. (You know, like those you see on a lot of forum signatures.)
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Create_dynamic_images_using_PHP
Gus Mueller's 7.5 tips for making it as an independent developer, in 1068 Days.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Become_an_Independent_Programmer_in_1068_Days
Jeff Rafter recently informed me of the availability of a .NET C# Wrapper for Berkely DB a friend of his developed, so I'm spreading the word as far and wide as possible.
Link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8855?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169&ATT=.NET+C#+Wrapper+for+Berkely+DB+Now+Available
As Kurt Cagle posted last week, the first real eXplorations podcast is now available for download. This is a simple follow-up based on the fact that looking at the logfiles it seems a few people may have added this feed to their feedreader's for notification of each new podcast. We've shortened things up, this time bringing the total length to just over twenty(20) minutes, sixteen(16) of which is the Open Document/Open XML debate with just over four(4) minutes of music and fun.
Link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8854?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169&ATT=eXplorations+Episode+#1:+OASIS+Open+Document+Format+Debate
This site provides a listing of compilers, IDEs, editors, decompilers, debugging tools, books & tutorials for popular programming languages (C, C++, JAVA, Pascal, Basic, ...). Also contains information for Setup tools, EXE compressors anti-cracking protectors and other interesting stuff. A huge site, and seems to be updated quite often.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Programmers_Tools
this has to be the most simplified tutorials ive ever seen when it comes to learning a new language!
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Learn_c_The_Easy_Way
Must read if you are a new or pro programmer.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_Programmers
I've been using and following POG for a while now, and I must say, version 1.6 is very exciting, even though it's still beta. Give it a try, and if you like it, digg it!
Link: http://digg.com/programming/POG_-_A_PHP_Code_Generator
Here are 3 useful tutorial on how to parse XML using PHP.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/3_Useful_PHP_XML_tutorials
Since Google uses Python extensively in its own projects, perhaps it was only a matter of time...
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Google_Hires_Inventor_of_Python
No more database-dependent SQL queries, no more external library integration. At last, PHP developers will not dream of Lucene anymore. They can develop their own search engine, with results ordered by relevancy and smart indexing. Take a look at this fifteen-minutes tutorial from the symfony project.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/HOW-TO%3A_build_a_search_engine_in_PHP
It comes as no surprise that open source software developers are fixing bugs faster and faster, but the majority of Linux developers' willingness to use proprietary products -- a la the Bitkeeper debacle -- may be more likely to raise eyebrows. Both findings -- that open source developers find and repair severe bugs in less than four hours on average and that 64 percent of OSS developers would purchase a tool for Linux if it worked well even if it was not open source -- come from the Evans Data Fall 2005 developer survey.
Link: http://programming.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/12/2138242&from=rss
A well-written Perl program should, in theory, beat a shell script, right? In theory. In practice, sometimes the details of your Perl installation have more to do with why your program is slow than you might believe. Jean-Louis Leroy recently tracked down a bottleneck and wrote up his experiences with making Perl programs start faster.
Link: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/12/21/a_timely_start.html?CMP=OTC-BD0016219291&ATT=A+Timely+Start
Jason Levitt returns with a piece explaining how to use AJAX and JSON to interact with web services from JavaScript in a seamless, cross-domain, cross-browser fashion.
Link: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/12/21/json-dynamic-script-tag.html?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169&ATT=JSON+and+the+Dynamic+Script+Tag:+Easy+XML-less+Web+Services+for+JavaScript
This is a great place to quickly post most any type of code to send to your friend. This is great when a friend is having problems and they don't want to save it to a .txt and email it to you.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Post_Your_Code
Imagine using a simple HTML file to send a request to a server-side script, receive a custom XML file based on that request, and then display it to the user without ever refreshing the browser! Kris Hadlock explains how to use a combination of PHP and AJAX to create real-time data transfers in any application without a browser refresh.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Make_an_RSS_Aggregator_with_PHP_and_AJAX
Many of the PHP features can lead a programmer inadvertently to allow security holes to creep into a Web application. The popular security mailing lists teem with notes of flaws identified in PHP applications, but PHP can be as secure as any other language once you understand the basic types of flaws PHP applications tend to exhibit.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Top_7_PHP_Security_Blunders
Showing everything from start to finish, these video tutorials will show you how to create a text based RPG using C++.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Video_Tutorials%3A_Code_your_own_C_RPG_
A compilation of *Hello World* programs designed by various categories of *developers*.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/_Hello_World_Programs
To those of you waiting for the promised updated sample code, my apologies.
Link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8810?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169&ATT=.NET+and+XML+Tutorial+Update
The Unobtrusive Degradable Ajax Style Sheet Switcher combines the power of Server Side processing and DOM scripting to swap style sheets on the fly with the power of Ajax.
If JavaScript is disabled - UDASSS degrades gracefully to improve your website accessibility.
Very cool library indeed!
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Unobtrusive_Degradable_Ajax_Style_Sheet_Switcher
Fabio Insaccanebbia has come up with another fine rule for PMD - AvoidArrayLoops finds for/while loop array copies that can be replaced with a call to System.arraycopy. For example, this: public class Foo { public void bar(int[] a, int[] b)...
Link: http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2005/12/finding_opportu.html
Here's another neat realtime chat client using AJAX and ASP.Net. Minimalistic, fast, and easy to use :)
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Chat-O-Licious_-_AJAX_ASP.Net_realtime_chat_client
This detailed article covers the basics for a beginner to learn JavaScript. Also, simple code samples along the way as you learn.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Learning_JavaScript_Basics
A nice collection of various PHP tutorials, covering the basics, and some advanced stuff
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Lots_of_PHP_tutorials%2C_beginner_to_advanced
It's been about a week since we announced Subversion availability on RubyForge - and a clear pattern has developed. Out of the fifteen projects that have been submitted since then, twelve of them have chosen Subversion over CVS! Overall, only...
Link: http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2005/12/subversion_wall.html
Why computer's mess up ordering files when you want to sort them by numerical order, and how we could fix it.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/1%2C_2%2C_3%2C_4%2C_5_not_1%2C10%2C11%2C12%2C2%2C3%2C4%2C5
A palindrome is a word, phrase, verse or sentence that reads the same backward or forward...A computer program was created that resulted in a 17,259 word palindrome, the longest one to date.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/The_World_s_Longest_Palindromes
You will find downloads, episode guides, and forums all dedicated to these two awesome British television programs.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/The_ultimate_source_for_Top_Gear_and_Fifth_Gear_episodes
An Israeli mathematician, Hillel Tal-Ezer, of the Academic College of Tel Aviv in Yaffo has written a paper on the faults of google's mathematical algorithms for page ranking. Sorry about the way I did this, but Digg does not allow www2 links.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Israeli_Mathematician_Finds_Faults_in_Google_s_Math
Perl isn't the last, best programming language you'll ever use for every task. (Perl itself is a C program, you know.) Sometimes other languages do things better. Take logic programming--Prolog handles relationships and rules amazingly well, if you take the time to learn it. Robert Pratte shows how to take advantage of this from Perl.
Link: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/12/15/perl_prolog.html?CMP=OTC-BD0016219291&ATT=Logic+Programming+with+Perl+and+Prolog
Recently a site called Meneame (which emulated digg.com) opened it's source code up. The problem for Anglophones is that the code is written in Spanish and installation documentation is non-existant. Here's how you get it running.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/How_to_install_open_Source_Digg_code_%28Meneame%29_
Corporations spend billions building effective security protocols, but complacency and a desire for efficiency can soon lead to deviations from security protocols that workers gradually become accustomed to. The result is that small but potentially crippling holes develop in even the most effective systems, creating openings for attackers, including, potentially, insiders. Countering the insider threat requires a comprehensive, multi-tiered approach that includes physical controls, software access controls, and software protection/obfuscation.
Link: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/1940258&from=rss
An ongoing collection of various CSS tips, experiments and techniques.
Link: http://digg.com/programming/Some_Great_CSS_Tips_from_SimpleBits
Kurt Cagle and I have been trying for some time now to create an "State of the XML Industry" type podcast. After overcoming what amounted to a ridiculous number of obstacles, we've finally accomplished our task. Here is a recap of the first "official" post regarding the availability of the first show.
Link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8765?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169&ATT=Kurt+Cagle+and+M.+David+Peterson+-+Our+First+State+of+the+XML+Industry+Podcast+Is+Now+Available
The Perl community has released a fix to the sprintf function that was recently discovered to have a buffer overflow in very specific cases. All Perl users should consider updating immediately.
Link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8763?CMP=OTC-BD0016219291&ATT=Patches+fix+Perl+sprintf+buffer+overflow
Got any code like this? if (x != null x instanceof Foo) { // do something} Certainly the JDK does - at least, in JDK 1.4.2, PlainSocketImpl.java has a bunch of these. But since instanceof expressions return false if the...
Link: http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2005/12/save_thirteen_b.html
Mark Woodman shows us how to enhance the usability of RSS and Atom syndication channels with an idea he calls Immediate Action Feeds.
Link: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/12/14/putting-rss-to-work-immediate-action-feeds.html?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169&ATT=Putting+RSS+to+Work:+Immediate+Action+Feeds