In this sixth part of a nine-part series on the Python language you will learn about the print statement control flow statements and more. It is excerpted from chapter four of the book em Python in a Nutshell Second Edition em written by Alex Martelli O Reilly ISBN 5961 469… Continue Reading

If you do any serious programming whether it s in PHP 5 or some other language you ve needed to know how to handle run time errors and other exceptional conditions. You can do this by making your program throw generic exceptions. Or you can unlock the potential of PHP… Continue Reading

This is the second part of my four-part series Active Client Pages Ajax Approach. In this part of the series we continue our discussion of the Ajax features we will need to use with ACP and then we look at the principles of the Ajax approach….
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In the last article we started to build our site and then continued to explore the login script. In this article we will continue to explore the script but will also discuss in detail the process of authentication and its security implications. We will eventually look at some of the… Continue Reading

In this fifth part of a nine-part series on the Python language you ll learn about sequences lists sets and more. This article is excerpted from chapter four of the book em Python in a Nutshell Second Edition em written by Alex Martelli O Reilly ISBN 5961 469 . Copyright… Continue Reading

Welcome to the conclusion of a nine-part series focused on showing you how to build applications with the Code Igniter framework. Designed to allow programmers to create applications rapidly by utilizing the Model-View-Controller pattern the Code Igniter framework lets you add many capabilities quickly and easily. This article will bring… Continue Reading

If a user were using a slow Internet connection he would have found that it takes time for him to have his web page displayed downloaded at his client computer. Nowadays only the first page of his web site will take a long time to be downloaded the rest of… Continue Reading

In this article we will be building our application using the concepts discussed in the previous articles. Any web site that is selective in the kind of users that it wants to grant access to will need some method of filtering. This filtering is usually done through a login system.… Continue Reading

iPhone 2.0 only: Free application Fring puts popular chat applications on your iPhone, including Skype—and the ability to make Skype voice over IP calls when your phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network. Fring puts all your chat buddies from AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, Twitter, and Skype on… Continue Reading