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Zend Framework
General
- Zend Framework components as separate zips from the main distro? Sure!
- Zend Framework - good for beginners or not?
- Another idea for using models with forms
- Improving Ajax performance in Zend Framework applications
- Zend_Controller actions that accept parameters?
- Handling errors in Zend Framework
- Optimizing Zend Framework and Doctrine applications
- Reusable "generic" actions in Zend Framework
- How to CSRF protect all your forms
- CSRF protection revisited
- Making a PDF generator class using Zend_Pdf
- Making working with DB records easier with a controller helper
- Ideas for testing Zend Framework apps
- Good habits I learnt from Django
- Excellent Zend Framework request-response process flowchart
- Localize your site in 3 easy steps
- Routing and complex URLs in Zend Framework
Zend_Form
Zend_Acl
Zend_View and Zend_Layout
PHP
Tips and tricks
- Sending files better: Apache mod_xsendfile and PHP
- Closures coming in PHP 5.3 and that.s a Good Thing
- Practical uses for reflection
- Three PHP mistakes that will cause you debugging nightmares
- Even more PHP mistakes!
- Generic collections in PHP
- More on extensible authentication/access control
- Implementing swappable authentication methods
- Setting up Windows as a PHP development server
- Setting up command-line PHP on Windows
- Automating creation and caching of image thumbnails
- Dependency Injection, or how to make simple concepts sound difficult
- Tracking the user.s browsing history with PHP
Frameworks/libraries
Patterns
Domain models
JavaScript
General
- JavaScript margin/block commenting system
- Common widget design patterns
- Generating Sudoku puzzles using JavaScript
- How to get your saved passwords from almost any browser
- How to make back, forward and reload work in Ajax-based apps
- JavaScript Canvas charting/timeline example
- Simple Photoshop-style layers using JavaScript
- Resource URLs and JavaScript
- JavaScript and MVC
- I like pie menus
Libraries/frameworks
Other
General
- Dealing with configuration files in Subversion
- Thoughts on unit testing and application design
- Programming language guessing game (source available)
- Never trust the user-agent header
- Theory vs. Practice in coding
- Is web application development less challenging than desktop application development?
- User experience comparison: Online stores vs. Real stores
- The art of finding information
Programming
- Functional programming and Haskell
- Base classes in OOP programming languages
- Handling different page types in a CMS
- Sharing authentication over multiple sites / Single sign-on
- On template tag soup
- Google Spreadsheets, ASP.NET and Excel
- Put Excel on the net with ASP.NET
- Scripting in Windows
- Are DB layers like Zend_Db making people forget SQL?
- The mythical HTTP protocol
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