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ShareBy some accounts there are at least 5 million PHP developers in the world, each with a different skill level. But how did we all become PHP developers? Almost every PHPer has an interesting background story, and it is worth your time to investigate the back-stories of other PHPers you meet.
So lets say [...]

ShareAs someone who considers himself a developer first and a designer second, I’ve not previously put a lot of thought into using graphical tools (outside of HTML and my existing dev environment) to prototype front-end layouts for customers.
However, there are some major advantages to mocking up with a stand-alone tool. Once I have a [...]

ShareWonder how many PHP developers there are in your country? Are you curious as to the most popular browser among PHP developers? Manuel Lemos has a new blog post up at PHPclasses.org entitled “How Large Is the PHP Market?”, in which he delves into these questions and more.
Manuel uses a Zend estimate of [...]

ShareHave you avoided adopting a templating engine for your web applications because you are afraid of the learning curve? You’re not alone. I was in the same boat about a year ago.
But, as applications evolve and grow more complex over their lifecycle, separating presentation HTML and “presentation logic” from application logic becomes essential [...]

ShareCow’s Reflection.js allows you to add reflections to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.
It works in all the major browsers – Internet Explorer 5.5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Safari, Google Chrome and Opera 9+. On older browsers, it’ll degrade and your visitors won’t notice a thing. Best of all, [...]

ShareIf you’re a web developer, chances are you’ve grown to hate Internet Explorer 6 due to its inconsistencies with respect to CSS, JavaScript, and standards in general.  One additional annoyance is IE6’s lack of support for PNG transparency.
At my institution, we still have a very large installed base for IE6 (over 70% of our machines), [...]

ShareFor those that haven’t already found this great set of application icons, I present to you the Fam Fam Fam “Silk” icon set. I’ve been using these for a couple of months and just love the modern look and the fact that over 700 icons means you’re certain to always find the icon you need [...]

ShareI was cruising the web tonight and ended up at reCAPTCHA.net, the image verification service run by Carnegie Mellon University.  They claim there are over 60 million reCAPTCHAs completed every day now, and they’ve launched a program now that essentially supplies the reCAPTCHA word images from various books that are currently not machine readable and [...]