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June 2013
Whether you’re a total newbie or a seasoned pro, there’s something for everybody in this month’s issue of Web & PHP. In the first of a new series on ‘HTML5 Now’, Frédéric Harper explains why the web design world is going crazy over responsive design. Plus: an introduction to popular NoSQL database MongoDB, a tour inside PHP’s guts and what it takes to produce a chart-topping WordPress plugin.
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By now most you will probably have heard of the term NoSQL. It's a vague term that covers a lot of different types of database engines. The main classes of NoSQL databases are key/value stores,...
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The problem How often have you visited a website on your smartphone, only to get a really bad experience? You have to scroll up, down, right, left, zoom in, zoom out, struggle to click on the links...
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PHP is a complex machine written using the C language (C99). Nowadays, the basic PHP distribution (including default extensions) consists of about 700,000 lines of C and 30,000 lines of PHP for...
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Every week I am where IT problems occur: sharing my experience with development teams around the world and helping them make better use of the PHP platform. When you spend so much time on the...
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For the past several entries in my column I have covered the fundamentals of practical data modeling techniques. Each of the basic principles of Entity Relationship Modeling has been covered so far,...
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"It was sort of a natural evolution" Duane Storey and Dale Mugford run BraveNewCode, the development studio behind mobile site plugin WPtouch. The free version has been downloaded over four million...
