RockYou Gets Top Facebook Application. Slide Going Down?

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

RockYou has pushed ahead with a top Facebook App yet again with a 112% increase in the last three months, coming out on top, over Slide and all the others. Thanks to its chart-topping Super Wall application, RockYou has maintained its reign over Facebook applications since their inception. ...

Facebook Application “Crushes” Acquired by Buddy Media

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Buddy Media, the company behind the nicely-funded AceBucks Facebook application, has acquired the Crushes application to add to its ever-growing repertoire. The amount for the acquisition was not disclosed, but Crushes reportedly has about 30,000 daily active users, which is about 3% of its total user base. The ...

Developing a Captcha Application with an Image Generator Class with PHP 5

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

PHP is a powerful server-side scripting language that is recognized for its flexibility for developing a huge variety of web applications with relative ease. Speaking more specifically its robust set of graphic processing functions which has been packaged into the popular GD extension makes it perfectly suitable ...

Application Framework Components: Login/Logout

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

The first of the Framework components that we are going to be looking at is central authorization. This component contains two classes the login and logout classes. Not only do these classes log a user in and out they also record the times and dates that a user ...

The Design of an Intranet Application Framework

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

This article is the second part of a series on intranet application frameworks. Now that we know what the application framework is all about and how it is going to work in an intranet environment we are going to look at the overall structure and design of the intranet ...

An Introduction to Intranet Application Frameworks

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

You can use software in a number of ways to improve the efficiency of employees in a company. If there is an intranet set up you may want to create applications that take advantage of it to help your workers keep track of various projects. To make this work ...

Creating a Blog Application with Interpreter Classes with PHP 5

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Working with interpreter classes in PHP 5 can be a useful experience for any PHP developer. Welcome to the final part of the series that began with Building Interpreter Classes with PHP 5. Composed of three educational tutorials this series teaches you how to implement the interpreter ...

Configuring J2EE Application XML Files

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

In this fourth part of a series covering the management of OC4J and configuring J2EE applications with Oracle 1 g Application Server we take a closer look at at J2EE application deployment files and more. This article is excerpted from chapter eight of the em Oracle 1 g ...

Creating an RSS Reader Application

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

In the previous two articles we discussed how to read and build an RSS document with PHP. In this article we will create an application that uses the concepts discussed in the other two articles. So let s go straight to the coding.... Refurbished and Used Networking Equipment Network Liquidators sells ...

Coding Folders for a PHP Email Application

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

In this article the fourth and final one of our series covering the creation of a PHP email application we are going to look at the code for some of the remaining pages of the mail application. Chief among these is the NewMsg.php page which is where ...

Building the Index Page for a PHP Email Application

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

In this third part of a four-part article series on building a PHP email application we will look at the index page. This page is the heart of the application. We will also look at how to handle attachments in a message and how to integrate them into this ...

A Login System for a PHP Email Application

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

We know from the previous article that the user ID is very important in that it is used to retrieve various information from the database at various stages of the application. The login form sets this userID when you log in. It is the login system that will be ...

Expanding the Application Range of Visitor Objects in PHP 5

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Has your career as PHP developer led you to learn more about the most popular design patterns If it has then this series may help you get a better grounding in them. Welcome to the second installment of the series Introducing Visitor Objects in PHP 5. ...