Working with Attributes and CDATA Sections with the DOM XML Extension
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Working with Colors in OpenGL for Game Programming with SDL
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007Colors magically bring a scene to life. No matter how interesting the plot is how engrossing the special effects are if the color combinations are not accurate or the colors are tepid the liveliness of the game suffers. In short it is the combination of and ...
Working With PL/SQL CodeOpen Web Awards: Nominations for Places and Events
Thursday, November 29th, 2007One problem the Internet has done a wonderful job of solving is organizing events. Sending invites, keeping track of who’s going, and making sure people bring stuff has been made easier by many orders of magnitude thanks to a host of services. Evite was the early winner in ...
Working With PL/SQL Code
Thursday, November 29th, 2007In this sixth part of a nine-part series on managing PL SQL code you will learn how to synchronize code with packaged constants how to work with post-processed code and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 2 of the book em Oracle PL SQL ...
Working with Images and Text Flows in PDF Files with PHP 5
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007When it comes to developing database-driven web applications that deliver their contents to end users in a great variety of formats PHP can be a killer scripting language. This becomes even more evident when these contents must be displayed through one or more PDF files which have to ...
Perl: Working with Files
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007In our last series of tutorials we worked with Conditionals and Loops to create some basic Perl programs. This time around we are going to be working with files. Text files CGI files PL files boiled files fried files Files Benedict steamed Files. Okay ...
Beginning SQL the SEQUEL: Working with Advanced SQL Statements
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007So you made it through the first tutorial and now you are back for more. Well buckle up for the ride because this episode teaches you the glories of advanced SQL statements. By the end of this article you ll be able to sort data join data ...
Working with the Tidy Library in PHP 5
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007As a PHP developer you ve probably developed database-driven applications that deliver their contents in X HTML format to the end user. If so you know that when you work directly with hard-coded X HTML files you risk forgetting to close tags and DTD headers ...
Working with Prepared Queries with PDO Objects in PHP 5
Monday, June 11th, 2007If you re a PHP developer who builds web applications that interact with different database systems such as MySQL Oracle MS SQL and so forth then this group of articles might be what you re looking for. Welcome to the final part of the series ...
Working with PHP and MySQL
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Last week you began learning how to use PHP to display and modify data from a MySQL database. This week you ll learn how to select the database fetch and display data and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 9 of em Learning PHP ...
Working with CSS Styles and the Stage Pattern in PHP 5
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007The stage pattern lets you build classes that can modify their behaviors according to the variations of a given programming context. If you want to learn more about it then you should start reading this article now Welcome to the final installment of the series that began with ...
Working with Themes and Templates
Thursday, March 29th, 2007Most experienced programmers understand the advantages of separating the look and feel of an application from the application s logic. Oracle uses HTML DB to accomplish this. This article introduces you to the themes and templates that HTML DB provides. It is excerpted from chapter 6 of the em ...
Working with Template Classes in PHP 5
Monday, March 19th, 2007A template class is a base class with some special abilities. First it concretely implements one or more algorithms second it can determine which subclasses should use these algorithms. This article is the first part of a two-part series that introduces you to the basic concepts of ...
Working with Strings and the Composite Pattern in PHP 5
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Are you a PHP developer who wants to improve your skills in pattern-based programming in PHP If the answer to this question is a emphatic yes then you should begin reading this article now Welcome to the final part of the series Implementing the composite pattern ...
Working with REF CURSOR in PL/SQL
Monday, February 12th, 2007This article introduces you to the REF CURSOR in Oracle PL SQL. I ve included numerous examples to help you understand how to work with REF CURSOR.... Refurbished and Used Networking Equipment Network Liquidators sells refurbished and used networking equipment for up to 95% off list, with a 1 year warranty. ...
Working with Directory Iterators and Proxy Classes with PHP 5
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007If you re a strong advocate of using pattern-based programming for developing your PHP applications then this pair of comprehensive tutorials might find a place on your quick reference list. Welcome to the concluding part of the series Building Proxy Classes with PHP 5. In two parts ...
Working with MySQL Result Sets and the Decorator Pattern in PHP
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006If you re one of those avid PHP developers who wants to learn how to apply the decorator design pattern within your Web applications then this group of articles might be quite appealing to you. Welcome to the second part of the series Using the Decorator pattern with ...
Working with MySQL and Sessions to Serialize Objects in PHP
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006If you re interested in learning how to combine objects sessions and MySQL this is the article that you ve been waiting for. It s the final part of the series Serializing objects in PHP. In three parts this series goes through the fundamentals of ...
Working with the MySQL Access Privilege System
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006If you need to administer MySQL this article gets you off to a good start. In this section we continue our discussion of security issues with the MySQL access privilege system. The third of a multi-part series it is excerpted from chapter four of the book ...
Working with Multiple Template Files to Separate Logic from Presentation
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006Welcome to the last part of the series Separating logic from presentation. In three tutorials this series teaches you how to develop an expandable template processor class using PHP 5 which exposes some useful features such as recursive placeholder replacement MySQL result sets processing ...
A PyGame Working Example, continued
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006In this fourth article in our series covering the creation of a video game using Python and PyGame we will code the internals of our game.... (Advertisement) MKS for SEI Capability Maturity Model Level 3 Free MKS whitepaper that focuses on providing an understanding of the requirements and tools that ...
Abstract Classes in PHP: Working with PHP 5
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006Here we are again. This is the tutorial you ve been waiting for Welcome to the last part of the series Abstract classes in PHP. If you ve already read the previous articles then you ll know that this series introduces the basics of abstract classes ...
A PyGame Working Example: Starting a Game
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006In PyGame for Game Development I showed you the very basics of PyGame s graphical side. However creating a game with PyGame requires a bit more. All the concepts described before need to be glued together somehow and new concepts will need to be introduced in order ...
The Singleton and Factory Patterns in PHP: Working With Singletons
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005In this fourth part of the series covering the Singleton and Factory Design Patterns in PHP we will discuss issues stemming from the fact that PHP 4 does not have an abstract class. Since we found it useful in the previous article to define the form element factory class ...
