Unhandled Perception

Regular expressions are the PHP programmer’s equivalent of being audited by the IRS. The mere thought of an encounter is enough to cause heart palpitations. This isn’t entirely without reason; after all, regular expression syntax is almost as indecipherable as the United States tax code, resulting in an almost automatic need to consult a manual every time the programmer needs to perform a particularly complex parsing task.

Link: http://www.phpbuilder.com/…

In case you don’t know, SimplePie is a way to parse your RSS items with PHP. This means that if you want to make a custom feed for yourself, SimplePie makes it… well simple. I’ve taken 14 of the top tutorials out there and put them into a nice list just for you.

SimplePie makes working with RSS Feeds a snap.

Sample of what can be done with SimplePie:

• HorseUrls: http://horseurls.com/
• Restaurant Industry News: http://openmenu.com/industry/

Link: http://thedesigned.com/…

What if you could build realtime web apps with the same ease as you build static web pages in PHP today? Without long polling, event handling and state synchronization, the engineering complexity of realtime web applications would drop by an order of magnitude. There would be a fundamental shift in the way we build the realtime web. This is the future of Fun.

Link: http://marcuswest.in/read/fun-intro/

Imagine you’re selling at a market or expo and want to take credit cards. Rather than hassle with cash, you can use the new Android Payment Extension for the Google Checkout Store Gadget on your laptop to allow Checkout customers to purchase from their phones.

This extension helps merchants quickly set up a store and accept payments via Google Checkout and Android…

Link: http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/…

Today we are making an Advanced Event Timeline with the help of PHP, MySQL, CSS & jQuery, that will display a pretty time line with clickable events. Adding new ones is going to be as easy as inserting a row in the database.

Link: http://tutorialzine.com/…

The Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 35 best practices divided into 7 categories.

Link: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

Shadowbox is a web-based media viewer application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can showcase a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.

Link:  http://shadowbox-js.com/index.html

PHP for Android project (PFA) aims to make PHP development in Android not only possible but also feasible providing tools and documentation.

Link: http://phpforandroid.net/

It’s very simple to get entered.  Just leave a comment on this blog post saying why you want Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and what you’ll do with it.  That’s it.

On July 31st I’ll choose a winner

Here’s what I am giving away: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio…

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WordPress is a popular blogging platform and content management system, but it can also be used for powering e-commerce websites. Although its primary purpose is not e-commerce, there are a number of plugins and themes available that will allow you to use WordPress for your online store (some are free and some are premium).

Link: http://designm.ag/…

You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend’s faces. You can even make use of the phone’s sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.

But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android’s text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior.

Can’t wait to get my hands on this.

Link: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

Here’s a quick sample showing how to auto-expand a SELECT (drop-down) when the user tabs into the field.  The effect is accomplished using JavaScript.

(view source-code to see how it’s done)

Link: http://www.php-insite.com/…

After a long discussion with some of my RISC colleagues about what the 5 most important algorithms on the world are, we couldn’t reach a consensus on this question. So I suggested to perform a little survey. The criterion for suggestions was that these algorithms should be widely used. Further we restrict ourselves to the fields of computer science and mathematics.

Link: http://www.risc.jku.at/people/…

A must read for anyone in the web design (works for development too).  Such simple concepts yet designers struggle with them.  Why?

Link: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1133

Install multiple apps at once without toolbars or clicking Next.

1. Pick your favorite software below.
2. Click “Get Installer” and run it.
3. You’re done!

Excellent way to get your system all setup for web design / development.  Click through the applications you want, download the custom made installer and install the apps.  Couldn’t be easier.

Link: http://ninite.com/