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A tasty discount for Web Directions @Media 2010
Mar 09, 2010 - I'm pretty excited about heading back to Blighty for Web Directions @media. I've been living in the U.S of A for a couple of years but there isn't anything quite like the Big Smoke. So if you are in London on June 10th-11th why not join me for an amazing line up of speakers? Our friends, John and [...]

Create a Simple News Scroller Using Dojo
Mar 09, 2010 - a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://davidwalsh.name/dw-content/news-scroller-dojo.php" class="demo"img src="http://davidwalsh.name/dw-content/news-scroller-1.jpg" alt="" class="image"/My journey into Dojo javascript has been exciting and I’m continuing to learn more as I port [...]

CMStr.com: How to manually install Joomla 1.5+
Mar 09, 2010 - From CMStr.com there's a new tutorial showing you how to set up Joomla manually just in case something happens with the install and you need to change things yourself. Why would I want to do a manual install when my web host has this Fantastico thingy that will install Joomla for me? Good [...]

Open Hack Day Southeast Asia, and more!
Mar 09, 2010 - On November 21, 2009 we kicked off Yahoo's! first ever Open Hack in Southeast Asia. We held this inaugural event in Jakarta, and since this event, I have had numerous trips to Jakarta and decided it was time to summarize some of this activity. For an event recap including the list of winners go [...]

Integrate, Publish, Sell - The Google Apps Marketplace
Mar 09, 2010 - The Google Apps Marketplace, announced this evening at Campfire One, allows you to publish applications which integrate with Google Apps and sell them to more than 2 million businesses. Listing your integrated cloud app on the Google Apps Marketplace enables it to have seamless OpenID-based single [...]

Celebrate Your Developers: a Lesson From Mobypicture
Mar 09, 2010 - If you're looking to run a successful developer program, you should probably pay attention to Mathys van Abbe. He's the founder of Mobypicture (our Mobypicture API profile), which has just celebrated its 500th developer.

YDN 2.0 Site Release
Mar 09, 2010 - I'm pleased to announce that in the last week, we've successfully deployed our latest site update. Read along to see what we've been doing to make things a bit easier for you. Optional Domain Verification One of the biggest pain points for developers wanting to use Yahoo! APIs and services was that [...]

Google Says Goodbye to API Keys with New Geocoding API
Mar 09, 2010 - Google has released a new geocoding web service that is sure to bring a smile to map mashup developers working with the Google Maps API. Announced earlier this week on the Google Geo Developers Blog, version 3 of the popular geocoding web service has been released, with several improvements and new [...]

Facebook Finds its Place in the Location-Sharing Landscape
Mar 09, 2010 - The biggest social network on the web — that’s Facebook, by the way — is getting ready to unveil a location sharing service of its own, according to a report Tuesday. Citing unnamed sources, The New York Times’ Bits blog says there will be two components, “a service [...]

SQLAuthority Book Review Professional SQL Server 2008 Intern [...]
Mar 09, 2010 - Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting by Christian Bolton, Justin Langford, Brent Ozar, James Rowland-Jones, Steven WortLink to Amazon (Worldwide)Link to Flipkart (India)Brief Review: Having a book on internal and associating that with real life is almost an impossible task. [...]

What is Website Development?

Web development usually refers only to the non-design aspects of building web sites, e.g. writing markup, data mining, and programming. Web development can range from developing a simple, static webpage page to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, e-commerce website, or social network services. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

    • Top 6 Tips

    • Spend more time planning
    • Always validate input
    • Check for login bypass, injection, and XSS
    • Go back and fix your old code
    • Write stable, clean, and maintainable code
    • Less code is better code