Free and Open Source Charting Libraries
There aren’t too many free options for charting on the web, either client-side or server-side, that provide...
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Often you need solid metrics on the performance of your web application. Benchmarking your website can provide...
View ArticleDebugging HTTP with Fiddler
Fiddler is a request inspector, form tamperer and general debugging proxy for HTTP. Fiddler enables web developers...
View ArticlejGrowl, an OS X Growl-like jQuery message plugin
jGrowl is a plugin for the jQuery that generates unobtrusive notification boxes on a page. It has...
View ArticleMigrating legacy PHP 4 applications to PHP 5
As Ivo Jansch pointed out on the Ibuildings blog, there’s barely a month left till security fixes...
View ArticleSelenium IDE: Front-end web application testing
Ever setup a demo for a client, only to find you had a syntax error in one...
View ArticleSimpleTest: Unit Testing for PHP
We recently looked at front-end testing of web applications with Selenium. Today, we’ll take another approach to...
View ArticleFive Handy Web Development Bookmarklets
When developing a UI for your web application, it’s easy to lose a lot of time waiting...
View ArticleEasy Screen Scraping in PHP with the Simple HTML DOM Library
Client-side developers always had it easy – libraries such as jQuery and Prototype make finding elements on...
View ArticleStyling Disabled Buttons / Disabled Text Boxes in CSS
As your forms grow in complexity, you’ll probably find a need to temporarily disable an input –...
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