Doctrine is an object relational mapper (ORM) for PHP 5.2.3+ that sits on top of a powerful database abstraction layer (DBAL). One of its key features is the option to write database queries in a proprietary object oriented SQL dialect called Doctrine Query Language (DQL), inspired by Hibernates HQL. This provides developers with a powerful alternative to SQL that maintains flexibility without requiring unnecessary code duplication.

« Among programmers of any experience, it is generally regarded as A Bad Ideatm to attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions. How bad of an idea? It apparently drove one Stack Overflow user to the brink of madness [...] »

" The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. " __ Seymour Cray __

« Writing efficient user interfaces is the main maxim, here at Vimperator labs. We often follow the Vim way of doing things, but extend its principles when necessary. Towards this end, we've created the liberator library for Mozilla based applications, to encapsulate as many of these generic principles as possible, and liberate developers from the tedium of reinventing the wheel. »

« It gets me to thinking, what makes beautiful code? In HTML, it comes down to craftsmanship. Let's take a look at some markup written they way markup should be written and see how beautiful it can be. » [ + PNG image ]

« [...] " " " " and "\u00A0" have nothing, NOTHING to do with UTF-8 [...] Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 assign this character an integer number, 160, which is A0 in hex [...] UTF-8 is an encoding scheme [...] The UTF-8 representation of the Unicode character 160 (no-break space), is the pair of bytes C2 A0. »

Features : * jQuery expressions are intelligently presented in Firebug Console and DOM inspector * attached jQuery datas are first class citizens * elements in jQuery collections are highlighted on hover * jQuerify: enables you to inject jQuery into any web page

« I frequently see bare queries from programmers in discussion forums, especially from new programmers, who are worried about performance. These worries often stem from popular notions about what operations are "slow." Division. Square roots. Mispredicted branches. Cache unfriendly data structures. »

Project providing a set of classes for the PHP programming language, which allow you to write to and read from different file formats, like Excel 2007, PDF, HTML, ... This project is built around Microsoft's OpenXML standard and PHP.

« Git is a version control Swiss army knife. A reliable versatile multipurpose revision control tool whose extraordinary flexibility makes it tricky to learn, let alone master. As Arthur C. Clarke observed, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This is a great way to approach Git: newbies can ignore its inner workings and view Git as a gizmo that can amaze friends and infuriate enemies with its wondrous abilities. »

« This Wiki is dedicated to real-world (and ideally, browser-neutral) application of CSS. (Cascading Style Sheets) Topics include: techniques for page-layout and special display-effects, testing and validation, workarounds for limitations and bugs, CSS code-editors, beginner and advanced tutorials, and to a lesser extent pure CSS theory, and pure CSS power-demonstrations. Discourse on (X)HTML, DOM, and other webpage-technology areas is not forbidden, but keeping it associated with CSS is encouraged. »

1. Form Labels Work Best Above The Field 2. Users Focus On Faces 3. Quality Of Design Is An Indicator Of Credibility 4. Most Users Do Not Scroll 5. Blue Is The Best Color For Links 6. The Ideal Search Box Is 27-Characters Wide 7. White Space Improves Comprehension 8. Effective User Testing Doesn't Have To Be Extensive 9. Informative Product Pages Help You Stand Out 10. Most Users Are Blind To Advertising

« A 50%-good solution that people actually have solves more problems and survives longer than a 99% solution that nobody has because it's in your lab where you're endlessly polishing the damn thing. Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it. »

« These days, many browsers can function in Standards Mode and Quirks Mode. In a nutshell, they perform an intelligence test based on the document author's choice (or lack thereof) of Doctype. If they see a "good" Doctype, they enter Standards mode and more closely follow standards, otherwise they enter Quirks and … don't. »

These days, many browsers can function in Standards Mode and Quirks Mode. In a nutshell, they perform an intelligence test based on the document author's choice (or lack thereof) of Doctype. If they see a "good" Doctype, they enter Standards mode and more closely follow standards, otherwise they enter Quirks and … don't.

* HTTP `Location: ...´ header to redirect ; known as the Post/Redirect/Get design pattern. * Nonces (Number used only once) included in the page as a hidden form field (client-side) ; and server-side: Either stored in the user-session or in the database as the primary key (or at least a unique field) of the table you insert into. * Disable the submit button (drawbacks for the user). * md5 hash on the content of the submitted data.

This article is in french, sorry for that but I could find no relevant group to share this. Briefly it talks about how programmers (those who actually code) are perceived here in France: As guys dwelling the bottom of the hierarchy, whom only ambition *should be* to become lead progr. or better (architect, project lead, ...). i.e. programmer is not really seen as a career.

A brief translation of the intro.: « Yes, being a programmer when you're 30+ yo in France is worst than being a 40+ yo cashier. Most of the people who spend 90% of their time programming will try to be perceived as R&D engineers, project lead, solution architect, consultant, etc.. The best, when you're a poor contractor of an "software engineering company", in mission for a banque, et that you spend you days coding, is telling people that you are Engineer in finance. »

« Cache-oblivious algorithms take into account something that has been ignored in all the lectures so far, particularly, the multilevel memory hierarchy of modern computers. Retrieving items from various levels of memory and cache make up a dominant factor of running time, so for speed it is crucial to minimize these costs. The main idea of cache-oblivious algorithms is to achieve optimal use of caches on all levels of a memory hierarchy without knowledge of their size. »