IETester is a free Web Browser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE 8, IE 7 IE 6 and IE 5.5 on Vista and XP (work on Windows 7 is in progress), as well as the installed IE in the same process. You don’t have to have installed all versions of Internet Explorer separately on your system to check web project you are working on. Now, IETester is able to give you necessary information...

Previous post Basic Security Related PHP Directives showed us the basic set of PHP directives which significantly affects security of not PHP apps only. This article increases the spectrum of PHP security related configuration directives.

Configuration of PHP is one of the significant security breakpoints. There is no doubt that ignoring this can lead to serious security consequencies. I’m not talking just about web applications vulnerabilities. Wrong PHP setup can allow to take your server under control by some invader. This article is trying to help you to do more for your calm sleep.

Regular expression is the basic functionality of pattern comparison. PHP offers two sets of functions for regular expressions – POSIX style and Perl style. Both types have slightly different syntax and this post should give basic overview of the POSIX one.

Many of my customers hold data in Excel files. Then, when they decide to build a web based, database driven project controlled by PHP, ask me to move their Excel data into the MySQL. Whether it’s possible and how to do it, will be the content of this post.

XMLHttpRequest is one of the goals of AJAX technology. But what XMLHttpRequest actually is, where it comes from or how we can use it will be the content of this short post.

Confused by jQuery syntax? Never sure when/where to place your parentheses, curly brackets and so-on? Use the jQuery Function Builder to quickly build up a collection of functions that will be called when the page has loaded/is ready. Using jQuery for scripting encourages good coding practices as it means that behaviour is layered over the top of a basic document which is more likely to be usable even if JavaScript...

SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML. SVG 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation and is the most recent version of the full specification. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a W3C Recommendation, and targets mobile devices.

Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Don’t you like long and unmemorizable URLs? Do you hate to write tens of characters in browser’s bar or simply don’t like those never ending URLs full of parameters?

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition – December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family...