Category Archives: Web Development

Testing HTML Forms the Automated Way with WATIR

Despite identifying itself as “Web Application Testing in Ruby,” WATIR can perform automated acceptance testing for websites powered by any language, PHP included. All but the simplest HTML forms typically have too many variations to be effectively tested manually. The … Continue reading

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HTML5 Dangers

You celebrate: it’s the first Friday after your start-up opens its first real office and a round of funding came through. This is going to be a good weekend. HTML5 has the technologies you need to make your idea for … Continue reading

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Ten Linux Commands Every Web Developer Should Know

In the early days of the Web, you could build an appealing portfolio with little more than a basic understanding of HTML and a server-side scripting language such as PHP. Although these days the learning curve for developing websites remains … Continue reading

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Best Social Media Plugins for WordPress

Social media: love it or hate it, but you can’t ignore it. During the past few years, social media — along with Facebook and Twitter — have grown by leaps and bounds in popularity. If you have a personal or … Continue reading

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Automate Rails Application Deployment with Capistrano

Capistrano, a deployment tool that helps to automate Rails application deployment, harnesses the power of metaprogramming to allow the user to define the values of deployment techniques, repositories, databases and exception notifications. In this article, I explain how to automate … Continue reading

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