Here’s a brief overview of this month’s contents:
An Introduction to the Model-View-Controller Pattern
Jason Sweat writes an in-depth introduction to the Model-View-Controller
paradigm, a software design pattern that makes it easy to abstract the
presentation layer from the business logic.
Event-driven Programming
Tame the spaghetti beast! Jeffrey Horner shows us how event-driven
programming can greatly simplify the flow of any application,
web-driven or not.
Distance Calculations in PHP
If Mary lives in Washington DC and John in Wilmington, Delaware, what
are the chances that they’ll fall in love? Dr. Tarique Sani shows us
how easy (and fun) it can be to calculate distances between two places
using PHP and a bit of geometry (but he won’t make the geometry too
difficult… promise!)
The Great Deception
Welcome to a place of darkness, danger and unrelenting pressure: the
world of search engines! Marco Tabini digs deep into the dark world of
spiders and other crawlers in an attempt to discover how to make your
web site more search-engine friendly through the use of a few simple
(and totally legal) tricks.
EXCLUSIVE: The Progress of Postgres
Marco interviews the Geoff Davidson, CEO of PostgreSQL Inc. Luckily, a
gray morning in snowy Ottawa didn’t dull the conversation??don’t miss
this great opportunity for a broad overview of the open source database
company and its mission to conquer more market share while continuing
to satisfy the technical needs of a diverse community of users and
developers.
Output Buffering: Making Your Development Life Easier
Peter James explores this often heard of, but not always fully
understood PHP feature, and how it can make your life easier (or more
difficult, if you don’t know how to handle it!)
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