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Title High Performance Web Sites
Author Steve Sounders
ISBN-10 0-596-52930-9 (ISBN-13 978-0-596-52930-7)
Pages 146 (including index)

High Performance Web Sites by Steve Saunders is an attempt at teaching people how to best go about optimizing their web sites. No I do not mean optimizing for search engines, I mean optimizing for the best user experience (and believe me it is a relief to have a book aimed at giving the user a better experience rather than the search engines). (more…)

I subscribe to many blogs. Most are full of mediocre information. However there is 1 blog that tends to stand out and is by someone who I admire as a PHP coder.

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On my daily rounds of forums views I regularly come across threads that show how much of a problem getting a good coder can be. For that reason I have compiled the following guidelines. (more…)

Yesterday I was doing my usual run on forums. Looking about to see what I could find that was interesting.

I have a particular interest in PHP coding and came across a user who had made a 3,4 and 5 digit domain name generator. I had a quick look to see how well he had done but found there was a problem. (more…)

Matt Cutts has recently posted an article about Fuzz Testing.

For those of you that are unaware fuzz testing is the art of testing a piece of software by giving it random input. The reason this can be effective is that it can trigger unforeseen bugs within an application. In fact Matt gives an example of tests carried out on UNIX software which found that a substantial percentage of softwares were vulnerable and the fuzz testing caused the application to crash. (more…)

EDIT **IN THE TIME SINCE THIS WAS POSTED THE OFFER HAS EXPIRED. **

Just a quick post for the time being as I have found an offer that may be of interest.

Sitepoint are currently giving away PDF copies of the “Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Web Application” written by Patrick Lenz. (more…)