Most web hosts have the ability via their control panel to offer an entire site backup , and this is the minimal functionality you should consider. Generally there’s a site backup link within the control panel that create a tar ball…
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Twitter like alerts via simple Jquery and PHP
One of the minor challenges of creating a web application , is to indicate that something was successfully or unsuccessfully completed when transitioning to a new page or screen. I find it’s very important and reassuring to let user’s know what has happened ,…
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HTML5 Gaming I’m beginning to look into various html5 javascript game and graphics frameworks. The toughest part is always choosing a good framework in the beginning, since its such a time investment to learn a new API , plus hope that the…
Continue reading html5 – javascript game frameworks? – Game DevelopmentCode Samples – Preventing simultaneous web updates
Below are some interesting problems and solutions that I have come accross. Problem: In a web based system how to you prevent simultaneous web updates (aka overwrites) to the same record by different users seeing potentially different data. This is a play…
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Here’s a variation of a PHP caching script. One of the things I frequently find myself doing for page(s) that take a long time to render, especially if they are a long running process, is to generally save a recent cached page (or more…
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Below are some interesting problems and solutions that I have come accross. Problem: In a web based system how to you prevent multiple updates to the same record by different users seeing potentially different data. This is a play on the old…
Continue reading Sample Code: prevent web page overwritesSample Code: Basic Login , Roles authentication and Login attempt alerts.
Problem: In most web based system one of the most commonly used process is user authentication and page access. This Login function is pretty typical here’s my example: Notice I set a bunch of session variables that I frequently use…
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