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Automated testing is an essential part of application life-cycle (see Continuous Integration).

Make of JavaScript the language you need Any diligent developer is constantly working on improving his or her code.

The classical design of object in JavaScript can be expressed like: var ConstructorFunc = function () { var _privateMember = "private member"; } ConstructorFunc.prototype.publicMember = "private member"; ConstructorFunc.prototype.privilegedMethod = functi…

You know, when coupling is not loose, components depend too much on each other.

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In my previous article among other patters I was telling about Flyweight.

After having your project fully tested, deployed and running, it seems the application architecture is pretty good enough.

Few years ago only lazy didn’t say about bringing desktop application experience to the web ones.

When testing a web-site, nevermind who you are developer or QA-engineer, it happens to you pretty often to fill-in form fields again and again.

Have you ever noticed Google+ has an amazing feature called Google Feedback.

Apparently social networking is the banner of the nowadays web.

I anticipate Google to swallow Review Services market using G+.

Enabling your videos for iPhone Safari doesn’t seem as a big deal.

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Standards are being always approved with a slow pace.

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Let’s assume you have installed phpBB3 to run forums on the web-project you are working on.

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If you work with Zend Framework, you likely tried ZF Console (Zend_Tool on command line).

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Everybody time to time comes to the dilemma which JS library to choose for further development.

Since YUI 3.1 version, the framework includes internationalizing utility.

However fondly you treat your application, errors happen and they happen often when it is being developed.

If you are used to switch between JS and PHP programming, it obviously happened to you to miss some of JS flexibility in PHP.

Choice problem In the previous article we examined the only way of code analysis – PHP tokinizer.

Here lies the story… First I decided rewrite my old BlogSlideShow JS-class.

How to Make Translation Term Coverage Report Let’s assume our application has a UI translation module.

RIA is considered one of the most distinctive features of the modern Web, reflecting a trend where web applications grow to resemble desktop applications.

Eventually I reincarnated my personal site using alpha version of Sapid CMF 2.

Ten years ago, most web projects were static and development was relatively straightforward.

Why Facebook applications made sense Most Facebook applications in 2008 were trivially simple.

It is common to encounter success stories that begin with the words: “I’ve have been lucky in my life.

Opinions on the future of Web 2.0 differ, and sometimes a lot, but no one would argue that this concept in many ways shaped the present-day Internet.

Today there’s no lack of reports on successful Web 2.0 community projects(1).

What do we actually know about e-business?

In the mid-2000s, everyone seemed to be talking about Web 2.0.

Introduction Object oriented approach has been popular for a number of years.

Technical sites often include terms that readers may not know.

In 1995, Vignette introduced the first commercial Content Management System (CMS).

Users coming from desktop apps tend to find web application interfaces frustrating.

XML has acquired a distinguished popularity lately.

Each minute the amount of content in the Web is surging up.

Every day millions of new web documents emerge on the Internet, and the amount of web management tools is growing simultaneously.