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Lightweight Markup Languages
Lightweight markup languages are markup languages designed with an honest attempt to make them simple enough for non-programmers to read and write in them. There are several lightweight markup languages available on the internet. Arpan Dhandh...ania shows you how to use the two most popular language...

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Working with the Ajax Control Toolkit
The Ajax Control Toolkit is a community project from Microsoft that contains a number of controls to design and implement Ajax-enabled controls seamlessly. In this article, Joydip Kanjilal shows you how to start working with the Aja...x Control Toolkit and explores two sample extender controls.

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Drupal 6.14, Introduction and Installation
Drupal provides developers with a database-driven CMS that comes "out-of-the-box" with many often-requested features. This article walks you through the installation process and showcase some of the out-of-the-box features that ...make Drupal so popular.

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How to Setup Canonical Domain Names with Apache
Not using canonical URLs has a negative impact on your SEO, as Google notices that several URLs are returning the same content and penalizes you. Sukrit Dhandhania shows you how to fix this problem using either httpd.conf ...or .htaccess.

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Rolling Out Your Own HTML Application Version Control
In this article, we're going to explore how to access Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) and connect to the Web through HTML Applications (HTAs) using VBScript as we roll out an HTA version control strategy.

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Mixing Scripting Languages
Today's article will highlight some of the ramifications of mixing scripting languages in your web pages. These discussions will be applicable to cross-browser scripting and HTAs as well.

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Review: phpFox, a Social Networking CMS with all the Bells and Whistles
Is it time to stop blogging and start networking? This CMS has everything a developer needs to create a top of the line social networking site with all the features that users have come to expect fr...om sites like MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Managing Logs in Apache
The two log files that most Apache setups generate are access.log and error.log. You can also choose to add more logging for things like URL rewriting, or gzip compression. As these logs grow in size and number, they become harder to manage. Learn... how to manage logging more easily in Apache.

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Working with Exceptions using ASP.NET Ajax
Exception handling is a technique that enables you to handle runtime errors. This article discusses exception blocks, best practices and how to handle exceptions efficiently using the ASP.NET Ajax framework.

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Object Orientated Programming- The beginning
This article explores the new Object Orientated Programming that became available in PHP 5. Get some hands-on experience as we create an application demonstrating the concepts.

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HTML 5: Offline Application Caching
All browsers have some kind of caching mechanism in place, but to be honest, they don't always work. Until HTML 4, the only work around was that the user had to save each page individually. HTML 5, thankfully, provides a smarter soluti...on.

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The Wonderful World of Web Applications: HTML Apps (HTA)
Just as desktop PCs all but replaced mainframes in the eighties, the web application may be poised to supersede the traditional desktop application. Today, we'll be looking at a Microsoft contribution called HTML A...pps (HTA). To get better acquainted with HTAs, we'll try our hand at writing a few ...

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XML and PHP Simplified - The Createdoc.php Script
Picking up where we left off, this article continues to look at the create document script, focusing on the HTML portion of the code followed by a look at the document editor script, which is at the heart of the program.

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Mod Deflate - Compress Your Web Pages and Save Bandwidth
Optimize your website so that it consumes less bandwidth using the Apache module mod_deflate. This module adds an output filter that allows output from your server to be compressed. A great side effect of the impl...ementation of this module is that it also speeds up your website.

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