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Typed Properties in PHP 7.4 Introduction Many languages, especially scripting languages, have a loosely typed variables [...]
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Time to Use PHP Return Types in Your Code Introduction: What is a Return Type in PHP and Why Does it Matter? PHP is a loosely typed [...]
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6 Common HTML5 Newbie Mistakes Here are six common HTML5 mistakes to save you from the most common, easily avoidable yet [...]
AJAX Revolution (Part II) – jQuery.Ajax() Previously, we briefly covered the early days of Ajax, the technology that allows developers to [...]
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MySQL Character Sets & Collation In this post, we will focus on a specific type of character set and encoding, MySQL CHARSET [...]
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My Favorite Browser Debug Trick In today’s modern browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge, there is [...]
JSON in Plain English JSON is an open standard, lightweight data-interchange format. It stands JavaScript Object [...]
