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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 [...]

What Is the Difference Between SSL/TLS vs. SSH, HTTP vs. HTTPS, and FTP vs. SFTP?

The purpose of this article is to provide some principles to help you figure out various [...]

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 [...]

AJAX Revolution (Part I) – XMLHttpRequest

Image Source: AJAX logo by gengns.svg Intro Ajax is NOT a programming language but a technique [...]

MySQL Character Sets & Collation

In this post, we will focus on a specific type of character set and encoding, MySQL CHARSET [...]

Character Encodings for Beginners

Character encoding governs how characters travel from databases to web browsers and back again. [...]

My Favorite Browser Debug Hotkey

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 [...]