• Part 2. Connecting to a Microsoft Access Database Using PHP

  Now that we've successfully loaded ODBC, all that we have to do now create and establish a connection to our Microsoft Access Database and perform CRUD operations on it using PHP.

• Part 1. Connecting to a Microsoft Access Database Using PHP

  This is the first post (out of two) to our connecting to a Microsoft Access Database tutorials. We are going to be configuring PHP and Apache to load/enable ODBC extension to PDO. Ultimately, we will successfully connect, read, update, or delete records inside the Database using PHP

• Asynchronously upload file using PHP and HTML5

  Uploading files via AJAX has never been easy....well....not until now. With the help of HTML5 we can now upload such files in the background and report data such as progress to the client browser

• How to build a dialog using CSS and jQuery

  Dialogs are good in displaying critical data to the user such as an alert or some mini form that doesn't need a page load. In this post we are going to make a simple dialog using CSS and jQuery

• Cropping an image in PHP

  We will creating a simple class in PHP for cropping an images

• Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript

  JavaScript is very powerful client-side/front end scripting language for web browsers. We are going to be using OOP to create our own objects

• Creating a treeview Part 2. Reading real directories and implementing lazy loading

  In this post we are going to be carrying from the previous example in when we created and designed our treeview. Now we are going to be implementing some server side code using PHP (A bunch of scripts referenced using AJAX) and generating JSON results.

• Creating a treeview Part 1. Designing it

  We will be creating a treeview from scratch using jQuery (just adding a bit of functionality for expanding and collapsing), and a bit of CSS (in this post)

• Creating good looking Zend forms

  The Zend framework provides a great way to create forms by just using OOP. Each element is an object in the form object that's translated into its HTML element. If you're using this for the first time it can be quite confusing. Adding special attributes can result into errors, or can cause the form to not behave in a way intended. Styling forms in Zend can also be quite cumbersome too. In this post we are going to be using the Zend_Form object and handling styling the traditional away

• Passing an object between activities using an Intent

  In this post we are going to be covering how to pass your custom objects through an intent between Android activities and services. It involves implementing a special interface called Parcelable that packs all your object as a parcel and allows your app to pass those parcels between its components. In this example we will be sharing playlists between activities

• Android Pie Chart Part 1. Drawing a pie

  The most critical part of creating a custom view is how it will present itself to the screen. In this post we will he creating a pie chart view. For now we will be focusing on drawing it on the screen. Of coarse, later on we are going to be adding functionality to our custom view and state.

• Android Pie Chart Part 2. Adding state feedback to the view

  Providing state feedback in a control is important because it serves as visual feedback that a control has acknowledged your action by drawing itself on touch. It should be no different when creating custom views. In this post we will be focusing on adding state feedback on our Pie chart view

• Android Pie Chart Part 3. Implementing callback methods on custom view

  Adding on to our previous pie chart custom view example, we are now going to be implementing callback methods in this post making our component respond to different events such slice clicks, when drawing is finished etc

• Creating and using shapes in Android

  We will be creating shapes in this post for your Android application. You can create shape graphics with gradients or solid colors, strokes, padding and alter corner radius'. We will cover what are the different type of shapes you can creating in Android and how to use them. No code necessary, just XML.

• Using custom fonts in Android

  Font can play a big role in the presentation aspect of your Android applications. This post is about importing and using custom fonts within your app.

• Hiding url parameters names using Zend routers

  Hiding url parameters from the address bar can help your websites, or apps in a lot of ways. One of the aspects of its necessity is about of security. It's also optimizing your url for search engines which might improve your site's ranking. Zend Routes provides such a mechanism for creating such urls with ease

• Setting up Virtual Hosts on your local Windows machine

  This post is about getting started of setting up virtual host (local domains) on your local machine. Its about learning how to configure your Apache server and taking advantage of it.

• Setting Up For Android Development

  A quick start on how to set up the Android SDK on your computer.