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Pman's Resources

Here you will find some of the resources that I use regularly. Most of my web programming skills I have learned by myself from online tutorials, code examples, demoes etc. Since I got a lot from online, I feel that I should give something back to the community as well. That's why, I wanted to write some tutorials on topics that I know about, but at the same time I also feel that there's still so much more that I need to learn, even about the topics that I already know about. I will still try to write some tutorials and post it in here, when I have time to do that. You can visit the articles and tutorials section, which I have used for my own learning purpose.

Articles

Learn about Unicode and Characters

"So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will." more »

Scheduling programs in Linux system

If your site is hosted on a linux server, this could be very useful. For example, simply create your own script or program that will backup your data and email the backup to another server. Next, create your cron job / schedule your program to run whenever you want. You no longer need to back up your data by yourself. more »

Encrypt your site

Want to secure you site by encrypting web pages? You can learn the basics of encrypting web pages from this well-written article. They also have a lot of other articles that you can read. more »

Multiple Submit buttons in HTML

"Quite a number of folks seem to mistakenly believe that a form can have only one "submit button". This document demonstrates that it is possible to have several form submission "controls" on the same form in HTML, and to detect which one was used in a server-side script, without having to rely on any client-side scripting." more »

Database Systems and Structures

A complete eBook that will teach you everything about database systems and stuctures from start to end more »

Cross Browser Javascript and CSS

Schorched Tortois's experience on cross browser javascript and css problem and how he solved his issues. more »

Enable TAB Key in TEXTAREA

Enable the tab key in textarea and give the user more flexibility and better experience. more »

Fade Anything Using Javascript

A very good technique to allow fading any element from one colour to another using javascript more »

Tutorials

Web Programming Tutorial

A very good site that has tutorials on xml, html, javascript, php, mysql and more. Besides showing examples, this site also shows the wrong syntax or common mistakes people might make. A very good site for learing web programming. more »

W3Schools

The name couldn't be any better than that. This site has step by step tutorials on almost all the web programming languages and examples as well. more »

CSS Play - Experiment with Cascading Style Sheet

This site is mainly dedicated to CSS. There's a lot of demoes or examples on many different catagroies. more »

CSS Resources and tutorials for developers

A nice collection of step by step tutorial on CSS. Learn how to create css based layouts, menu or using css float property. more »

PHP Freaks - You PHP Help Center

A site that is dedicated to PHP programming only. You will find a lot of useful tutorials, articles, libraries and ofcourse a forum where you can post your php problems. more »

Using Sessions in PHP

This is a great tutorial for if you are want to learn the basics of using sessions in your php application. You can learn more about sessions in php from official php site. more »

Creating PHP Login Script

An excellent tutorial for writing your own login script in php. This login script tutorial also uses sessions. more »

Javascript For Object Oriented Programmers

"This appendix won't aim to teach you how to program in JavaScript... JavaScript can do a lot of clever things that Java and C# can't. Some of these can help you to write better code, and some can only help you to shoot yourself in the foot more accurately! It's worth knowing about both..." more »

Javascript Closures

Learn about Javascript Closures. "A "closure" is an expression (typically a function) that can have free variables together with an environment that binds those variables (that "closes" the expression)..." more »

Object Oriented Javascript with example

Yes, you can have object oriented javascript code. A very good step by step tutorial more »

Object Oriented Javascript

Another great tutorial on object oriented javascript. more »

Javascript Tutorial

A great tutorial site on javascript. This site also has tutorial on object oriented javascript and adding DOM events dynamically. more »

Getting Started With AJAX

Want get started with the new trend of AJAX? You must read this tutorial provided by mozilla. It will guide you through the basics of AJAX with example. more »

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