PHP classes and Javascript: S2ajax says "hi()"

Sajax is a ‘managed’ AJAX framework that was created by the fine folks at Modern Method a few years ago.What’s so great about it is the seamless communication between your back-end and the web page itself: you write your PHP code, tell Sajax which functions to export and they are now accessible from Javascript.

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A quick-fix for the Tweetback spam issue

I do not get it. I am a big fan of Smashing Magazine and I think that it was very nice of @jdevalk to write a plug-in that gives us full control over “Tweetbacks”. See this blog entry.Where Smashing Magazine and the author lose me, though, is that I have not seen any reaction, either on the magazine’s web site, or the author’s blog, regarding the issue that many blogs who installed the plug-in seem to now be suffering: they are being inundated with thousands of spammy Tweetbacks, most of them containing text like “This is a test”, presaging a potentially much more virulent attack when the spammers get their tool working.In fact, it may not be spam, but simply some tests gone wrong, but whatever the reason it caused grief to many blog owners – including me.

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ExtPHP now on Github

About 10 months ago, I released this tool, allowing developers to handle ExtJS like “managed” code in PHP: ExtPHP.

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Six Resources To Study And Master Git Source Control

It’s no secret that Git, as a source code control tool, has become quite popular in 2008, in part boosted by the success of the socially oriented github.com Here is a list of six resources that will help you get more comfy with Git, whatever your current knowledge of the tool. Let me know if you think that, after reading these six documents, you can still point to a few stones left unturned.3 Reasons To Switch To Git From Subversion A to-the-point document, created by Mark McBride, that covers several scenarios and for each scenario, shows how Git could make your life easier if you are not using it yet.

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More Blaqua

A couple years ago, some lad going by the pseudonym of @binderskagnaes, at DeviantArt, released a set of icons on a dark background lovingly named “Blaqua.” Then, he ventured to a great forest and got devoured. Or something. Whatever the reason, he never created more icons, which frankly is a pity. I am still using his icon set in my Dock, unfortunately the set was created before Twitter got popular, uTorrent or Evernote were released on OS X, etc.

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