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• Google Gives Buckyball a Tribute Doodle in HTML5
  Google dedicates a very cool tribute doodle to Buckminster Fuller's Buckyball. Developers, take note...it's all HTML 5.
  - Google makes an art form out of holidays by changing their logo to suit the mood. Almost one-upping their Pac-Man anniversary logo, they have created a Buckyball in full animation using only DHTML and, more specifically, HTML 5. Google's doodles are always a hit, and the Pac-Man Doodle was certain...
  
  
• MVC and the Zend Framework
  In this four-part article series, you'll learn about the model-view-controller (MVC) design architecture, why its use is a best practice when building web applications, and how using the Zend framework for PHP lets you make the most of this architecture. This article is excerpted from chapter 25 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
  - Even at this likely early stage of your Web development career, chances are you're already attempting to sketch out the features of a long-desired custom application. An e-commerce store perhaps? An online community forum devoted to stamp collecting? Or maybe something a tad less interesting but non...
  
  
• PHP: Rendering Web Pages Using the Composite View Design Pattern
  Welcome to the conclusion of a five-part series on the Composite View design pattern. This article will focus on a way to make use of this design pattern when you're building dynamic web pages. It involves a simple two-step rendering process.
  - As you probably know, one of the great commandments of good object-oriented programming says that whenever possible, Composition must be used over Inheritance, as the latter is an overrated way of reusing code. While its fair to admit that this principle should be used with due caution and, for obvi...
  
  
• Joomla Layouts: Customizing Your Website
  This is part two of a series on Joomla web development in Ubuntu. In the first part, you learned the basic but very important website development skills in Joomla. In this part, you'll learn how to work with templates and other aspects of creating a customized Joomla-based website.
  - Just to refresh your memory, the skills covered in the first part included the following: Changing your password in phpMyAdmin (in case you forget your administrator password). Changing the default and uploading Joomla templates. Working with and activating new Joomla templates. Working wi...
  
  
• PHP: Creating Dynamic Web Pages with the Composite View Design Pattern
  In this fourth part of a series, I demonstrate how to use all the composite view classes defined previously for generating a simple yet dynamic web page using a single rendering method. This example shows the real functionality of the Composite View pattern when it comes to rendering individual web page sections (partials) by using uncluttered, easy-to-follow client code.
  - Sharing nearly the same logic as its counterpart Composite (at least at a basic level), Composite View is a clever design pattern that takes full advantage of the functionality provided by Composition to manipulate single and multiple elements of a user interface through the same set of methods. W...