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MariaDB/MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite3 - Comparing Command-Line Interfaces

By Daniel Bartholomew 

Don't be afraid of using your chosen database's command-line client. more>>

The Future Web at DrupalCon Denver

By Katherine Druckman 

It's DrupalCon season once again, which means Drupalers from all over the world will converge next week on Denver, Colorado, to educate each other about their favorite CMS and platform, and this eternal debate about CMS vs. platform seems to be at the heart of this year's event. more>>

Mustache.js

By Reuven Lerner 

In previous articles, I've looked at a number of uses for JavaScript, on both the server and the client. I hope to continue my exploration of such systems, particularly on the client side, in the coming months. more>>

Book Excerpt: Drupal User's Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site

By emmajane 
Chapter 17: Accessibility Creating Accessible Content

Building an accessible site is a lot easier when you know the qualities of an accessible site and how these qualities help different kinds of site visitors. Sometimes it’s hard to “see” where the problems are if you don’t have problems seeing. more>>

Your CMS Is Not Your Web Site

By Tobby Hagler 

A content management system is a centralized repository for your content. A Web site is a composite of decentralized fragments that are assembled on the edge, in just-in-time fashion as the content is being delivered to users. If it's not a Web site, what does a CMS do? more>>

Readers' Choice Awards 2011

By Shawn Powers 

The votes are in, the tallies are counted, the hanging chads have been evaluated, and we have our winners. This year holds a few surprises, a couple dominant players and as much open source as you can handle. We don't encourage gambling here at Linux Journal, but if you had an office pool going for pizza money, it's officially too late to make your wager.

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Are You Accessible?

By Katherine Druckman 

Accessibility to people with disabilities is an important issue in web and software development, and the folks at Knowbility, Inc. would like your input about how to better educate people about accessible technology. more>>

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Introducing CoffeeScript

By Reuven Lerner 

For many years, JavaScript had a bad reputation among developers. Sure, we would use it when we needed to do something dynamic in the browser, but we also would avoid it as much as possible. As I (and others) have written numerous times in the past year, however, JavaScript is going through a multidimensional renaissance. more>>

Opera Dragonfly

By James Gray 

Opera Software's Opera Dragonfly is a new suite of open-source debugging tools for Web developers and designers that got its name because "it eats bugs". The suite covers the full debugging work flow, from inspecting network access and downloaded resources to correcting JavaScript issues and seeing how CSS rules apply to the DOM. more>>

At the Forge - Backbone.js

By Reuven M. Lerner 
Write simple MVC applications in JavaScript with Backbone.js. more>>
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DrupalCon London is Around the Corner

By Katherine Druckman 

Many of you know what a huge Drupal fan I am, and while I am a bit heartbroken that I will not attend the upcoming DrupalCon London, happening August 22-26 in Croydon, I'd like to give the rest of you the skinny on DrupalCon so you can all go have fun without me.  To that end, I got a few tidbits from Robert Castelo, one of DrupalCon's organizers. more>>

At the Forge - Node.JS

By Reuven M. Lerner 
Want to write high-performance network server applications? Node.JS uses JavaScript to do exactly that. more>>
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Drush: Drupal for People Who Hate Mice

By James Walker 
Read on for more about this command-line shell and scripting interface for Drupal. more>>
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Drupal 7: the Webchick behind the Wheel

By Katherine Druckman 
Katherine Druckman talks to Angela Byron about Drupal 7 and managing a distributed open-source development team. more>>

At the Forge - PostgreSQL 9.0

By Reuven M. Lerner 
Looking for a relational database? The latest version of PostgreSQL makes a great database even greater. more>>
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