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Speed Up Your Web Site with Varnish

By Pablo Graziano 

Varnish is a program that can greatly speed up a Web site while reducing the load on the Web server. According to Varnish's official site, Varnish is a "Web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy". more>>

Using Salt Stack and Vagrant for Drupal Development

By Ben Hosmer 

What if, just like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, you could wake up to a fresh and identical development environment completely free of yesterday's experiments and mistakes? Vagrant lets you do exactly that. more>>

Drupal Is a Framework: Why Everyone Needs to Understand This

By Diana Dupuis 

Everyone planning and building Web solutions with Drupal benefits from understanding what a "hook" is—and why Drupal is not a CMS. more>>

Dart: a New Web Programming Experience

By James Slocum 

JavaScript has had a long-standing monopoly on client-side Web programming. It has a tremendously large user base, and countless libraries have been written in it. Surely it is the perfect language with no flaws at all! Unfortunately, that is simply not the case. more>>

SQLAlchemy

By Reuven Lerner 

Although it sometimes might seem as if relational databases have gone the way of the dinosaur, making way for non-relational (NoSQL) databases, such as MongoDB and Cassandra, a very large number of systems still depend on a relational database. more>>

Speed Up Your Drupal Development Using Installations and Distributions

By Oliver Davies 

Do you find yourself repeating the same steps whenever you start a new Drupal project? Do you always download and enable the same modules, and make the same configuration changes every time? As we start doing more and more Drupal projects at Nomensa, I noticed that we were doing exactly this, so I started to look into ways to streamline our initial project setup process. more>>

Real-Time Messaging

By Reuven M. Lerner 

Want to send messages to all the browsers connected to your site? The pub-sub paradigm, run through Web sockets, might be just the solution. more>>

Phonegap Application Development

By Mike Diehl 

How many times have you heard, "there's an app for that"? But sometimes, there actually isn't "an app for that", or the apps that do exist don't meet your needs. As Linux users, we tend to like to scratch our own itches, and if that means we write some code to do it, so be it. more>>

Creating and Theming a Custom Content Type with Drupal 7

By Danny Englander 

One of the great new things about Drupal 7 is that it's now easier to customize your site content. In Drupal 6, you typically had to use the CCK (Content Construction Kit) module for fine-grained control in customizing content, but that has been folded into core for Drupal 7. Drupal 7 is now a true content management framework (CMF). more>>

Chrome Extensions

By Reuven M. Lerner 

Create applications inside the Chrome browser with standard Web technologies: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. more>>

Google Dart Article Correction

By James Slocum 

I'm the author of the article "Introducing Dart, the New Web Language from Google" in the March 2013 issue. I wrote the article in late December and submitted the article in early January of this year. During the time I was writing it, I was using Dart M2 (version 0.2.9.9). I made sure to have my colleagues check over my code and worked to make sure that everything was perfect! more>>

March 2013 Issue of Linux Journal: Web Development

By Shawn Powers 

Remembering Spidey

Back before Google was born, and even longer before it became a verb, the World Wide Web was often searched by a little spider on a surfboard. more>>

Database Integrity and Web Applications

By Reuven M. Lerner 

Want to improve the integrity of your data? Place constraints in the database, as well as in your application. more>>

The Past, Present and Future of GIS: PostGIS 2.0 Is Here!

By Stefano Iacovella 

Extend PostgreSQL's capabilities with PostGIS 2.0 and discover all the magic of spatial databases. more>>

Switching to Chrom(ium)

By Reuven Lerner 

For someone who works with, writes about and teaches cutting-edge technologies, I tend to be a bit of a laggard when adopting new ones. I upgrade my laptop and servers very conservatively. more>>

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