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New to Mercurial? Here is a quick reference to ease you into the differences of Mercurial, as opposed to SVN, and help you get your first project started!

Here are a few of tips to share with you regarding running your PHP from the command line.

With any new project, a solid design is a good place to start. So often have I seen databases designed on-the-fly only for data to be shuffled around to get that "link" table added. Or worse yet, tacking on extra columns like the classic: "image1, image2, image3...".

If you've already searched the Internet you'll like have quickly come across loads of posts about how to enable mod_rewrite on Ubuntu. Still doesn't work? I'll tell you why.

Today I saw a picture my cousin, clever little cookie, had generated of letters randomly placed and tightly grouped, but not overlapping, to form an image which produced a pleasing result - curious to how he did, I thought I'd have a go.

One of the many spoken about features of HTML5 is the canvas element. This new feature allows you to draw graphics on your page using javascript, providing a new depth of creativity on the web. And while there aren't currently too many practical uses on the web, there are plenty of the showcase type.

So you've just followed a tutorial on how to make a ball bounce. As fantastic as this is, and an important stepping stone, you soon realise the shortcomings of this feat - you ball moves in perfectly straight lines.

Ever wanted an all purpose, easy to use method of resizing your images in PHP? Well that's what PHP classes are for - reusuable pieces of functionality that we call to do the dirty work. Let's take a look at creating our own class for just this task.