If you’re like me and you develop applications for the Linux platform from a remote computer, then you may find the following tutorial interesting.

For a long time jEdit was the perfect editor for me. It has syntax highlighting for just about every language and it has an excellent (S)FTP file browser. What more could you need as a PHP developer? Apparently a lot. With the maturation of PHP development came IDEs which provide code completion, inline documentation, a class browser, SCM integration, fonts that are prettier than jEdit’s and so much more. The PHP IDE that has stood out the most to me is Netbeans.  Read more...

Javascript can be a frustrating language to jump into. I can recall personal experiences from my early days with it when I was sure there was some voodoo involved. A big reason for my confusion is that I approached it like a classical object oriented language. You can spend time fighting it and trying to make it behave like Java but in the end you’ll have a more pleasant experience if you accept that programming in Javascript is a different paradigm than programming classical object oriented languages.  Read more...

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So what happens when the visitor is finished logging in, or has even completed a purchase at the HTTPS website and is pushed back to the HTTP website? Their browser no longer sends the same cookie data to the server because their browsing an entirely different domain. So how is the HTTP website suppose to know which items were just purchased, or that the user is logged in, or what items are in the visitors cart since they might have just completed a purchase? It can’t, that means you have to take session handling to a whole new level and synchronize the data that both the HTTP and HTTPS sessions contain. If you use simple TSID, then you could potentially pass the session id from the HTTP website to the HTTPS website the first time the visitor is pushed there. There is just one MAJOR problem with that, and that’s called session hijacking.  Read more...