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Xlib tutorial 2 - Events and errors - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Welcome back to the second Xlib tutorial. This time we will make our little program behave much more like a real application. We will learn how to handle events from the X server in order to process user input and resizing of our window. We will also set the title property of the window and how to handle errors.
http://zez.org/article/view/95/

Free Multiplatform raytracing with POV-Ray - (Found June 24, 2008 )

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer, or POV-Ray among friends, is a high-quality freeware tool for rendering photorealistic three-dimensional graphics. This is a "getting-started" tutorial for those completely unfamiliar with POV-Ray.
http://zez.org/article/view/71/

Asynchronous programming using Qt - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Qt already comes with an asynchronous system called events, however it is more or less bound to a set number of message types. In larger GUI applications one might be interested in something which scales better. I'll explain one such method.
http://zez.org/article/view/73/

Norwegian Ruby User Group - (Found June 24, 2008 )

A Norwegian user group for Ruby has been created at NorwayRug. This user group will promote the use of Ruby among programmers in Norway, and the group will exchange scripts, experiences, software and documentation. Everything which will further the acceptance of Ruby in Norway will be of interest on the groups mailing list.
http://zez.org/article/view/74/

Parsing XML using PHP - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Parsing XML is a very common task when programming for the web. This article will show you how to use the eZ xml parser to handle XML documents.
http://zez.org/article/view/76/

PHP References explained - (Found June 24, 2008 )

One of the most underused features of PHP is the ability to use references. The problem is that using references are rather troublesome in PHP. References was not part of the original syntax but has been added later on, thus leading to a somewhat confusing syntax. There's also little support for references in the native function set.
http://zez.org/article/view/77/

Building a fulltext search engine with PHP - (Found June 24, 2008 )

In this article I will show you how you can use the database library from eZ publish to build database independent fulltext search engine. I will show you a relatively simple algorithm to get search result ranking and stop words. You will get the full source code for a complete working program to get you started.
http://zez.org/article/view/83/

PHP attributes - (Found June 24, 2008 )

A common way of accessing structures or objects uniformly is to use attributes access (also known as properties or metadata). Attributes allows code to read and write single values from an object in one general way.
http://zez.org/article/view/86/

Xlib tutorial 1 - painting colors, graphics contexts and fonts - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Have you ever wondered what is going on behind the scenes of X11 windowmanageres and toolkits Here is a chance to get into native X programming with Xlib.
http://zez.org/article/view/87/

Security flaws in PHP - (Found June 24, 2008 )

When developing web applications in PHP (or any other languages for that matter) there are several security aspects we should consider. In this article I'll try to explain some of the most common security flaws, and show simple ways to secure your site.
http://zez.org/article/view/69/