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Welcome to the fourth installment in our five-part series of xdebug articles on the Zend DevZone. This week, we will explore debugging PHP code with xdebug, the swiss army knife for PHP developers. In this article, we assume that you have xdebug installed on your system. If you haven't, the first article of the series explains how to install and configure xdebug.

I'm pleased to present you with part one of a two part series on creating a photo site using PHP, jQuery, and AJAX. Originally, I intended to fit the entire tutorial into one screencast, but that quickly became a pipe dream as I realized that there was simply too much to cover. Nevertheless, even if you only watch this first video, you should learn a great deal.

This is the 4th and final instalment in this series on converting a PSD to CSS, its taken a little longer to get finished than I would have liked! Here is the 4th part on how to turn a PSD design into a fully working webpage.

At the end of the last tutorial we finished working on the left column, this stage of the turorial we will concentrate on the right side column, the center column, the search box and a few IE hacks!

Meta-programming is the writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves) as their data, or that do part of the work at compile time that is otherwise done at run time. Check out a Ruby example of writing your own DSL (Domain Specific language).

Making a photograph of a person look amazing adds an extra dimension of professionalism to your design. These photoshop body enhancement tutorials will help you transform your people pictures to stunning models in next to no time. Most techniques involve similar use of the photoshop tools.

This post describes an implementation that allows you to get around the lack of anonymous classes in ActionScript. My biggest complaint about this solution is that it moves compile time errors to runtime. It does, however, hide these issues from the consumers of the implementat

This is n00b vs flash. The journey of one man learning flash by making a game. A game called The Dude - coming December 2008(ish)

My main aim here is to create somewhere where n00bs can come to learn basic Photoshop techniques, Flash Animations, Actionscript 2 & 3 + lots more. If you have a question or want to get involved (however silly it may seem!) email me here!

Now, there are an abundance of ways for freelancers to market their portfolio in order to get more exposure and ultimately get better clients. I’ve noticed that freelancers in particular don’t take time out of their usual schedule to come up with new, creative ideas on how to promote their portfolio. Here are a few ideas which you could follow to get more exposure as a freelancer.

I've decided to make the web design showcase themed as it is more easy to find what you are looking for. You will be surprised but there aren't many quality red CSS and Flash sites. But don't worry. I've gathered in this showcase article 22 of the best, and 23 more are waiting for the release of Part 2 so they can show off their red design.