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24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations

Implementing AJAX technology can be a hit or miss thing. Do it well and youll have users raving over the slickness it provides to the general user experience while if you mess it up, youll be at the receiving end of their wrath. Here are 24 tips to guide you with implementing AJAX technology within your web application.1. Understand What it All MeansFirst up, you need to understand what AJAX is, what it stands for and how it has revolutionized parts of the internet. Youll nee

Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices

Database operations often tend to be the main bottleneck for most web applications today. It’s not only the DBA’s (database administrators) that have to worry about these performance issues. We as programmers need to do our part by structuring tables properly, writing optimized queries and better code. Here are some MySQL optimization techniques for programmers.1. Optimize Your Queries For the Query CacheMost MySQL servers have query caching enabled. I

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