Here are what I judge to be the Top 6 Digg Programming posts in last 30 days, for providing free training content and tutorials covering web application development. 


The Standards Way to Do Dynamic Data
Somewhere in between presenting static information graphics and complex, interactive data dashboards there's a need for a way to visualize moderately dynamic data on the web. Oftentimes the solutions you see implemented are clunky, for example, manually creating multiple frames of various data points and uploading them by hand. More…

Top 5 Javascript Frameworks
A list of the top 5 javascript frameworks and features. More…

The Javascript Programming Language
"Excellent presentation and great insight on the history and basics. Douglas rocks, yahoo is real lucky to have him!" More…

Learn to Ruby: 74 Quality RoR Resources and Tutorials
As is the case with every language, learning Ruby on Rails from scratch can be quite a pain. We've compiled a list of the best Rails resources the Web has to offer, covering installation (both manual and automatic, plus web hosts), tutorials (beginner and advanced topics), books, blogs, forums, cheat sheets, code snippets and API documents. More…

8 Defensive Programming Best Practices to Prevent Breaking Your Sites
This article describes some software development best practices that have been used to prevent problems that can break Web sites. More…

Faster PHP Apps - Profile Your Code with Xdebug
Using Xdebug and WinCacheGrind or KCacheGrind to profile PHP script execution. More…

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