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Web 2.0 is all about social networking and making websites interactive for their users. With the advent of sites like Myspace and Facebook, it seems like there are more ways to communicate and socialize than ever before. Unfortunately, both sites are losing the battle to spam and will soon become as riddled with as many tacky profiles as Myspace has. Ning solves this problem, and many more…

One of the greatest tools in my development arsenal is the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Eclipse provides a wealth of goodies originally developed for Java developers, similar to Microsoft’s Visual Studio. The Eclipse Project has grown to be one of the largest language editors, with plugins for Ruby, Python and more. Among the newest plug-ins is the Rich AJAX Platform (RAP).

Novice database designers (who are often web developers) will quickly construct schemas based on the projection of data on their web applications, such as a contact form. Unfortunately, this thinking can lead to redundancy and quickly eat away precious space (and performance) on your system. Today we discuss an elementary approach to combating this problem.

If you run a website, you are most likely running a database underneath. The de facto free database for internet applications is without a doubt MySQL . However, running this can be a bit overwhelming if you’ve never touched a database before. Here are 20 resources for getting you starting with MySQL, covering everything from installing to optimizing your queries to perform better:

BuiltWith is a free online website analysis tool that measures a website’s SEO effectiveness. The site calculates scores on nearly every aspect of on-site SEO, from 0 to 100. With a bit of magic and persistence, we’re going to see how to achieve 100s across the board on their optimizer, significantly increasing your chances of reaching page 1 for your keywords.