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These optimizations are fairly easy to apply to existing code and in some cases can result in big speedups. Remember the all-important maxim though, the fastest code is code that isn't called.

Good website that has a repository of all 23 fundamental design patterns. This also has UML diagrams for each pattern and sample code. Must have bookmark

Agile software development is a conceptual framework for undertaking software engineering projects. There are a number of agile software development methods, such as those espoused by The Agile Alliance.

Tutorial to show howto:

* Collect information about the user during signup and store that information into MySQL
* Generate a random password and encrypt it into the database
* Validate the user's email address before they can login
* Create a login system for the user to validate his/her information against the database
* Create a lost password recovery tool
* Basic Form handling with PHP
* Some PHP Session basics
* Use the Mail function to send the user an email
* And Much more!

If you want to outsmart the Spanish Inquisition, learn Python. This article is a practical introduction to writing non-trivial applications in Python.

Interactive SQL tutorial, learn about: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Mimer, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Access.

An easy to follow tutorial on the web programming techniques. Designed specifically to the absolute beginner. Although using PHP, the most popular web programming language, it is not a PHP tutorial but a Web concepts tutorial, saving the beginner from common errors that happen when the focus is on the language.

A good site on Ruby programming. Good place to start for beginners

Nice simple tutorial on how to write your own social bookmarking plug-in for your blog or web site.

HowTo for creating simple RSS XML feed using PHP. This example has a RSS feed created via PHP-CLI and run once a day via CRON.