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Netbeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is an open source integrated development for software developers. You can run the Netbeans IDE on various platforms which include Linux, Windows, Solaris and MacOs. It is aimed at providing a comfortable environment for the developer during each stage of development. This is accomplished by integrating precise features required for PHP development into the Netbeans IDE.

As most PHP projects characteristically connect to MySQL databases, Netbeans has made a concentrated effort to offer to this configuration. By means of the Netbeans IDE 6.5 Beta, web developers can now benefit from the standard features like the syntax highlighting, refactoring, code templates, pop-up documentation, easy code navigation, debugger and lots more.

I have been currently using Netbeans IDE and I have penned down few features and positives that I came across in writing PHP based web application.

• It comes free.
• Netbeans will go along with PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Java and lots more.
• Indentation format is out of the top draw in Netbeans. You select a block of code which contains css, html or php code, Netbeans will make sure it formats the code evidently and placed indentation adequately.
• Common functions of PHP are shown automatically or you can use ctrl + space.
• While writing HTML, Netbeans ensures it checks the div id properly and it indicates if there is any hitch so that you can easily fix the bug.

I can stiff my neck out and say it’s the most popular IDE and also the most popular. So I would give an overall score of 8 out of 10 for Netbeans IDE.

1. Ajax powered Wordpress Themes:

Alisha provides a list of Ajax powered Wordpress themes. You may want to try one or more.Some of them are good, Some are limted with one or two features like search. Some not found. But worth a look if you plan to use Ajax in your templates.

http://www.softtechreviews.com/web-design/ajax-enabled-wordpress-themes/

2. Ajaxed Wordpress

This is a Wordpress plugin which adds power, usability and the beauty of AJAX to Wordpress based blogs and WordPress based websites. The plugin improves the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential or the blog/site.

http://ajaxedwp.com/#awp::

3. Ajax for Wordpress plugin developers

So how about writing your own Wordpress plugins with Ajax? Wordpress codex helps you to begin: http://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins

4. Four Ajax Wordpress plugins

Finally, here are four plugins discussed. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9574 This should help you to get more ideas to start.

Index on multiple columns for SQL performance

Since clustered index reorders the table and arranges the data according to the index key, SQL Server allows only one clustered index per table. This results in amazing performance, when you only have to worry about one particular column. If you are in need to order the data by more than one column. Since we can’t use clustered index for multiple columns, unclustered index are used to gain a performance increase. We can specify a key value for every unclusterd index, plus the value obtained from cluster index; which acts as a pointer to the actual values when we need their data. If unclustered index is keyed on the values needed for a given task then query engine will never be in need of visiting the actual rows. After learning everything it needs from the index and scope then it will visit the qualifying rows.

1) Increase SQL Server stored procedure performance with following three tips:

        Stored procedures plays a vital role in enhancing the performance of the database. The following three tips will help us to maximize database performance, when stored procedures are used.

Use NOCOUNT:
           If NOCOUNT option is turned off, on each operation: stored procedures returns information concerning the number of rows affected and it increases network overhead. By default the Option NOCOUNT will be turned off.  If we turn on NOCOUNT option, stored procedures will block row count information so that it will reduce the network overhead occupied with information communication to the user.

Use return values:
           Queries are used to validate information or to return a single value. The return value of stored procedure can be used to retrieve a single value from a query and mainly useful when inserting a new record. The information necessary for retrieval is the primary key value. Place the statement “RETURN <value>” at the end of the query to utilize the return value in stored procedure.                 
        
Optimize table access with NOLOCK:
          Transaction safety is not mandatory for most of the database access. This is apparent in MySQL database product that it does not contribute any record locking capability. Any access to a database table or a stored procedure in SQL will make tremendous performance gains when a table hint is used, which lets the SQL engine ignore and not perform locks for a given function.

Many of our customers who look for Ecommerce solutions find Opensource solutions to build it cost effectively and they like what we recommended, Cubecart!There are reasons:1. Easy to customize (skin based), and this keeps the cost low.
2. You can bring great look and feel with skins, you can make the site like complete custom design. No footsteps of Cubecart would be visible.
3. PHP programmers likes it. – Clean code structure, easy to manage. Our PHP programmers have a great feel about it.
4. Designers like it. Clean XHTML interface and CSS driven.
5. SEO guys like it. Search Engine Friendly URLs, Custom URLs, Meta Tags, Robots.txt & PHP Session Killer etc
6. Good support from Cubecart team apart from forum support (Like http://www.cubecartforums.org/)
7. Low cost, $180 only.
8. Good number of alternate payment solutions, Shipping modules (http://www.cubecart.com/modules)
9. Web2.0 interface, But I am yet to see any Mashups.We strongly recommend and teach the importance of SEO for customers who wants us to build Ecommerce sites, as any online business should consider SEO as their primary marketing channel – Not just news paper ads, for long term business through online. Cubecart is one good choice to build SEO friendly Ecommerce sites that supports online marketing.