Web Application Admin System Security

Design patterns for increased security of the admin area of a web application, explaining the idea and then the implementation.

Customising Baked Views in CakePHP

An introduction to how you go about customising CakePHP’s bake templates with some simple very simple examples. Part of a series of posts about customising bake templates and tasks.

Functional Specs for Web Applications

Answers to questions such as “What is a functional spec?”, “Why is it important?”, “How do you write a functional spec?”, “What does it contain?”, “What does it not contain?”

Planning a Successful Website

The process involved in planning a successful website from the questions to ask your client to what to do with the information gathered, such as Information Architecture, Content Plans, Navigation and Layout.

Development Methodologies for Web Applications

A comparison of two common software development methodologies, Waterfall and Iterative, with a focus on Web Application development projects.

It describes their respective processes, examines their differences, discusses their advantages and disadvantages, and finally, identifies which situations each is most appropriate for, and their criteria for success.