"HTTP For Developers" Published
Posted in PHP and Writings on Monday, the 2nd of November, 2009.
If it's November already, that must mean that the October issue of php|architect magazine is out today, and with it comes the publication of another article by yours truly.
It's called "HTTP For Developers", which I hope should be fairly self-explanatory. I wanted to write about HTTP, because while it's really very important indeed, it tends not to be particularly well understood by developers.
So the article is kind of a whirlwind tour of how HTTP, and by extension the web itself, works, with what I hope is a particular focus on how this is relevant to developers. Hence the title.
There's plenty of other good stuff in this issue too, of course, including a couple of articles on image manipulation using PHP, and something I was particularly interested in: Brian DeShong's experiences using the original WURFL API for PHP to tailor content to mobile handsets.
Posted by Ciaran McNulty on Tuesday, the 3rd of November, 2009.
Really great article - it's always surprising how little understood the whole process of HTTP is by some developers.