Scaling Big Time with Hadoop
How will your web application scale? When you reach millions of users, it’s likely you’ll need to rethink parts of your application’s architecture. In this article, Jack gives us a quick tour and demo of Apache’s Hadoop project, an open source framework for scalable distributed computing.

Host PHP in the Cloud with Windows Azure
Windows Azure is Microsoft’s entry into the cloud computing space. In this quick overview, Maarten shows how to leverage this platform in PHP applications.

Scheduling Tasks in WordPress: a Plugin Developer’s Guide
Raj takes a look at a lesser-known WordPress feature that’s of great potential use to plugin developers: the ability to schedule tasks for periodic execution without relying on operating system cron jobs.

Cross-browser Development with SuperPreview
In the final article in our Expression Web series, Alex shows us the ins and outs of the SuperPreview feature, which lets you preview your site across many browser rendering engines right in the editor.

WordPress in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 and the Microsoft Web
Platform
Thanks to some machine images provided by Microsoft and preloaded with the Web Platform Installer, firing up an EC2 instance running WordPress on a Windows server has never been easier. Bill walks us through it, step by step.

Silverlight and PHP, Part 2: Creating a Simple Twitter
Client
In his last article, Jordan showed us how to connect to a PHP web service from a Silverlight application. This time, we’ll take that knowledge and build a simple Twitter client using a PHP proxy.

How to Take Extraordinary Photographs, Part 2: Composition
Do your photos fail to do justice to your subjects? In this excerpt of SitePoint’s latest book: Photography for the Web, and part 2 of his Extraordinary Photographs series, Paul explains the art of composition. You’ll learn how to create beautiful images just by following some simple rules.

Introduction to Adobe Business Catalyst
Adobe’s Business Catalyst service gives designers the ability to provide a fully integrated online business solution to their clients, including email marketing, analytics, ecommerce, and site hosting, all from within one platform. In this first article of a two-part series, Rob shows us some of Business Catalyst’s template editing and ecommerce features.

Help! User Documentation that Works
For a website or web application that’s introducing new concepts or modes of interaction to its users, good, clear documentation is key. In this case study of a rewrite of Flippa.com’s help documents, Georgina lays out some vital guidelines for writing effective help pages.
