https://www.startupcto.com/ 2026-04-29T01:32:51+00:00 https://www.startupcto.com/ https://www.startupcto.com/lib/tpl/scto/images/favicon.ico text/html 2023-06-27T04:51:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/backend-tech/building-an-api-best-practices?rev=1687841478 Building an API: Best Practices Update 25 Sept 2018: As a commenter points out, this 2012 article 'has not aged well'. I agree, and while I hope to update it at some point in the future, please see the comments ( and add comments!) for more modern best practices. text/html 2023-10-14T04:43:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/backend-tech/codeigniter-basics?rev=1697258621 CodeIgniter Basics CodeIgniter is one of the more popular PHP-based MVC frameworks in use today. CodeIgniter lets you quickly build out simple web applications, and provides easy-to-use support for common needs such as displaying error pages. CodeIgniter Structure text/html 2024-05-19T07:30:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/backend-tech/design-pattern-quick-reference?rev=1716103807 Design Pattern Quick Reference Short descriptions of common design patterns. This only scratches the surface of what's available (or even what's commonly used); add more in the comments if your favorite pattern isn't here. * Singleton: A pattern which only allows one of itself to be instantiated. Somewhat controversial, and frequently used like a 'global' variable. text/html 2023-10-14T04:43:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/backend-tech/going-utf-8-utf8-with-php-and-mysql?rev=1697258631 Going UTF-8 (utf8) with PHP & MySQL UTF-8 is a character encoding standard which supports characters for (nearly) all the languages in the world. Older standards, such as US-ASCII and ISO-8859-1, contains only characters for English (US-ASCII) and Western European languages (ISO-8859-1). text/html 2023-10-20T20:29:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/backend-tech/home?rev=1697833764 Backend Tech backend-tech index