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Regular expressions are a very useful tool for developers. They allow to find, identify or replace text, words or any kind of characters. In this article, I have compiled 15+ extremely useful regular expressions that any web developer should have in his toolkit.

 Topics Covered

• Regular expressions syntax
• PHP regular expression functions
• Validate domain name
• Enlight a word from a text
• Enlight search results in your WordPress blog
• Get all images from a HTML document
• Remove repeated words (case insensitive)
• Remove repeated punctuation
• Matching a XML/HTML tag
• Matching an XHTML/XML tag with a certain attribute value
• Matching hexadecimal color values
• Find page title
• Parsing Apache logs
• Replacing double quotes by smart qutotes
• Checking password complexity
• WordPress: Using regexp to retrieve images from post
• Generating automatic smileys

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Cheat sheets and reference guides are useful for both beginners and advanced web professionals.

They can be used to help you remember syntax or as a tool to aid in memorization.In this post, we aim to cover the reference guides for all of the most commonly used platforms, software and coding languages.

In this web article you’ll find a compilation of the 30 most useful and well-organized cheat sheets, checklists and reference guides.

This is a Great resource for all of us. Here is the Article

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TIOBE Software has done a neat study to identify the most popular progaramming languages and the results are as below. The detail study could be found here.

Position Apr 2008	Position Apr 2007	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings Apr 2008	Delta Apr 2007	Status
1	1		Java	20.529%	+2.17%	A
2	2		C	14.684%	-0.25%	A
3	5		(Visual) Basic	11.699%	+3.42%	A
4	4		PHP	10.328%	+1.69%	A
5	3		C++	9.945%	-0.77%	A
6	6		Perl	5.934%	-0.10%	A
7	7		Python	4.534%	+0.72%	A
8	8		C#	3.834%	+0.28%	A
9	10		Ruby	2.855%	+0.06%	A
10	11		Delphi	2.665%	+0.33%	A
11	9		JavaScript	2.434%	-0.70%	A
12	14		D	1.169%	-0.35%	A
13	13		PL/SQL	0.608%	-1.28%	B
14	12		SAS	0.572%	-1.63%	A–
15	21		Pascal	0.513%	-0.06%	B
16	17		Lisp/Scheme	0.476%	-0.20%	B
17	22		FoxPro/xBase	0.459%	-0.09%	B
18	18		COBOL	0.409%	-0.24%	A–
19	16		Ada	0.393%	-0.29%	B
20	31		ColdFusion	0.384%	+0.11%	B

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Received Admission letter to the PhD in Informatics (Term Spring 2008).

I’m beyond trilled to start my studies. As a developer we never stop learning but its almost 2 years since my last degree. (MSc in IT - Keele UK )

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