MySQL is nowadays a standard in the field of databases for the Web. But what are the best tools for MySQL database management?

If you are looking for an alternative to PHPMyAdmin or MySQL GUI Tools here is a review of 10 graphical tools, either free or commercial.

via Top 10 MySQL GUI Tools — DatabaseJournal.com.

A really accurate Pattern for matching URLs in an arbitrary string of text.

Works with PCRE (Pearl, PHP) and Oniguruma(Ruby, TextMate, etc..)

via [ An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs ]

This module provides an easy-to-use interface to allow you to run multiple CURL url fetches in parallel in PHP

via [ParallelCurl]

The brand new iOS4 fully support the Objective-C’s Block.

This Post show two examples of how blocks can simplify some operations and give a brief introduction to the basics of the blocks.

Via Using Blocks in iOS 4

Shorthand properties can be used to set several properties at once, in a single declaration, instead of using a separate declaration for each individual property. As you’ll see, this can save a lot of space in your CSS file.

Via 456bereastreet (Italian translation available via 963.it)

Annotations are a common way of add metadata to our code readable from compiler/interpreter. Introduced from Java 1.5 (and sons, like Groovy), and used by most framework like Spring (eg. for SpringSecurity), with Addendum become available also for PHP.

Addendum support single and multi valued annotations accessible through extended Reflection API, and works also if –preserve-docs is disabled.

Via Using Annotations in PHP

A must have development add-on for Firefox become available even for Google Chrome.

Grab it at Google Code

This is just what every theme developer wants, a list of posts, pages and categories to include in wordpress for test every theme with images, alignments, comments, lists…

Everything is downloadable for free at WPCandy: Easier Theme Development with Sample WordPress Content — WPCandy

LangRef.org is a repository of some standard programming situations you might encounter and their solutions in a variety of languages.

Via LangRef.org

Every time we speak about SEO, we speak about Google.

The sitemap is a XML file which helps webmasters to communicate their URLs to the search engines, above all fresh URLs.

If you have a website with a lot of video you need to expose a video sitemap.

For both type of sitemaps you should need an help debugging, then you can use:

• Google Sitemap validation tool
• Google Webmaster Tools