I'd love to collect a small list of sites that cater to beginning web developers like this, could anyone think of a few more?

I'm pleasantly surprised to see this on the front page. It's a very basic site with very basic concepts. I'm happy to see HN honoring the hard work of a single individual. I used to enjoy sites like Techcrunch and Mashable for this very reason, but they've grown up and disregard the little guys now.

this is pretty awesome! i wish i'd read the pagination tutorial about a year and a half ago...

A couple of months ago, I bought the full link shortener package from Codular, but didn't get any automatic confirmation email or the actual product. A quick email to the maintainer, and he forwarded me a copy in under 10 minutes, no questions asked. Stand-up guy and a great product to boot. I always love seeing a new article from Codular pop up in my RSS reader.

Wow, these types of 'learn programming / learn web' sites are popping up everywhere!

Jesus, that JSON article is unreal. Probably the best I've read all year.

Well, you are the author after all...

Don't you have any shame?

Hopefully, the "best I've read all year" implies he was speaking rather tongue-in-cheek (since, you know, new year and all).

I really like this. I'm more of a middleware guy but I need to know these things for my job. I like how things are written: minimal fluff and a lot of "this is an approach on how to do X".

Love it!

Writer, if you want some contribution, I've got some ideas and drafts down as I was writing some of this for my own blog.

Feel free, email contact [at] codular [dot] com with your ideas. :)

A bit confused with some tutorials going PHP, others going MySQL, the rest JavaScript.

Web development isn't just one language/tool.

If this is a set of tutorials for new developers, it needs to be labeled

New developers would do themselves a big favor by staying out from PHP. (Saying this as a former PHP coder.)

Articles are very well written! Thumbs up Ben! :D

I think you're mistaken. Ben wrote one article, Michael wrote the others, except for the CodeIgniter one.

maybe you can categorize the articles a bit: client / server / database or so ...

Good stuff.