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PDO, Where PHP is headed (PHP Data Objects)

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:50:40 +0000

PHP has typically been partnered along side of MySQL as a DBMS for a long time now. While MySQL is very powerful PHP can utilize many other DBMS's as well such as PostgresSQL, Oracle, and even Microsoft SQL. The problem is that connecting to and using the different databases means you have to load different drivers with different coding conventions. For a long time you couldn't use the same code with Microsoft SQL as you did with MySQL. Not until PDO.

JSON, the XML alternative

admin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:52:38 +0000

To really appreciate JSON its good to understand XML and why an alternative to XML exists. XML is a powerful robust markup language that makes many things that were formerly very difficult much more feesable. One of those things is data interchange between different systems. Data interchange between different systems has always been possible, however up until recent years it has been very difficult because of the lack of a unified protocol. These days most modern languages and DBMSs have XML parsing functions that allow you to grab the data that you need and search and filter your data with Xpath.

Smushit and increase performance

admin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:36:26 +0000

Smushit is an interesting web service that reduces the size of images by trimming off the "cruft" that is leftover in an image, but without reducing the quality of the image.

Firefox 3.1 Beta released!

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:02:43 +0000

The new firefox 3.1 has just been released. Touting its new "tracemonkey" javascript engine it is certainly one of the most powerful browsers on the market to date. I've been using it throughout the day and am extremely impressed. Sites that use javascript heavily are far less clunky. Firefox 3.1 is just another example in the web trends we are now seeing. Clearly there is no doubt that javascript is not a dead language. Far from it. It is, and is becoming more and more the web standard. Web sites are no longer exciting if they don't have javascript special effects and AJAX. We have yet to hear from Microsoft what IE is doing to keep up the pace with other browsers. Hopefully we will see something soon.

Google adsense on Yahoo

admin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:25:56 +0000

Android, the next wave

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:53:22 +0000

Photographs enhancing Video

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:31:31 +0000

Design Coding

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:48:53 +0000

Javascript in a new Light

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:12:25 +0000

Horatio Alger Widget

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:10:31 +0000