Islam online has launched its virtual world branches in SecondLife. Islam online Ramadan Tent on an island in SecondLife gives visitors the feel and look of Ramadan with friendly environment design, decorated with Islamic architecture, adjacent to the Islamic world that includes mosques of course. Visitors will receive free gifts, including slogan for the site, and Braziers, and the Holy Month of Ramadan lanterns. “Inside the mosque, there are interactive copies of the Qur’an and the English translation of its meanings.”
More about this news available here. Another news about this in arabic here.
Ivan Uzunov posted on his blog Javascript web development top 10 sites. These include top 10 ajax applications, library, tutorial… etc.
Surfing Dzone I found out that Apress has 10 books for free download online. Here are the list of the books:
Practical Common Lisp
Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies
Beginning J2EE 1.4: From Novice to Professional
Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services
Pro JSP, Third Edition
Writing Perl Modules for CPAN
XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services With JSP and ASP
COM and .NET Interoperability
Programming VB .NET: A Guide For Experienced Programmers
A Programmer’s Introduction to PHP 4.0
Most of these books are out, but why not use it since it is free?!
Download these books from here
Now Adobe gives you a chance to publish your problem, solution, and example for the coming book Flex 3 Cookbook. By easily participating on the Flex cookbook beta, you will share your experiment with the community and have a chance to get it published with the book by O’Reilly.
Adobe announces the free Colin Moock’s tutorials for AS3.0. The tutorial will only cover basics of AS3.0. The tutorials will be a one full day event which will cover all the basics. However, this tutorial will be available on 10 cities around the world (Yea not even one on middle-east!). Hop in and register here if you live there or if you’re in the right city at the right time! This is a life time opportunity!
Great news Flex fellas out there… Adobe has partnered with Total Training to offer us a free online training for Flex 2. It totals of 17 hours of free Flex training online.
YEEEHA! Time to check it out here!
So you think there is no memory leak in java? Garbage Collector? Well, everything has its weakness. There is an easy way programmers in java can have a memory leak.
Did you say something?! Don’t believe me?! I’m not making fun of you! Okay then check out this post…
Finally, the long-awaited PHP developing environment for PHP is out there! Eclipse PDT is now available for download from Eclipse website. It contains the standard features Eclipse always has. From code completion and syntax highlighting to phpDoc and debugging. Grab your free Eclipse PDT version 1.0 from here.
This article is from chapter 3 of the book “Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional”. It gives you a basic idea on how Ajax works for PHP developers.
