Yeah.. Brad Stone, a New York Times reporter busted Fake Steve Jobs. FSJ is Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes. Now the fun has been spoiled..
More details about the new can be found… err where to start… it’s all over the web. Okay I guess here.
Firebug a great tool I discovered today! It is one of the best tool I have ever seen for web developers. After playing with it, I realized that this tool really deserves a platinum medal.
Firebug is an extension for the popular FireFox browser. It is used for testing web pages and easily trace the whole HTML, CSS, and Javascript connectivity or whatever it is called. It provides error checking, debugging, and even console command line.
J.D.Campbell posted three great articles about AJAX and PHP on phpBuilder. Part 1 talk about general overview about Ajax and DHTML and he gives an example to get more familiar with AJAX. Part 2 goes deeper to show how to access XML document using PHP and reading the data before processing it to javascript. However in part 3, it gets even more interesting when he uses POST method to read data rather than previously show, GET method.
Here are the links:
AJAX and PHP Part 1 – Dynamic HTML and Images
AJAX and PHP Part 2: XML Communication/Processing
AJAX and PHP Part 3 – Post vs. Get Requests
Enjoy…
The hype around web 2.0 social website has been since the start focusing around social networks such the giant Facebook.
A great new tutorial on Makebeta blog has been posted which will teach you how to use some of Facebook’s API to mash it up with your PHP enabled website. Here is what you going to learn from the tutorial:
Installing The Facebook Developer Application
Downloading The Facebook PHP Client Library
Creating Your Application
Hello Facebook! Example
FBML – Facebook Markup Language
Using the Facebook API
ActionscriptCheatSheet blog posted a new cheatsheet for Adobe AIR. You can download it here. “This is a seven page PDF that outlines all of the new packages and classes specific to Adobe AIR Beta 1”.
A great article written by Charlie Key in switch blog about connecting betweem Flex and PHP. It is a good article on how to send/recieve data between Flex and PHP to interact with database.
Amazon announced another new service for web developers.. Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS). Developers can now add a new payment service to their websites which is far more flexible than even PayPal service.
This service has no setup fees. The pricing is as follows:
For Transactions >= $10:
1.5% + $0.01 for Amazon Payments balance transfers
2.0% + $0.05 for bank account debits
2.9% + $0.30 for credit card
For Transactions < $10:
1.5% + $0.01 for Amazon Payments balance transfers
2.0% + $0.05 for bank account debits
5.0% + $0.05 for credit card
For Amazon Payments balance transfers < $0.05:
20% of the transaction amount, with a minimum fee of $0.0025
Qualified developers can apply for the following monthly volume discounts for credit card transactions:
2.5% + $0.30 per transaction for payment volume from $3K- $10K
2.2% + $0.30 per transaction for payment volume from $10K – $100K
1.9% + $0.30 per transaction for payment volume over $100K
This service blows out my 2CheckOut account which is not flexible at all and cost me around 50$ for setup. It
