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That’s a really small cell phone… am I right?

Well no, the guy is tall. Actually, he is the world’s tallest man in Ukrain. That’s a regular size cell phone but it is really small for him. Look how hard for him to use a cell phone… poor guy.

Mary Brandel gives us an article on important skills needed on the market. “market for IT talent is hot, but only if you have the right skills” Mary says. The article is summerize into those 12 skills:

Machine learning
Mobilizing applications
Wireless networking
Human-computer interface
Project management
General networking skills
Network convergence technicians
Open-source programming
Business intelligence systems
Embedded security
Digital home technology integration
.Net, C #, C ++, Java — with an edge

Ever since SilverLight was announced by Microsoft, the Flash community was in Defcon-1 alert. The exciting new technologies that SilverLight has to offer to web developers announced the new era of Adobe-Microsoft competition. Shawn Wildermuth brought us a new great article which titled “10 Things You Should Know About Microsoft’s Silverlight“. Microsoft is on the move to conquer and dominate the world Rich Internet Application. So don’t miss out what it is going will offer.

Just a note for you guys out there…
I have done many changes on my last article which was about “What is Ajax?”. The article length changed from 1.5 pages on Microsoft Word to 3 pages. Most changes were done on advantages of Ajax. I did this because I am going to submit it for a non-profit magazine on my college. Therefore, if you got any comment to improve my writings don’t be shy to tell me.

You can access the article here.

Golgotha from Search-This asked 3 Flash master 5 question which are: “What do you see as Flash’s key asset(s)?”, “What do you think is Flash’s biggest weakness?”, “If you could change one thing about Flash what would it be?”, “Has Flash’s popularity peaked?” and “What will Flash look like in 3 years?”.

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

To read the tutorial click here.

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”.