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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?”.

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.

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

As slayerment says on his blog, the steps are:
1. Replace esomething.com with MYsomething.com
2. Increase 10px font to at least 12-16px font
3. Change categories to tags
4. Change your news section to a blog
5. Change email a friend to RSS subscriptions
6. Change bookmark this to social network this
7. Change user account to user profile
8. Change crappy hard-coded HTML to Semantic HTML with CSS
9. It’s visitors not HITS!
11. Change esite.com?id=5235&sort=desc&useless=this &one%20more=still%20useless TO.. mysite.com/meaningful-title
12. Change custom built site to open source CMS

Want more detailed? Check it out here

How to get started with OpenID? A question I was asking my self lately. But recently Jarkko Laine posting an article which will save me alot of time searching on how to start using openID on a website.

So what is the myster about robots.txt ? Have you ever seen Googlebot browsing your website? Well, it is the way how search engines index your website. More about it here.

FlexCamp posted a statistic about number of flash player users over the web which is estimated to be around 2,320,000,000 installed on computers and growing by 8,000,000 per day.

Hurray!