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Roshan posted in his blog some reasons of why PHP is a bad programming langauges in his oppinion. Unfortunately, I disagree in some of the points Roshan pointed out.

1) No need to define and declare variable
2) No Strict data conversion

I can’t see how these two points can make PHP a bad programming language. PHP just let the interpreter binds the variable to a type.

In my opinion, dynamic type binding provides a great deal of flexibility in programming. You don’t have to know the type of the data input to be able to process it. However, that flexibility advantage is not free. It will cost us the speed of detecting the type of the assigned value each time a new value is assign to the variable.

4) No namespaces

Namespace will be introduced in PHP 5.3.

6) Seldom use of Framework

It depends on the developers and the size of the project. There are many Frameworks available and for free. But when some, or many, developers decided not to use Framework in their projects I can’t see how it makes PHP a bad programming language. Like any other programming languages, you can always not use framework for any kind of project.

what i think, PHP is a incomplete programming language as well as a bad programming language which gives bad practise for the programmers.

It can’t be true. PHP is one of the famous programming languages (after Java) and one of the most used. Many companies and organizations prefer LAMP developers than any kinds of web developers. PHP is still growing and you can find almost any sample of codes available all over the web.

VCP-310 test focuses on the VMware product lines and as well on the ESX server. 640-802 judges a candidate’s abilities and skills needed to install, operate, as well as troubleshoot medium size company branch network. 70-290 and 70-291 enables you to learn about connectivity needs for example connecting branch offices and individual users in remote places to the company network. The MCSE on Windows Server 2003 is a requirement and basic criteria for 70-649.

Adobe has announced the BlazeDS beta release on Adobe labs. Now you can connect data between your Flash application and any other applications whether it is made by PHP, Ruby…etc.

Now, developers can easily connect to back-end distributed data, as well as push data in real-time to Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ applications, for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences.

Ajaxian‘s Ajax survey shows that Prototype is the most used framework for Javascript and Ajax. That’s really shocking, or at least for me, I never though Prototype is that famous. But still, Dojo is my favorite 🙂

Google announced the release of a new charting API that can be easily embedded within a webpage using the <IMG> HTML tag. You send the parameter for charting specification using HTTP request, and then Google will return the chart as a PNG images. Currently, Google provides these following charts:
• Line chart
• Scatter plot
• Bar chart
• Venn diagram
• Pie chart

To illisturate how easy it is to embed a chart to a webpage, here is an example taken from Google Chart faq:

<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?
chs=200x125
&amp;chd=s:helloWorld
&amp;cht=lc
&amp;chxt=x,y
&amp;chxl=0:|Mar|Apr|May|June|July|1:||50+Kb"
alt="Sample chart" />


The boundary of web applications is over and we are now pushing forward to the next killer applications era. More and more mash-ups applications are lighten up with new unpredictable features provided for free. Google is taking the upper hand to cast aside old convention of web design and use ready-on-the-shelf professional web applications.

AppJet, a new online IDE for developing client or server sided web applications. The IDE supports syntax highlighting, editing, reviewing, and publishing the code within the web browser.

More and more web-based applications are appearing in the market nowadays. One of the greatest is Buzzword, an online word processing program acquired lately by Adobe. Also, Bungee Labs, a beautiful on-demand web based application to develope web applications for free for non-commercial projects.

So there is a web gravity to mobilize computer applications and webitize it. Hmmmm, formula for web gravity = (Web Constant) X (2007) / (Windows + Mac) – (Flash + Ajax)^2 !!!

Warning: Spoiler!
Problem 1: A nerdy web developer is attempting to create an application. He is considering two platform options to work on. One of these options is making the application a web based application. He decided the Windows factor will be 1.3 and Mac to be 1.1, however, the Flash factor is 2.875 and Ajax factor is 3.2. Answer the followings:
a) What is the web gravity value?
b) Should he invest his application on the web?

Papervision 3D version 2.0 is now out in Alpha (pre-beta) version. According to Ralph Hauwert the alpha version is not yet optimized so expect a lot of updates to come.

The announcement came 6 day after celebrating the first anniversary for Papervision as an open source project. Papervision has been used by many Flash developers to create 3D interactive environment in Flash using Actionscript programming language. It even goes further, as it is being used to create 3D games for consoles such as Nintendo Wii!

A list of great programmer’s quotes collected from the web. I like this one:

The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers

Jeffrey Hammond, a senior analyst, writes about whether to choose Ajax or Flash for business web application. In addition, he shows some advantages and disadvantages of both technologies and when to choose the each one of them.

In selecting an RIA technology, application development professionals should choose AJAX when time-to-market is critical and updates are frequent. Experienced Web developers ramp up on AJAX quickly. AJAX also makes it easy to build RIA capabilities into existing apps with small, frequent releases. Finally, AJAX’s customization capabilities make it possible to tune client frameworks to meet specific application footprints; this makes AJAX the better solution for smaller RIA deployments and for deployments where performance is critical.

The much anticipated open-source IDE, Netbeans 6.0, has been released and available for download. The IDE Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris and easy to install. In addition, Netbeans supports many languages including Ruby.

The screencast is also available if you want to know more about it.

Graphing is an important tool for business. In fact, my first freelancing Flash program was about graphing. A new tutorial by W. Jason Gilmore in Developer.com about using PHP/SWF Charts system to create a chart/graph has been posted.

PHP/SWF supports a wide variety of charting formats, including bar, candlestick, 3D columns, pie, 3D pie, and advanced charts such as scatter, polar, and composites.

He starts off by showing how to install the charting system. After that he goes into coding and shows an example of using bar chart. He also shows how to use a 3D column chart which really looks amazing!