For those out there learning php for the first time or want to learn it, this article might motivate you on learning php. Even though I honestly LOVE php, some of these points never crossed my mind before. I loved php that made me learn it, including mySQL, in just 1 week in 11th grade!
Anyway, here is an article listing out the 10 points on reasons to love php.
An interview (more likely a discussion) with Adobe’s technical evangelist, James Ward, talking about the upcoming Flex 3 product. The feature that took my attention is Persistent Framework Cache which can lower the size of the application ALOT because of available caches from previous visited Flex application. Another great feature Ward stated is the memory and performance profiler which allows the developer to know exactly the memory leak and performance bottleneck.
Flex 3 SDK will be available for free under MPL license. And one of their goals is to make Flex 3 SDK will be fully open source upon the release of Flex 3. Keep up the good work Adobe! Make us proud!
Read the discussion..
Regardless of what sort of Content Management System or Web application framework you might use to develop your Web site, there are some basics you should cover. A sophisticated user interface and rich content is great to have, but before you get to that, you should provide the basic files that users anticipate finding and that tell both humans and machines what your site does.
Read more about this article here.
Music about Mac vs PC… this is superb!
As predicted, Adobe now is taking a wider deployment of rich content lured by the competition of Microsoft. The battle field, if I may say, is starting to heat up while flash players installs is closing in to 3 billion. Ted Patrick announced the next version of flash player (codename Astro) is going to be shown off at MAX 2007 Chicago. More details is posted in Ted’s post.
Need to know more about Ajax?
Want an example on using Ajax? (using ColdFusion)
If yes, then here is the article in Ajax World Magazine.
I also posted a few weeks ago about ajax here.
SWX gone from alpha to beta to release candidate, and now to version 1.0, announced yesterday on Aral Balkan’s blog.
More information about SWX can be found in http://swxformat.org.
Microsoft announced the release to the Web (RTW) Silverlight 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web. In addition, Microsoft will work with Novell Inc. to deliver Silverlight support for Linux, called Moonlight, and based on the project started on mono-project.com.
SilverLight is an application to create rich internet applications that competes Flash/Flex. Microsoft can only hope to catch us with Flash Player penetration.
From PHP Classes blog: Everybody wants to squeeze as much performance of their Web applications as possible. Usually this requires skilled professionals to achieve. Fortunately, several performance evaluation tools are now available to make Web site performance tuning a much easier task.
This post discusses tools like YSlow and other techniques to tune your Web servers performance, as well the results of using such tools and techniques in a busy site like PHPClasses. Anyway, here is the post.
Here’s the main topic will be discussed:
– The browser side also matters
– YSlow 13 optimization rules
– Too much AJAX and external Javascript may kill your page performance
– Compacting Javascript files
– Minimization versus HTTP compression
– Lighttpd: a fast HTTP server worth your attention
– So, how does the PHPClasses site perform?
– A much faster site for premium subscribers
– Free premium subscription trials
– Your performance rules
