MIH SWAT

The Register recently published an article in which Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and CEO of Canonical, praises the beta of Microsoft’s new flagship operating system Windows 7. I’ve posted on this blog before how Ubuntu is making at best glacial progress on the desktop front, and at worst is stagnating completely. (more…)

Answer me quick: “What is the language of the web?”

Ok, how many of you answered with the name of a programming language? How many shouted out PHP, Ruby, Python or something similar? This is not that kind of post – I am not trying to start a religious war amongst the supporters of our beloved languages (not in this post at least…) (more…)

Almost every PHP developer is tracking the changes that will be present in the next release of the language.
For those who have not been tracking the changes, or who have lost track of them – I am here to expose to you everything that PHP 5.3.0 is going to make possible.

The 5.3 release of PHP is the most important release ever, and adds a lot of new features – leading to a delay in its release date. We will look at the most important feature enhancements from version 5.2 to version 5.3.
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Last year brought many changes to our team – and not all of these changes have been of a positive nature. Nevertheless there were positive outcomes, not the least of which has been changing our development platform of choice away from Microsoft technology.

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