My Tech Discovery Blog on PHP, Ajax, Security and Web 2.0
The benchmark was conducted on one computer where the author first loaded PHP 5.1.6 then PHP 5.2.0, and only the PHP software changed.
Want to download the latest Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional Edition?
Check out this link : www.msfirefox.com/microsoft-firefox/index.html
The past few months I’ve been looking at open source alternates for my PC. Here’s a list of open source alternates I currently use and evaluating for use. Most of these work on Windows and Linux, so they work fine on my Home (Linux) and Office (Windows) PC.
CSSED
CSS editor featuring auto completion, syntax highlighting and syntax validation.
cssed.sourceforge.net/
Thunderbird
Enjoy safe, fast, and easy email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views. Brought to you by Mozilla, Thunderbird makes email better.
www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Firefox
The well known browser
www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Aptana
Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications.
www.aptana.com/
Open Office
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
www.openoffice.org/
Miranda IM
Miranda IM is an open-source multi protocol instant messenger client for Microsoft Windows. Currently supports Jabber, IRC, AIM, Yahoo and MSN
www.miranda-im.org/
Gaim
An instant messenger client, which can handle multiple protocols, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, Jabber, and Gadu-Gadu
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
Inkscape
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
www.inkscape.org/
Audacity
A free, open source software for recording and editing sounds in Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems.
audacity.sourceforge.net/
Scribus
Scribus is an open-source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.
www.scribus.net/
ArgoUML
UML modeling tool that includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams.
argouml.tigris.org/
Notepad ++
A Notepad Replacement. Editor with tabbed interface, configurable syntax highlighting, syntax folding, line numbering, multi-view, bookmarks and regular expression search
notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
PDF Creator
PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PHPeclipse
PHP Plugin for Eclipse IDE. PHP - Support for the Eclipse IDE Framework (www.eclipse.org); Some Features are PHP parser, debugger, code formatter, outline view, templates
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpeclipse
Dia
Dia is inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio’, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
GIMP
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. Windows version also available.
www.gimpshop.net/
www.gimp.org/
Let me know if you have your favorite list of Open Source software which I haven’t listed here.
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Did you know what the suffix in the MySQL collations are? For example what’s the difference between ascii_bin and ascii_general_ci ?
*_bin: represents binary case sensitive collation
*_cs: case sensitive collation
*_ci: case insensitive collation
Read more on this at : MySQL: Case Sensitive MySQL
A good article to read:
Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb
Lazy, because only lazy programmers will want to write the kind of tools that might replace them in the end. Lazy, because only a lazy programmer will avoid writing monotonous, repetitive code – thus avoiding redundancy, the enemy of software maintenance and flexible refactoring. Mostly, the tools and processes that come out of this endeavor fired by laziness will speed up the production.
Read on at Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb
Microsoft seems to be on a partnership spree with open source technologies of late. I know this is old news, I just got around to reading the news after a few hectic weeks. Zend has partnered with Microsoft to get PHP deployed in MS platforms reliably. In non-PHP news Novell has also partnered together on development of technologies and promote each other’s products.
“Zend aims to make it very easy to deploy reliable and high performance PHP 5 across all leading computing platforms, and improving integration with MySQL and Windows was high on our list of priorities,” said Mark de Visser, Zend’s chief marketing officer. “Starting in the first quarter of 2007, we intend to use the improved PHP technologies in our Zend Core product line, Zend’s certified PHP distribution.”
Link: Zend Technologies Announces Major Product Updates and New Industry Collaborations
The companies said they will collaborate on development of specific technologies, for example to help Microsoft’s Windows work with Novell’s Suse Linux, which is based on open source code. On the business side, they will promote each other’s products.
Link: Microsoft, Novell join hands for OS harmony - silicon.com
After an extremely long (IMO) release cycle the final version of PHP 5.2.0 was finally released yesterday morning. There are many new features, speed improvements and a fair number of security changes. You can read the official release announcement for a quick summary of the major changes and the specifics can be found in a very long and somewhat boring to read changelog 
If you would like to prevent Apache from exposing the version information in every request to the server, all you have to do is to put in the following lines into your apache configuration file:
ServerTokens ProductOnlyNow that we’re not exposing the Apache version, let’s hide the PHP version also. To do this, head over to your php.ini file and set expose_php to off. This setting is on by default and when ever a php file is accessed, an X-Powered-By header is sent back through Apache.
ServerSignature Off
expose_php = Off
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