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I am taking too long to close the New in PHP 5.4 series. PHP 5.4.3 is already released on 8th May 2012!!! Looking back, we are already familiar with the improvements in session handling, array syntax dereferencing and introduction of traits in PHP. Traits is an alternative approach for multiple inheritance. In another post, we Continue reading…
Joomla and Drupal are the most popular General Purpose CMS written in PHP. Like Drupal, Joomla tried to innovate by stretching its wings beyond the scope of a regular CMS. The separation of the Joomla Platform from Joomla CMS was an interesting step in this direction. However, Joomla 1.7 was just a stepping stone towards Continue reading…
Almost a year back, we read about the Vendor specific CSS properties. The vendor specific properties are included primarily to test new CSS features in the browsers. Once the feature is tested and stable, then a generic CSS property replaces these vendor specific properties. These days the CSS3 properties are being extensively tested across various Continue reading…
The languages like C++ and Python allow the maximum reusability of the code by allowing multiple inheritance of classes. Mixins is an alternative for increasing code re-usability in the languages that don’t support inheritance. Ruby and Ext JS 4 have Mixins to mix the functionality of one or more classes without using inheritance. We read about the introduction Continue reading…
A good Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the primary tool that facilitates the rapid development. An IDE provides features like syntax highlighting, code autocomplete, class reference and debugging etc. Most of the IDEs for Windows OS are not free to use and you are supposed to buy license to use them. CodeLobster PHP Edition is Continue reading…
For a long time, I had a category for third-party APIs but I hadn’t posted a many articles in it. Today, I am writing this post for the category. Today’s API is the Bulk SMS Gateway API. When you are choosing an SMS Gateway, the network support and the platform support become two key aspects. Continue reading…
With the advent of AJAX and web services, XML became the format for interchangeable data serialization. XML is simple and was already a W3C standard so there was not much resistance to its adoption for data interchange. But, sooner, programmers started realizing that the XML format doesn’t match the data model of many programming languages.
With Continue reading…
Continuing with the series of useful Web hosting terms, we will take a look at few more terms that are often used in relation to Web hosting.
Domain Name
Domain name is a memorable name for the numeric server IP addresses. It becomes the unique identity of the person/organization it represents. The domain name is mapped to Continue reading…
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