Socket Programming With PHP

Read this nice article about socket programming in PHP. PHP is not just a scripting language to conenct to db or retrieve and insert data in html .. it has many more features... ...



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Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial (aka. How Rake turned me into an alchoholic)

In this article we're going to discover why Rake was created, and how it can help our Rails applications. By the end you should be able to write your own tasks, and learn how to get ***** drunk using rake in no less then three steps.



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Google Plans Video Identification Test For YouTube Next Month

Google confirmed Tuesday that it is about to begin testing video identification software on its YouTube and Google Video sites to identify copyrighted videos that users have uploaded without the copyright holder's consent.



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PHP 6 sneak peak

While most web hosts are still in the PHP 4 era, the PHP developers are already planning and working on PHP 6. Lets have a look at what's been keeping them busy.

Read full article at Jeroen van der Meer's website

Three State Solution

How often do we ignore these states as a web developer...

Extract from an excellent book "Getting Real" by 37Signals

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch09_Three_State_Solution.php

Useful plugins for RoR

Few useful plugins for RoR

FileColumn: A plugin by Sebastian Kanthak to handle file upload functionality. Contains view helpers. Allows to implement file upload easily.
To install:
$ ruby script/plugin install http://opensvn.csie.org/rails_file_column/plugins/file_column/trunk/

Client Side Validation: Validation Reflection plugin
http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/client_side_validation

Streamlined:
Streamlined is a framework, on top of Rails, that allows you to quickly generate interfaces for your ActiveRecord models. It started as a way to generate Administrative backends, but has become more general purpose over time.
http://www.streamlinedframework.org/

The future of web application

Where do you think the future of the web application lies in ??

a. Ruby On Rails
b. Flex
c. Java
e. Flash/ActionScript
f. PHP