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Is Microsoft buying Facebook a good thing for PHP?


Microsoft is buying a piece of Facebook. What do we all think this means for PHP since Facebook is one of the "web 2.0" leaders built on PHP? The way I see it, here are the options: Facebook continues on its merry path, taking only funding from Microsoft Facebook ...

Debug JavaScript in PHP or JSP Pages with Visual Studio 2008


Fresh from my IM, Kirk Allen Evans blog details how to debug javascript for any kind of page in Visual Studio 2008. This has already existed for awhile with the Firebug extension for debugging Javascript in Firefox. But it's nice to have choices. And it's cool if ...

PRADO framework for PHP similar to ASP.NET


For Drew, the .NET fanboy who is just dying to release his app without having to shell out the big bucks for .NET hosting.  The PRADO framework for PHP is almost like ASP.NET.   From the homepage: PRADO is a component-based and event-driven framework. Look at that example on the homepage.  That's ...

To PHP5 or not to PHP5


I consider myself an Open Source Developer but I very rarely develop for the open source community. I create apps for businesses, where I work, and some side projects. I share code with those I work with obviously, but generally not with the PHP community as a whole. ...

Yes you, Mr. ASP.NET developer can use a hosted open source Subversion source control for your projects also


For some reason, most .NET devs that I run into insist on using closed source applications for everything they do. I have no idea why. I guess it's a culture thing. That's why I love it when a mostly ASP.NET fellow starts using something open source, like ...

VS2005 Errors when creating .aspx pages that retrun XML or JSON


I kept getting this on a page that did nothing but reference a code behind. Validation(): Element 'html' occurs too few times. This is because VS2005 is performing HTML validation by default. Yuk. You can turn this off by going to: Tools --> Options --> Text Editor --> HTML --> Validation Uncheck ...

How to get a C# class to talk to Mysql in under 5 minutes


I had to access a Mysql database at work today using C# and .NET. Well, I didn't have to... but I wanted to... and I had some down time. I'm mainly a PHP guy, but C# is similar enough to C/C++ that I figured out what I needed ...

.Net MVC framework for winforms and ASP ?


One of my biggest complaints so far with working on projects in .NET is the total lack of community projects. It seems every worthwhile-looking solution that is out there is spearheaded by Microsoft and slapped into its “patterns and practices” section. The problem I have with this of ...

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