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The End of the Line for PHP4: At some point every project has to decide when legacy versions will no longer be supported. This is true of open source projects as well--as users of PHP4 are about to find out. The PHP development team announced last Friday that "support for PHP 4 will continue until...; Tags: Web Technology; Blog posts 2007-07-19
End of the line for PHP 4: End of the line for PHP 4Give me something like .NET's Web forms and I will switch back to PHPPHP 4 was my preferred dev platform until .NET arrived with WebForms which made development ten times easier. I still use PHP 4 heavily but given a choice I prefer to...; Tags: Scripting languages, PHP, PHP 4, PHP5; Discussion threads 2007-07-17
Red Hat Linux 5 Beta gets Xen'd. But support for php5 rates too!: If you become the subject of controversy, then you get all the glory too. In hindsight, perhaps the folks at XenSource should be happy about the little soap opera that recently bubbled up around a certain Red Hat senior executive's opinion that XenSource's open source virtualization solution isn't ready...; Tags: Red Hat Inc., Red Hat Enterprise Linux, PHP5; Blog posts 2006-09-12

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PHP closes book on PHP 4; Delivers final patch: PHP closes book on PHP 4; Delivers final patchPHP5 should at least get a mentionPHP4 is being end-of-life'd and everyone should move to PHP5. It would be nice if this article at least *mentioned* this, instead of implying PHP itself is dead.Of course no mention of PHP 5That wouldn't...; Tags: Scripting languages, PHP4, PHP, PHP 4, PHP 5; Discussion threads 2008-01-04
phpDesigner 2008 (exe): phpDesigner 2008 is an IDE for PHP. Boost the process of editing, analyzing, debugging and publishing websites powered by PHP and other web languages! Designed to boost your productivity and simplify complex coding projects through intelligent set of editing tools that speed up your development! In phpDesigner 2008 you can...; Tags: PHP, Evaluation, phpDesigner 2008, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2007-11-09

Learning from failure: Another list of seven, this one Derek Silver's 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails drew some fascinating comments from its audience over at O'Reilly's. The story itself was about his failure to rewrite an estimated 90,000 lines of PHP...; Tags: Web, Accounting, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Web Site, Programmer, Scripting Languages, Ruby On Rails, Web Site Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2007-10-05
Server2Go (zip): Server2Go allows you to create a working Web site or PHP application on a CD-ROM. Using a Web browser, a user can run PHP programs as well as view HTML files on the CD-ROM. Server2Go supports PHP5.1, Perl, SQLite, and MySQL. Version 1.4 fixed bugs under Windows 98, bug in...; Tags: Perl, PHP, Server2Go, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development; Software downloads 2007-07-02
LAMP On Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Server Edition: LAMP On Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Server EditionGUI installInstalling LAMP on your existing Ubuntu Desktop.1. Open Synaptic2. Select "Edit" -> "Mark Packages by Task"3. Select "LAMP Server"4. Click "OK"5. Click "Apply"Via the LiveCDYes, it's pretty straight forward via het live cd, but not as easy as it is via the...; Tags: Desktops, LAMP Server, Ubuntu, server, GUI, command line, desktop; Discussion threads 2007-05-15
Google Base API released: Google Base shows off its new API to developers who may want to hook into the service through applications. As Philipp Lenssen says, "Google Base is starting to get interesting... with the API, it's certainly looking much more like an online database than before." I would agree with...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Base, API; Blog posts 2006-08-23
PHPWScite (exe): PHPWScite is an optimized development environment for PHP. The package contains the latest versions of PHP4, PHP5 and other tools. The Editor is able to handle multiple files, syntax highlighting, code folding, debugging, inline help, and auto-completion.; Tags: PHPWScite, Editor, Productivity, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development; Software downloads 2005-12-21
Microsoft updates Windows Vista test code: Microsoft updates Windows Vista test codeThey keep tryin' to put lipstick on this pig.But this is really borring. Three years late and striped of most of the new freatures. Looks like the Windows sheep won't have much to look forward to.Seriously, why is this new?Why is an update to a...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Tablets, game console, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft updates Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2005-10-17
Second-tier Linux makers release new products: Second-tier Linux makers release new productsSecond-tier Linux makers release new productsMore like second-rate linux still doesn't offer anything of value. Still not compatible with each other even tho they claim they follow the supposed standards. No new applications, no new paradigms, no new nothing. Just a few...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Gnome version, Second-tier Linux, Linux, Second-tier Linux maker, LTSP, GNOME; Discussion threads 2005-10-13
ByteRun Protector for PHP (zip): Protect your PHP scripts from being pirated. Convert your PHP scripts to unreadable but still executable form. The program supports PHP4 and PHP5 and offers 100% secure bytecode protection. Works under Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. Has optional domain lock and optional time expiration.; Tags: PHP, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2005-08-04
XyEdit (exe): With XyEdit you can edit all files that contain text, but it is mainly meant as a program to edit PHP, PHP3, PHP4, PHP5, ASP, CSS, XML, JS, HTML, and HTM files used for Web development. The interface is very easy to understand, as it looks a lot like Microsoft's...; Tags: CSS, Scripting Languages, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2005-06-20
UNAK-CMS (tgz): SQLite-based site management and CMS system UNAK is installed and works out of the box on PHP5 enabled servers. It can also use PHP4 and a MySQL backend. The system is designed for WYSIWYG content editing and has advanced multi-language support.; Tags: Content Management, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2004-10-22
Constructioner Light Edition (zip): Content Management Software provides a ready-to-use backoffice to create and administrate database-connected Web sites within a WYSIWYG Content Management System. Web Designer will be able to build up Web applications even without any programming skills. Content Manager will be able to administrate Web sites without special trainings. Advanced Coders will...; Tags: Web, Environment, PHP, Programming, Content Management System, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Scripting Languages, Marketing, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2004-10-06