Ferry Boender
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PHP 5
PHP 5 has been released. New features: * The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features. * XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/). * A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as […]
Sun’s Looking Glass
Sun’s Looking Glass looks pretty awesome. (Click the screenhots and the select different ‘views’ from the dropdown)
NL withdraws software patents vote
“The Dutch Parliament has decided to direct Minister Brinkhorst and Secretary of State van Gennip (Economic Affairs) to withdraw the Dutch vote in support of the Council of Ministers’ text for the Directive on Software Patents. This is the first time in the history of the EU that such a course of action has been […]
Programming Languages history poster
“For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages! O’Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages (PDF), which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.” Here’s the Full […]
Beauty, taste and good design
Paul Graham talks about how good programming design relates to beauty and therefor taste. In the article he compares many different fields like mathmatics, physics and art with program design. He talks about what they have in common and why some of it works and some of it doesn’t. Interesting ‘programming is art’ article.
Mini keyboards
Some years ago me and some co-workers aquired a cheap mini keyboard through Benjamin. It’s a great keyboard and a whole lot smaller than normale keyboard since it doesn’t have that completely useless space inbetween the normal keys and the function keys and it’s missing the never-used numeric pad. Its dimensions are only 32x16cm and […]
Software patents in the EU
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XSLT 2.0 III
Yes! Part 3 of the excerpt on the XSLT 2.0 book.
RPM Packages
DevChannel has a link to an article on Linux Magazine about RPM package creation. The article is more of a plug for the package format than an unbiased introduction. But it’s interesting non the less. I’ve been working on a new build enviroment which will also support creating RPM’s, so this article was posted at […]
XSLT 2.0 II
Part two of the XSLT excerpt from the book “XSLT 2.0 Web Development” is out on DevChannel.
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