Month: February 2006

Gtalkr

Alessandro Crugnola general , , ,

Anybody using Gmail? How about Google Talk?
If so, 2Entwine has created a truely awsome Flash App called Gtalkr!! Right now it is Beta 2.0.0.67, but in my opinion a very promising RIA (Rich Internet Application).

  • Google Talk contact information
  • Contact presence changes
  • Gtalkr Notifier integration
  • Drag and drop support

It lists friends, your Gmail Account, a Flickr slideshow, a YouTube component, and much more…
Still not enough? Well Gtalkr also has a blog, Everything Gtalkr that will keep you up to date!!
Still want more? Well it even supports extensions!! A combination of XML and Flash…”you’ll need to create the Flash file that Gtalkr will load.”
I see a lot of potential in this application and fresh view on customization that other portal technologies lack….
https://gtalkr.com/

Debugging PHP with XDebug

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In these days, working with PHP after a lot of time, I’ve installed this cool tool for debugging PHP (it supports both PHP 4 and 5).
XDebug is really useful for debugging PHP, which is usually not really easy to debug, and also easy to install.
It provides a lot of valuable debug informations, for example a full traceback for errors, profilig with memory and CPU usage, profiling functions , etc..
I really suggest to take a look at it!
Both Windows and Linux versions are available for download
http://www.xdebug.org

PHP5: a big failure ?

Alessandro Crugnola general, php , ,

What’s happening ?
PHP 5 has been presented as a revolution, a lot of new features have been added and a lot of projects have been made. But only a small group of hosters seem interested in supporting PHP 5 on their web servers. It is not so useful to have a beautiful programming language to use if we can’t apply it to production environments.
But what about the causes ? Maybe they are related to the fact that Zend decided to support both PHP 4 and 5 separately, allowing hoster to choose which version to compile on their webservers, or maybe to the fact that PHP 5 is not fully compatible with the older versions, and there are some security-related bugs that increase our doubts.
I’m using a lot PHP 5 in production environments, without any problem. It is quite fast and reliable, and has got a lot of useful features that adapt perfectly to enterprise development. We MUST use PHP 5 to help it growing until it become the standard …
To conclude I’d like to inform the ones who don’t know it, that PHP team is working on the sixth version (yes … PHP 6 … and it is available for download at snaps.php.net) that will add to the language a lot of interesting features, such as native support to Unicode.
I hope there will be only one (working) version of PHP in the future …

SWF server side compiler with MTASC

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I never thought at this before but it was so obvious!! …put the mtasc binary on remote server and let it create swf on the fly!
HOSHI Tetsuya put toghether a server side swf compiler using mtasc (http://hossy.net, Everything is unreadable… just click on ENTER 🙂 ).
He also published the source code (php files): http://hossy.net/sssc.zip
http://hossy.net/

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 to public

Alessandro Crugnola general , ,

Microsoft has just released Internet Explorer 7 beta for the public.
For Firefox and Opera users its new features are very familiar, such as the tabbed browsing, quick tabs (a very handly plugin I use in Firefox and which lets to see thumbinails of all the opened borwser pages), zoom and the quick search box…
For the full feature list please read more on Microsoft site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/featuretable.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx