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Following on from yesterday’s Keynotes at the Open Source Singapore Pacific-Asia Conference (OSSPAC), both Sun and Oracle stepped up to the podium to talk about their efforts in the Open Source world with the message that the global economic crisis will be good for Open Source.
I had the pleasure of attending the Open Source Singapore Pacific-Asia COnference (or OSSPAC) held at the Grand Hyatt Singapore from Feb 16-18 2009. This inaugural event brings together the community businesses, developers government officials to experience first hand, the wide range of open systems and to promote the adoption of Open Source technologies across the entire Pacific-Asia region.
It would seems that Google is as fallible as the next company. Right at this moment (which is 31 Jan 2009, 3.15pm GMT) Google is labelling every site in their search result listing with a “This site may harm your computer”. And what irony, Google’s own Anti-Malware page is potentially harmful!
So, has Google been hacked, or is this the result of a careless mistake? Which ever way this goes, this is a serious serious problem for Google, since no one can go to any listed site, it’s going to impact the search referrals, and the traffic to these sites.
When we talk about PHP, MySQL is often the other word that goes hand-in-hand with it. But Oracle? 2 weeks ago, I had an opportunity to attend the Singapore’s PHP User Group monthly gathering, and the topic was on Oracle 11g and PHP.
Oracle is not often associated with PHP in my world, so the talk was a pretty decent overview for me on Oracle 11g. It covered what Oracles offers PHP developers, in terms of features, support etc. It gave sample codes, demostrations, and explains how connection pooling is done in Oracle.
Check out video of the session, presented by Blair Layton, Senior Manager - Developer Program, Oracle Asia Pacific.
Later this week I’ll be attending a talk on interoperability, organised by Microsoft. A friend of mine working at the local Microsoft office is organising the event. He was asking me to help spread the word about the event.
We got talking and from what he tells me about his job as an ‘Evangelist’, I get the distinct feeling that Microsoft is aiming to swing those companies with mixed platforms to using more MS-centric solutions, “because MS products enables technical interoperability out of the box with other vendors”.
That got me thinking about which is better, companies running different technology platforms versus those that focuses on a specific platform?
Coach Wei was wondering why ‘Cool Kids’ choose Ruby or PHP over Java? In his post, the power of Java is a “perfect fit for the areas where websites may need more than markups or scripting, such as middleware logic”, whereas PHP or Ruby are not ideal for building such middleware.
For example, PHP (and Ruby) are good for simple and lightweight implementations, but sites like Facebook which started with PHP, should be ideal for Java because of it’s growing complexity.
A buddy of mine, Chris, recently did a presentation about Microsoft’s efforts to embrace non-MS technology - like PHP. This presentation was held during the December meet-up of the Singapore PHP User Group.
His video presentation was about an hour long, and covered the following topics:
So, go ahead and watch the video…
Last year, on 31 March 2007, the good folks at Sydney turned off their lights for 1 hour - Earth Hour. By doing so, they’ve made it possible for each and every one of us to take an action on global warming.
Earth Hour is back for 2008 and now other cities around the world, like Toronto, Chicago and many more getting into the act. Are you?
Welcome to the first post of Ask About PHP, the site that’s dedicated to bringing PHP to the everyday person. I’m sure you can find many great resources on how to get started with PHP on the web and in print, but many of these resources assume you have some background in IT, or programming or understand the workings of the Internet in some way. Here, I’m going to try to keep it simple.
I hope, this site will one day be a useful place to guide those of you who wants to start to carve a corner of the ‘Great Web’ for yourself but you don’t know where to start. Websites of today are no longer just ‘pages’ of static information - with technology like PHP, you can have your own online shop, your own blog - your own whatever.
So why PHP? Well, it’s as good a place to start as any, and I like PHP - it’s useful for everyone who wants to start or operate their own website.
Anyway, do drop me a line to say hello at webbie@askaboutphp.com
Have a nice day!