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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.

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Having been brought up developing PHP using templating systems like Smarty, I’m very used to segmenting my page elements into reusable block, and swapping out blocks of HTML codes, nesting blocks of code within other blocks and so on.

Trying my hands at using CodeIgniter, one of the first obstacles I had was how to organize my ‘blocks’ on a page. Without knowing any better, I thought I had to reiterate the same view calls in every function within the controller, making the controller codes very messy.

It turns out that CodeIgniter allows us to nest views within views, and that has made things a lot simplier for me.

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It’s been a month since Google pushed out their Google Chrome browser. In that short time, the initial buzz about the shiny new browser has slowly being taken over by reports of crashes and security flaws.

NetApplications also just released a report that the market share for Google Chrome since the launch has dipped but holding steady at 0.7%.

Does this put a kink in the Google world domination plan? Probably not, it’s more like a minor setback.

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