Archive for October, 2008

Oracle 11g and PHP

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 [...]

Posted on October 30, 2008 at 11:51 am by Eldee · Permalink · 3 Comments
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CodeIgniter: Organizing views simply

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 [...]

Posted on October 22, 2008 at 4:20 pm by Eldee · Permalink · 19 Comments
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Google Chrome: One month later

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 [...]

Posted on October 3, 2008 at 4:32 pm by Eldee · Permalink · Leave a comment
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