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Feb. 2006   VOLUME 6 ISSUE 2  
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File Sharing News: Studios in trouble?
PHP Watch: Brainwashed by Ruby?
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PHP Watch: Brainwashed by Ruby?
Best teaching language... PayPal & PHP... AJAX email....

Is Ruby brainwashing us?

As you can see, for this example, Ruby and PHP are about equal in power of expressiveness, but I suspect that a Java or C programmer would comprehend the PHP one faster... Bruce Eckel, a well-known Java and Python expert, also feels that Ruby is over-hyped... "Zope is an excellent system and incredibly powerful, [but] I really just want to do a collection of simple things, and I don't want to relearn Zope every time I want to accomplish something... I'm going to find something drop-dead simple to solve my drop-dead simple problems. Probably PHP5..."

http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/?q=node/view/222

Best language for teaching Computer Science?

After Joel Spolsky's famous rant about how Java isn't hard enough to teach computer science, here's a fresh idea about the best teaching language...

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2006/01/which-language-for-teaching-computer.html

High Performance JavaScript Vector Graphics Library

This JavaScript VectorGraphics library provides graphics capabilities for JavaScript: functions to draw circles, ellipses (ovals), oblique lines, polylines and polygons (for instance triangles, rectangles) dynamically into a webpage. Usage of this Vector Graphics library should be easy even if you don't have JavaScript experience...

http://www.walterzorn.com/jsgraphics/jsgraphics_e.htm

PHP compilers

The number of implementations of PHP continue to rise and rise... I am excited about all these implementations. Most computationally intensive compiler benchmarks have shown a 5-10 times speedup over mod_php. Perhaps it is only a matter of time before we see a JIT compiler for PHP to Intel opcodes, built into mod_php...

http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/?q=node/view/223

Create dynamic images using PHP

This tutorial shows you how to create a little man holding a sign that displays various messages...

http://www.icemelon.com/tutorials/9/Dynamic_Images.htm

Sending Email with AJAX

AJAX has become ubiquitous, thanks to the fact that it gives web developers the ability to create applications that make http requests without reloading the page on which the application is running. It is also extremely versatile and powerful. This article, the first in a series, will start you on the way to creating an AJAX-based email application...

http://devarticles.com/c/a/HTML/Sending-email-with-AJAX-building-a-small-application/

Adding Paypal to your site with PHP

This tutorial is intended for PHP programmers of all levels, who wish to add Paypal functionality to their website. The programmer needs only a PHP enabled website and Paypal account...

http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-paypal.php

PDF Generation Using Only PHP

Yes, this is right... no external libraries, no complicated programming... just a simple approach on generating PDF documents using only pure, unadulterated PHP...

http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-PDFgen2.php

PHP Easter Egg!

Try adding the following string to the end of any PHP page... ?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 ... you'll see a cute little picture of a dog. Check it out.

http://www.neowin.net/?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42

PHP Popularity Scoreboard *

Dec. 2005 count of domains running PHP: 22,172,983 domains
Dec. 2005 count of IP addresses running PHP: 1,277,375 IP addresses

* Fresh data! :-)

Organizations using PHP

As usual, we'll wrap up with our traditional list of significant organizations using PHP.

CapitalOne, NASA, the W3C, HP, Google, Deutsche Bank, Redhat, Lycos, Cisco, Ericsson, Volvo, Motorola, SourceForge, Honda, Xoom, WinAmp, Sony Music, Vodafone, CBS, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, the US Army, UPI, the New York Yankees, Southwestern Bell, the San Diego Zoo, the Oakland Raiders, Audi, Subaru, VA Linux, Winamp, Duke University, Quicken, The Village Voice, Undernet, Access Micro, Columbus Dispatch, Indianapolis Star, Yahoo, Indiana University, Deutsche Telecomm, Bang & Olufsen, Siemens, Unilever, Philips, BMC, NTT, Air Canada, Lufthansa, Dialpad, BMC, Mitsubishi, MP3.com, the Arizona Republic, Deloitte Consulting, the US Navy, Nokia, Valero, Electronic Arts, Pfizer

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