Blog Posts
2009 Apr 20
Atlassian has made a name for itself with its java based opensource development tools. Confluence (an Intranet Wiki tool) and Jira (a bug tracker) are two of the companies Flagship products. Calling this their "Atlassian Stimulus Project", they are offering 5 user licenses for $5 each, and donating the proceeds to "Room to Read".
2009 Apr 9
Microsoft has been recently engaging in a number of open source projects. They have been working on enhancing performance, security and stability of PHP applications on Windows Server platforms.
2009 Mar 16
Confused with MySQL's charsets and collations? This week's MySQL University session is for you.
2009 Mar 14
Internet Explorer frequently causes problems for web designers and developers. In this post I will discuss some of the things you can do to test the old versions of Internet Explorer.
2009 Mar 12
New user registers, new set of tables is created in database. We see this database design quite often on phpfreaks forums. And each time we see it, we explain why it is wrong.
2009 Mar 6
Change the color of your prompts for different servers to avoid confusion and costly mistakes.
2009 Feb 27
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.9.
2009 Feb 18
Apart from usual bug fixes, the new version of ZF 1.7.5 contains an important security fix.
2009 Feb 13
This article talks about the behavior of MySQL when it comes to Updates on a numeric type when it's initialized to NULL.
2009 Jan 28
Allan Packer, head of MySQL Performance and Scalability Project talks about... MySQL's Performance and Scalability :)