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Quick Notes On Google Adsense Sidebar Widget for Wordpress

In my earlier post, I contributed my updated version to Google Adsense Sidebar Widget on Wordpress based onĀ  previous work by Mike Smullin. I received some comments about errors in implementing the widget. This weekend, as I mentioned earlier, I decided to take further investigation to know the root cause of the malfunction.
I compared two [...]

Querying XML Documents, Revisiting Existing Languages and Methodologies

These days in the web 2.0 era, we are using XML extensively. We use xml on our browser, to represent the hypertext. We use xml in our most recent MS Word documents. We use XML in web services. We use XML in our AJAX applications. To the bigger scale, the enterprise, we also use XML [...]

A Glimpse of Evolving Zend Framework 1.5

Fellow developers may have noted that Zend released their Zend Framework 1.5 (including the 1.5.1 branch) last March. As a person who was away from ZF development milestone for a while (and when i was back i noticed bunches of emails in the mailing list), it’s interesting for me to see the changes made in [...]

PHP 4.4.8 Release: PHP 4 End of Life and PHP 5 Future Forecast

Finally PHP 4 is approaching its end of life. With the upcoming PHP 4.4.8 release, development on PHP 4 will be officially stopped. No more release will be shipped to end user. This is not very fresh news since this has been announced on php.net since July 2007.
Conquering Reluctancy To Upgrade

As open source project, PHP [...]

7 Reasons To Use Jquery As The Javascript Framework In Your Web 2.0 Apps

Javascript. Is it nightmare? I’m not a seasoned javascript developer myself but I can say that it’s sometimes nightmare especially when dealing with tedious DOM selection and cross browser compatibility workaround.
Good news is the javascript gurus out there always try to find new methods and best practices in dealing with javascript. Libraries and frameworks are [...]

Zend Framework 1.0, First Stable Release For Your Commercial And Enterprise PHP Web Apps

July 1st, 2007 is a monumental day for Zend and their developers. It’s the day when Zend Framework 1.0, the first stable version of the framework, was released to public. What’s with the fuss?
It’s important for a business entity (eg. company) to make sure the business process run smoothly and profitable during the [...]

The GPL Myth: Opensource Is Free Of Charge

This is the first part of an article duo about open source. This article is inspired by recent policy stipulated by the Joomla team that all joomla modules and components must comply GPL license, the license Joomla has been using since the announcement of its first official release in 2005.
Personal Impressum
In 2004, I attended a [...]


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