Expert PHP and MySQL was published in 2010 by Wiley as part of the Wrox P2P series (Programmer to Programmer). It is a perfect book for advanced PHP and MySQL programmers who want to take their code to the next level.
myVBO – The Virtual Business Office
MyVBO is a business application created by people who know business. It brings all your business needs into one place, including purchasing, stock quotes, Quickbooks, and social media.
A method called ‘delete’ in Flex and AS3
You are in for a headache if you have try to call a method or create a member variable with the name of a reserved word in Actionscript. It can lead to such fun situations as having variables called: insert; update; deleteSomething. Because calling the third variable “delete” may be logical but it is a reserved word so that is out of the question. It gets hairier when you don’t necessarily have control over the object format (such is often the case with remote calls). I ran into this today when trying to call the “node_delete” (or “node.delete”) method in Drupal via Services and AMFPHP. This is frustrating so I’m going to show two situations where you could run into this problem and how I fixed them.
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5 things about PHP 5.3 that make me smile
Rest assured. Soon I will be writing “Things about PHP 5.3 that make me cringe” but for now I sing the praises of the latest release of PHP that that came out today. I’ve been playing with the new release for months and there are indeed many good things about it and many of them have been a long time coming.
The other day I was reading the release notes and I couldn’t help but smile.
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Drop shadow tricks in Flex
Every display markup language has its frustrating moments. Adobe Flex isn’t any exception. I ran into a little trouble a while back when trying to put a drop shadow on a HBox component. Here is the effect that I wanted to achieve:
Flex form with drop shadow header