Learning PHP for an upcoming project, my expectations of the language are finally meeting the real world deal. After almost two years of Ruby development, this seems like a backwards move, but I have to admit that PHP has a well established community, offering a lot of content. CompSci.ca runs on PHP technology – Forums, [...]
I find the concept of running a webserver from a flash drive to be intriguenly nifty. XAMPP will start up a LAMP server (it is cross-platformed with Windows and OSX versions as well), throw in phpMyAdmin along with other tools, and serve up your application right from the USB port.
Two main applications for this on [...]
The recent fiasco with AOL has the net buzzing about the privacy of your data and actions on the internet. The “What have you searched for?” is a tricky question, as a single search engine query is meaningless – but complete phychological (and even personal) profiles could be build from a set of searches identified [...]