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Here is the full text of the 'Appeal to the EU Council' made yesterday by Linus Torvalds, Michael Widenius, and Rasmus Lerdorf, in an attempt to persuade the European Union to exclude software from patentability and thereby, as they put it, 'gain a major competitive advantage in the in...
In 2002, my company met an unexpected crossroad that led us down a very ambitious path. Our mission was to create a new middleware platform that also included a complete development and framework environment. And all of it had to operate within a browser.
With PHP 5 around the corner, many are asking, 'Is PHP evolutionary or revolutionary?' This article tries to answer this question. Many readers might have already read about PHP 5 or heard of its numerous new features. As the current PHP 5 code base is already extremely stable, s...
The first part of my article showed how to use MySQL to create a database for a little polling application. This second part deals with the PHP part of the equation and uses the database to generate dynamic Web pages that can display polls from the database and show current poll result...
This article is about designing a simple database with MySQL and getting PHP to use the database. Hopefully, this will provide enough information to get anyone a good start towards developing more complicated PHP/MySQL Web sites.