This blog is officially dead. visit http://dotgeek.org if you are really bored.

try sqlite now

A very interesting article posted on the phparch blog explains how MySQL will be debudled from PHP5. SQLive will come as a bundled application.
On Jeremy's blog It came to my attention that
"If you use the PHP-MySQL extension to build an application and you distribute that commercially, you must buy a MySQL license. Or, if you commercially redistribute a PHP binary that is linked with MySQL (which is most often the case if it is bundled), then you need to buy a MySQL license."

Personally, and without having studied the legal mambo behind the MySql hybrid licensing, I am not very optimistic about these high fees. For instance, I found a bit fuzzy for MySQL to ask over 2000 Euro for a 5 days training course ...read more

With the help of a friend we have now a full php.net mirror at http://php.dotgeek.org enjoy !!

Yes. Guilty. I was the lead person behind the first PHP marathon . Frankly, I had one of the best week ends ever during the marathon. It was a lot of work to organise the event and as planned some of my assistants disappeared so I was left almost alone with the jabber server crashing et all.....read more......

There are a wealth of article on PHP vs ASP yet, no one was strong enough to face the crude reality: ASP sucks big time, Here's why....

by popular request here you go a funny and interesting definition of the real programmer...let's start :D

We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computerized television remote controls, 12 year old kids can blow Real Men out of the water playing Sony Play Stations and X-Boxs, and anyone can buy and even understand their very own Personal Computer. The Real Programmer is in danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by business-school students with Windows running drag and drop programming languages like Visual Basic! Some companies don't even understand the difference between some network-weenie with a Microsoft or Cisco certification and a real programmer...........

Inspired by the BusinessWeek ebiz 25 and Fortune's Young rich and powerfull (listing of the top 40 under 40) you can now check gurugeek's exclusive condensed listing of Net Guru's...

You can clearly spot a real programmer for the classic wannabe with one straight glance at his résumé if you see VB, Visual Basic mentioned......

When I read this news I just noted on my Ical to check in a month if Microsoft www server was still running on Linux...guess what....

Wow what a day!
With a good friend of mine we had the great idea to start up...

With some glamour LassoStudio claims to better, easier and cheaper (!) then PHP. I tried myself the lasso plug in for Adobe GoLive 6...

There are plenty of articles like this one from O'Reilly or this one from OS News reporting the recent bashing on how-why people aren't switching to a mac. I think that many did BUT in many cases, some people should stay with their beloved PC. Because.....