Archive - Feb 2010

February 28th

Opera’s Dragonfly Developer Console Takes Off

Dragonfly is Opera’s answer to Firebug. I’m sure browser vendors are sick of the comparisons, but Firebug was the first high-usage developer console and, in my opinion, it’s still the best.
That said, Dragonfly is very good. It offers a familiar set of features such as:

February 28th

connector

Package:
connector
Summary:
Execute MySQL prepared queries
Groups:
Databases, PHP 5
Author:
Muralikrishna Srinivasan
Description:
This class can be used to execute MySQL prepared queries.

Binary Tree Representation

Package:
Binary Tree Representation
Summary:
Display the nodes of a tree in a MySQL database
Groups:
Databases, HTML
Author:
vijay
Description:
This class can be used to display the nodes of a tree in a

February 27th

PHP MySQL list

Package:
PHP MySQL list
Summary:
Retrieve MySQL query results into arrays
Groups:
Databases
Author:
Pravin Sonawane
Description:
This is a simple class that can be used to retrieve MySQL query results into arrays.

ApPHP Calendar

Package:
ApPHP Calendar
Summary:
Display month calendars in HTML tables
Groups:
AJAX, HTML, PHP 5<

Missile Defence Logo Controversy, Is It Over Yet?

This week there has been a big buzz on Twitter about the U.S. Missile Defence Agency logo. The logo was designed by TMP Government, an agency dedicated to designing programs exclusively for government and contractors. Here’s the logo:

Microsoft Swats Spam Server Network

Here’s a great story for anyone suffering from inbox overload. 1.5 billion fewer spam emails will be sent today thanks to court action instigated by Microsoft.

SitePoint Podcast #50: jQuery: Novice to Ninja

Episode 50 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week, Kevin Yank (@sentience) is joined by Earle Castledine (@mrspeaker) and Craig Sharkie (@twalve), co-authors of SitePoint’s new book, jQuery: Novice to Ninja.
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Getting Gearman Up And Running On Ubuntu Karmic

Gearman is a lightweight, high-performance solution for farming out processing work from one machine to another. I’m currently looking at using Gearman as a key part of the architecture of a new web API that I’m doing the R&D for.

February 26th

MySQL-wrapper

Package:
MySQL-wrapper
Summary:
Execute MySQL queries from lists of parameters
Groups:
Databases, PHP 5
Author:
Guvenc Acarkan
Description:
This class can be used to execute MySQL queries from lists of