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Although Userland have been kind enough to let me stay on, I have decided it might be wiser to self-host this site. So I intend to move to http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/
I'm back, with a very interesting topic too!
The most painful kind of generosity are the promises you cannot fulfill. The people who were once so grateful then turn on you, and your self-esteem is sure to take a beating.
PDO is a new database API that will be part of the official PHP 5.1 release. AFAIK, PDO will not be a full-fledged database abstraction library, but will provide a standard database API for PHP.
Continuing my belief that the best way to learn the fine art of programming is to learn from your better looking neighbours, here's a very interesting article on using exceptions in Java that can be applied to PHP5.
It's interesting to see that Malaysia is one of the few countries where IIS is dominant. But it's not a big surprise because Microsoft is very strongly entrenched in the Malaysian IT mindset, definitely more so than in Europe or US. And although i'm a long-time IIS supporter, these figures have made me realize that we don't really care either way. A rough mental count tells me that 30% of our websites are on IIS, and 70% on Apache.
Keith Devens says:
There's a debate on web services in the .NET world. Datasets are XML objects that contain recordset information. You can perform various operations on them (such as insert/delete/update) and they can be replicated back to the host database. Developers are using DataSets for data exchange in web services. MSDN has a good article on this. Is this a good idea?
You cannot help but like someone like Greg who is honest and humble:
A great presentation by Ilia Alshanetsky from the International PHP Conference 2004. The only thing I would like to point out is that MMCache is still being actively developed, as evidenced by the CVS activity at sourceforge.
Apparently PHP5 RC3 is going to be the last release candidate. This is supposed to be coming out at the end of this week, so PHP5 will probably be released next month.