Monthly Archives: February 2010

Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” is coming!

Posted on February 28, 2010 by daleV

The next release of Ubuntu, version 10.04, “Lucid Lynx” is set for April 29, 2010. The Alpha 3 version is out, and there is much buzz about what to expect from the next release. This release is set for long … Continue reading →

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Passing Variables – The PHP $_SESSION array

Posted on February 27, 2010 by daleV

The problem of storing user information while the user is accessing the web site is solved with sessions in PHP. Essentially, when the user logs into a web site and enters some information, the server assigns the user a 32 … Continue reading →

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Session Varaibles – Moving inside your Application – An introduction

Posted on February 27, 2010 by daleV

Our focus for this series of postings has been on the problems associated with getting information from one page to another in a stateless, Internet environment, where nothing is saved from one web page to the next. How do we … Continue reading →

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Opera and Firefox release new Browser Versions – a Review

Posted on February 12, 2010 by daleV

Opera has just released version 10.10, today, and Firefox recently released version 3.6. Currently of the popular browsers, Chrome is the fastest, followed very, very closely by Opera, and Safari, with Firefox coming before Internet Explorer, but way back from … Continue reading →

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Passing Variables – PHP Cookies

Posted on February 6, 2010 by daleV

Before we set some cookies, let’s look at the flow of messages and responses between your computer, and the server, where the web pages are stored. When you click on a link to go to a web site, your browser … Continue reading →

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