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A new site coming for PHP – a Preview

Posted on January 27, 2012 by daleV

If you’re a PHP Developer, you are familiar with the PHP web site, www.php.net.  This site has looked the same, for I don’t know how long, but for at least, six or seven years, if not longer.  The old pastel … Continue reading →

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NetBeans 7.1 Review

Posted on January 21, 2012 by daleV

One of outcomes of switching jobs is you lose some of your favorite tools.  For me that was Zend Studio.  Having done PHP development full time for many years, Zend Studio had become my IDE of choice. Since Zend Studio … Continue reading →

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IT Industry Trends for 2011

Posted on October 27, 2011 by daleV

About this time, every six months, or so, I like to look at the latest IT trends compared to six months, and a year previous, to see what’s going on in the industry. What do the latest stats show? Operating … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Removes Chrome

Posted on October 1, 2011 by daleV

Back in Feb, Google proved by setting up about 100 “synthetic queries and unique web sites,” that Microsoft was stealing their search results. They reported this in this article, and in their blog. Microsoft had a weasel word response denying … Continue reading →

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Windows Text Editors

Posted on September 10, 2011 by daleV

I’m always looking for new text editors. I’m in a perpetual search for the perfect text editor, the shangri-la of text editors, and for some reason or another, at the end of four or five months, I always for one … Continue reading →

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