One would think the online meeting market is already fairly saturated. There are even services, such as Adobe Connect, that allow you to have free online meetings for small number of people. However, Callwave has released a new offering called Fuze Meeting which raises the bar. Read the rest of this entry »
(Today’s blog is a combination of our excitement for the forthcoming Star Trek movie and our not-so-much excitement for Oracle buying Sun.)
Captain’s Log Stardate: -313698.7183853373
Received a message from Starfleet Command today stating that the Oracle have gained control of the Sun system for $7.4B. While our Science Officer has concluded that this is “logical, simply logical” and this does not seem to be a hostile takeover of the Sun system, one must question the intentions of the Oracle. Read the rest of this entry »
As you are probably aware, today is April 1st a.k.a. April Fools Day. A day when people try to make fools of other people. If you weren’t aware or forgot, you may have already been tricked into believing or doing something crazy and didn’t even realize it. Techie types are stereotyped as being boring, straight-laced, and basically no fun. Today is a day to show a different side. And who else to start the day off than Zend. Read the rest of this entry »
If you are a Windows user, please read this and take action immediately before the worm is activated on April 1, 2009. There is a computer worm called Conficker that could already be on your PC and ready to cause havoc on April 1st. This is not an April Fools joke! This is a real threat.
While browsing through the PHP documentation, I came across some very useful new functions available in PHP 5.3.0 for working with dates and times. Read the rest of this entry »
Being a web programming company, we feel we would be remiss in our duties (and honor) if we did not celebrate Ada Lovelace Day. Read the rest of this entry »
I recently had a need (not a fleeting need but a resolute need…PotC reference) to create a page containing some tabs and wanted to use Dojo for the job. Dojo worked well for this application. However, Dojo’s TabContainer displays tabs starting at the left of the container. I wanted the tabs to align to the right side of the container. Read the rest of this entry »
iDimensionz made version 1.5.2 of the Zend Framework available to all of its hosting customers today. According to the Zend Framework web site, “Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors”. To view the current version of Zend Framework available from iDimensionz, visit our Zend Framework page. That page uses the Zend_Version class to display the current default version available. Other versions may be available. Contact iDimensionz Support for more information.
Mention Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in a techie related conversation and you’ll be viewed as someone who knows the cutting edge of IT. (Explain SOA correctly and you may even get some bonus points along the way too.) Read the rest of this entry »
After downloading and installing the full version of the Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tools), I was ready to start using Eclipse in my SimplyMEPIS (basically Ubuntu) distro to edit PHP code. To my surprise, the PHP perspective was not working. Read the rest of this entry »