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Upgrading PHP/MySQL Application with Migration from PHP4 to PHP5

As the suppport for PHP4 is ending on August 8, 2008 as announced by PHP development team, it is required that everybody migrate their PHP environment to PHP5 ASAP. This requires some upgrades (we cannot tell just modifications, as there are goodies!) to make the existing applications in PHP4 to work with PHP5.

Firefox 3 Brings A Number of Changes to Our Online Behaviour

The new version of Firefox, Firefox 3, has a host of surprising enhancements over its predecessor and brings some innovative features to the browsers world.

New browser provides a plethora of goodies for users – better bookmark management with “places” (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Places), cleaner and feature-rich toolbar, and better memory management. At the same time, the support for developers have received a significant boost due to higher support for CSS 2.1, and faster javascript execution capabilities.

Get Peaceful Sleep at Night by Hosting at Rackspace

There are many who argue for cheap hosting, and in fact, would like to spend less than what a cup of tea costs. If you are serious about your website, its credebility, and its basic purpose of being available always, you cannot achieve them free. You need to consider reliable data centers.

Rackspace with its extraordinary support makes it the first choice of business houses. You may review the article on choosing a right web host.

PHP Development Tools

UML Design:
There are two excellent freewares:Dia: http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/This program helps in drawing class diagrams and has an extension to convert the class diagram into PHP code. However, the drawing functionality of this tool is very much limited to class diagrams.
The other is AgroUML: http://argouml.tigris.org/

Why a web page needs to be XHTML & CSS validated?

While developing a web page, we normally go for XHTML (preferably, Strict 1.0) & CSS2 validation. This is due to the following reasons: