nirav May 11th, 2007
Vaishali told about the new Yahoo! Web messenger. And it’s all done in Flex (and PHP)! It looks good, works well, and is a good example of things to come! They have made the panels look much better with rounded corners et al, and have kept the standard Flex look for drop downs and text boxes.
Overall, it works well and looks good! I knew Yahoo! is doing a lot of things with Flex after Yahoo! Maps, but this is a good example of what’s possible.
nirav May 9th, 2007
We have been working on a set of scripts to grab contacts from popular email and community sites. We released it under GPL yesterday.
PHPClasses.org actually found it very interesting and flagged it as notable! Here’s what they wrote about Contact Graber:
Extensive package that can be used to grab user contact lists from the most important e-mail and social networking sites: Yahoo, Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Rediff, Orkut and MySpace.
Kudos to Vishal, Janak, Pravin and Tapan for bringing this to life! If you are building something where you want to allow people to fetch their contacts from Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Rediff, Orkut or MySpace, and then use them on your site, go ahead and try this out! Feedback and contributions are welcome!
nirav February 20th, 2007
Read a note on Joel On Software about Language Wars. Someone asked him about the language to choose for his next project. And Joel mentions (on the language war):
These debates are enormously fun and a total and utter waste of time, because the bottom line is that there are three and a half platforms (C#, Java, PHP, and a half Python) that are all equally likely to make you successful, an infinity of platforms where you’re pretty much guaranteed to fail spectacularly when it’s too late to change anything (Lisp, ISAPI DLLs written in C, Perl), and a handful of platforms where The Jury Is Not In, So Why Take The Risk When Your Job Is On The Line? (Ruby on Rails).
What interested me, was the mention of PHP there, and the significance of it. We have been working with PHP for 8 years, and it has grown tremendously. It’s now even preferred language for big enterprises. Makes me proud to have taken the PHP route for Magnet! As it is, after working on and managing projects in so many technologies, PHP is still my number one choice for programming!
nirav January 17th, 2007
Rasmus Lerdorf took a session on Getting Rich with PHP at foss.in. (and earlier at OSCON). Part of the presentation covers code profiling and optimization. It’s pretty interesting. We are focusing on performance, automation and tools this month at Magnet, so thought of sharing this with all.
http://talks.php.net/show/oscon06/
nirav April 24th, 2006
Here are a few links I got from our PHP team in Magnet.
Yogesh sent a link that talks about Style Manipulation using Javascript.
Deepak said, How will you use AJAX with PHP? With or without xmlhttprequest & javascript? Checkout SmartJax
And Vishal and Samir mentioned a few from Zend. An old yet interesting one is Secure Programming with PHP.