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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:27:52 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Skaldrom Sarg's Blog: PHP-UWA Widget Library]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9118</guid>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>
<i>Skaldrom Sarg</i> pointed us towards <a href="http://oncode.info/project/PHPUWALibrary">a new project</a> he's been working on - an interface for PHP that allows it to use the <a href="http://dev.netvibes.com/">UWA-Widgets</a> from the NetVibes Universal Widget API system.
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The PHP-UWA library allows a facilitated use of <a href="http://dev.netvibes.com/">UWA-Widgets</a> with PHP. It gives you access to the preferences and some convenience-functions. In theory, it should work with every UWA-compliant widget (even the broken ones which use html in the JS-Parts or the body). Mini-Apis do sometimes work too. An example is included.
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You can see an example in <a href="http://oncode.info/files/images/example.preview.png">this screenshot</a>, try out <a href="http://www.oncode.info/projects/PHPUWAWidget/example/example.php">a demo</a> or just <a href="http://www.oncode.info/files/phpuwawidgetlib.zip">download the library</a> and get testing.
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:26:08 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Alex Netkachov's Blog: Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 driver for PHP]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8860</guid>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>
<i>Alex Netkachov</i> has posted some of <a href="http://www.alexatnet.com/node/93">his own thoughts</a> about Microsoft's recent SQL server 205 driver for PHP:
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I can add that a few years ago I had bad experience with MS SQL PHP extension. It was just impossible to use it in production environment. These days MS understand that PHP is a very popular programming language and step forward to the community
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He also <a href="http://www.alexatnet.com/node/93">includes a list</a> of some of the things that the driver includes/makes possible such as the fact that it's not a PDO or OOP driver, that there's no source posted for it and that it does support data streams.
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:21:58 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Jeff Moore's Blog: Keywords and Language Simplicity]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8828</guid>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>
<i>Jeff Moore</i> has <a href="http://www.procata.com/blog/archives/2007/10/11/keywords-and-language-simplicity/">posted</a> and shared an interesting graph showing something I'd never thought about comparing one language versus another on - the number of keywords it uses.
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<blockquote>
Well, I like programming language comparisons, so how could I resist <a href="http://iolanguage.com/about/simplicity/">this chart</a> (<a href="http://programming.reddit.com/info/2z11k/comments">via</a>) promoting the simplicity of the io language by pointing out how few keywords it has. The interesting thing about this is that Java and PHP are tied on this measure of simplicity with 53 keywords.
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Though not too meaningful, it is interesting to see how the different languages stack up in the number of reserved words you can't use for anything else. So, does that mean that Perl is the list limiting?
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
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