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iphone — why the hype? April 1, 2008

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Unless you have been living under a rock; you have probably heard of — if not bought and used — the iphone.  Bloggers have been singing its praises, and people have been stealing them, hacking them, using them, and some have also been complaining. Loudly. I’m one of those complainers, read on to find out why.

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Massive Phone Grid March 30, 2008

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If you are one of those people that can never decide on which phone to buy, try this grid.

Courtesy of AAS.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 March 29, 2008

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Vista SP 1

Today I decided to install the new SP for Windows Vista; because some of the notable changes were things that I really wanted to test (especially the improvement in file copy operations).

For some strange reason, the SP1 was not showing up in the usual Windows Update checks, but some quick trawling at microsoft.com (tip: use google to search microsoft.com), I found the offline installer package; which is a hefty 726 MB for the 64-bit update.

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Parsing XML using PHP4 June 6, 2005

Posted by Burhan in : PHP, Tutorials, XML , 10comments

This tutorial will explain how to parse (that is, read and interpret) information from a XML file using PHP. I will discuss the very basics of XML (mainly structure), and then jump right in to the reading and parsing of XML files. This is not a tutorial on XML itself, just parsing XML with PHP. (more…)

Zend Studio CVS over SSH integration June 5, 2005

Posted by Burhan in : Install Guides, Tutorials , 4comments

I’m a long time user of Zend’s excellent Studio IDE product, and especially with their new version 4.0 — it really is a must have for anyone wanting to do any serious PHP development work.

4.0 introduces a lot of neat features (you can read about them at the official what’s new page). One feature is that it allows for CVS integration to allow teams of developers to work collaboratively.

Anyone who works with CVS knows that the best way to connect to a CVS server remotely is via SSH. Zend Studio 4.0 supports CVS-over-SSH, however, the official KB article did not work for me, and after several support tickets, the problem still remained unresolved — until I resolved it myself. (more…)