What does it take to state one language better than other? One answer can be flexibility, development friendly, licensing policy (open source or commercial), community, portability, dynamic typing, support for variable number of function arguments and ability to freeze live objects in a string representation. Comparison of PHP vs Python.

Popularity of programming languages for the month of November, few majors languages like Java, C and PHP are quite stable in terms of their preference in applications. Python is gaining ground too. Few languages like Ruby, Perl, COBOL are loosing their ground despite strong support from their community.

What if you are using AJAX requests in application but your server is offline for some reasons? An interesting and unfortunate by-product of AJAX applications is that these applications rely upon the existence of an application server always being available.

PHP’s next edition, V6, includes new features and syntax improvements that will make it easier to use from an object-oriented standpoint. Other important features, such as Unicode support in many of the core functions, mean that PHP V6 is positioned for better international support and robustness.

Chat applications are very common in social networking sites, dating sites and other web applications where you need your users to interact with each other or even to site admin. Previously, there were many PHP chat applications which needed page refreshing annoying the users. Then came AJAX chat applications which doesn’t need page refresh and looks very similiar like any flash chat applications. Following is a list of PHP AJAX chat applications you can use in your web applicaitons for free.

Recent versions of MySQL have implemented support for foreign keys through the InnoDB table engine. Following is an explaination of how it works.
Referential integrity is an important concept in database design. The term refers to a state when all the references in a database are valid and no invalid links exist between the various tables that make up the system. When referential integrity exists, any

Meta-programming is the writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves) as their data, or that do part of the work at compile time that is otherwise done at run time. Check out a Ruby example of writing your own DSL (Domain Specific language).

Delphi for PHP is a visual IDE for developing applications in PHP. It is based on the same codebase as Delphi, and it implements a library of objects in PHP based on Delphi’s Visual Component Library (VCL). This will make working in Delphi for PHP a familiar experience to current or past Delphi or C++ Builder users.

How to animate images on the HTML page? Is it complicated? What tools and technologies you need to use? This article will explain simple image animation and show live demo.

The Essential Guide to Flex 3 is also another Friends of Ed book, this one written by Charles Brown. The book’s intent is to provide a good introductory overview of basic concepts in Flex programming, covering almost all the bases on how to develop simple, yet powerful applications.