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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers signed off on the .Asia Registry Agreement on Wednesday at its annual meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil, meaning that businesses in the Asia-Pacific region will soon have the option of registering an ".asia" domain. The top-level domain will be overseen by the DotAsia Organization. The ".asia" domain will be used as a supplement to country domains like ".jp" for Japan and ".cn" for China.
One developer's view of the pros and cons of the two most popular means of building web applications
When it comes to Web development these days, you have a lot of options. Many of these methods involve preprocessing—that is, embedding code into HTML pages with special tags that signal to a preprocessor that they contain code, and that it should do something with it. Much like a CGI, this code is then run on the server, and it returns some content, which then assumes part of the shape of the resulting HTML page sent back to the browser. Both the open source scripting language PHP and languages within Microsoft's ASP.NET framework fall into this category; JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Perl/Mason operate this way as well.
On that date the Nyxem virus is set to delete Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Acrobat files on infected machines.
Between now and PHP 6, we will see several minor patch releases at first that correct many problems with the original PHP 5 release. With PHP 5.1, whenever it is released, we will see the first big set of new functionality - mostly new functions to use, and new ways of doing things. What is certain is that more and more extensions will be added to the system to allow programmers to take advantage of more and more things in their code.
Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 ("Tiger") is the next major revision to the Java platform and language; it is currently slated to contain 15 component JSRs with nearly 100 other significant updates developed through the Java Community Process (JCP).
NOTE: The external version number of this release is 5.0 and its internal version number is 1.5.0, as described at J2SE Naming and Versioning.
With so many exciting changes in this release, you may be wondering where you should start. As in previous releases, the comprehensive list of all changes is available in the Release notes guide. This article, from the J2SE team, will take you through the major changes so that you have a grasp of what J2SE 5.0 has to offer, before diving into the API docs.
A step-by-step guide to developing online courses.
Abstract
Many institutions of higher education (IHE) are grappling with ways to implement and manage online instruction by using local personnel and resources, purchasing some components of management, or outsourcing distance education entirely. While each institution will make decisions that meets its unique needs, it is important to know about the range of possibilities available to university administrators today. The major problems confronting IHE's are twofold: (1) the lack of technical skill among faculty members to convert their courses into online formats, and (2) the need to support and manage distance education. This article provides an overview of the most popular online educational delivery applications.
This document represents a compilation of fundamental principles for designing user interfaces, which have been drawn from various books on interface design, as well as my own experience. Most of these principles can be applied to either command-line or graphical environments. I welcome suggestions for changes and additions -- I would like this to be viewed as an "open-source" evolving document.
You'd be surprised. I don't know about Cambodia, but I was surprised at the number of tvs in homes in Guatemala. Homes that had no toilet, dirt floors, and no running water, nonetheless had tv. Some with antennas, but one group of homes had satellite.
(AP) -- In a rural Cambodian village where the homes lack electricity, the nighttime darkness is pierced by the glow from laptops that children bring from school.
A prototype of a laptop computer that an MIT team wants to mass-produce and distribute to children in the developing world.
PHP uses a blend of interpretation and compilation in order to provide the best mix of performance and flexibility to programmers.
Behind the scenes, PHP compiles your script down to a series of instructions (called opcodes) whenever it is accessed. These instructions are then executed one by one until the script terminates. This is different from conventional compiled languages such as C++ where the code is compiled down to native executable code then that executable is run from then on. Instead, PHP re-compiles your script each time it is requested.
As you may have guessed from the title, in this article we will discuss a method for creating a very simple shopping cart using PHP. The only assumption made is that you have at least a basic understanding of PHP programming. We will first look at object-oriented PHP, so if you already feel comfortable with this topic, then you may skip on to the section titled "A Shopping Cart".
PHP is in it's element when it is running on a web server, grabbing data from a database and generating dynamic HTML. In this regard, it is very similar to ASP, Cold Fusion, JSP or even CGI. Running as a CGI program it can be used with just about any web server, but for better performance, it can run as an ISAPI filter, and for best performance, it can be run as an Apache module. As for database support, PHP supports a very large number of DBMSs including dBase, Informix, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, Solid, as well as ODBC.
