Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Open Source, PHP, Programming | Posted on 05-04-2001
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The next PHP Users group meeting for Southeastern Michigan meets today, April 5th, 2001.
The meeting starts officially at 8:00, however several people normally come around 7:00 for refreshments and networking. The meeting is open to any and all parties who wish to learn more about PHP. Anyone is welcome to attend!
The meeting is held at Tap Internet World Headquarters located at 125 North Huron in downtown Ypsilanti.
Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Internet, Open Source, Programming | Posted on 28-02-2001
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Recently Microsoft released an article that free software, or software released under the GNU GPL was against the American Way. Of course this is ridiculous, however it is nice to see that Richard Stallman (one of the biggest voices of open source software) stood up with a rebuttle to the foo by Microsoft. Stallman’s article can be read here. If you haven’t heard what Stallman says about Free Software and Open Source Software, this is a good article that will break you into start hating Microsoft as much as the next guy.
Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Internet, Open Source, PC Software | Posted on 15-02-2001
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Slashdot is carrying the ever talked about article about Microsoft stating that open source threatens the American Way. Ok folks, get ready. Here they come. Microsoft FUD at its very best. It is only going to get worse before it gets better people. This type of stuff agravates the heck out of me. If the stupid web sites that post this stuff would stop submitting articles about this type of FUD I would be much happier. But ohhhhhh no! No one will visit their site unless they post a bunch of flamtory articles submitted and written by Microsoft.
Microsoft did the same thing to IBM back when OS/2 was released and when the MAC was released. This means one thing and one thing only, They are scared!.
Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Open Source, PC Software | Posted on 14-02-2001
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It has been about 4 months since I tried running Mozilla’s latest offering of the open source browser. When I did I have to be honest, I didn’t like it. Yeah it was pretty and had some good ideas but I didn’t like it. Why, well for starters it was slow as heck!. Pages took forever to render and it crashed.
Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Open Source, PHP, Programming | Posted on 08-02-2001
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It is slowly becoming the classic argument among Unix web developers. Which language is better, Perl or PHP? Having touched way more PHP code than Perl code, I am of course biased. However today I spoke with a die hard advocate of Perl today and he spent about 10 minutes trying to explain to me how fast Perl was, how it could connect to different databases, mod this, mod that, yada yada yada. After hanging up he sent me about 10 different examples of how PHP cannot do the things Perl can do. One of the ones he sent was….
