AJAX World Conference & Expo

Ruby East 2007

Be Part of Number 1 PHP Conference

This year is the third anniversary of Zend/PHP Conference. ZendCon 2007 sessions will cover both business and technical aspects of PHP.

All attendees are entitled to participate in in-depth tutorials, case studies and round tables. There will be an exhibit hall that will showcase leading companies leading solutions.

The conference highlights are the following:

• More than 40 sessions with a wide variety of topics
• Sessions led by PHP experts and business leaders
• Unique networking events with community members
• In-depth tutorials and business case studies
• Certification “crash courses” and exams
• Exhibit Hall with leading companies featuring cutting-edge solutions
• Exclusive discount of up to $500 on select Zend products

Zend Core for Oracle - A PHP and Oracle Web Collaboration

Last 2005, Oracle and Zend Technologies entered into a partnership to develop an integrated solutions that provides database-driven website using PHP and Oracle as it’s database.

Zend Core for Oracle is a pre-built stack for PHP developers that makes it easier for them to develop and deploy applications on a robust, scalable and reliable infrastructure. The product includes tight integration with Oracle Database client libraries, and native support for XML and Web services, while also supporting increased adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA). It delivers a rapid development and deployment foundation for database-driven applications.

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Underground PHP Oracle Manual

The book is designed to bridge the gap between the many PHP and the many Oracle texts available. This book is not a complete PHP or Oracle guide. It is assumed that you already have basic PHP and SQL knowledge and want best practices in using PHP against an Oracle database.

Release 1.4 is available for download from the Oracle Technology Network. Click here to download the file.
This new release includes lots of updates, including information on the PHP PDO_OCI extension, testing the OCI8 extension, tracing OCI8 internals, and comparison of old and new OCI8 function names.
The highlights of the changes are the following:

• Updated the versions of software in the install steps. Show how to use the Windows MSI installer. Added a section on upgrading OCI8 in PHP4. Added a section on enabling PDO.
• Updated the SQL Developer section.
• Improved and extended the examples. Many more can now be cut-and-pasted and run standalone.
• Added new connection performance tips.
• Show how to retrieve PL/SQL “success with information” errors.
• Added a section on testing.
• Added a chapter mapping PHP 4 to PHP 5 function names.
• Added a chapter on mapping ora_* to oci_* function names

Optimizing Rails on Oracle

Luca Mearelli of Spazidigitali, published an article in Oracle Technology Network about Tips for Optimizing Rails on Oracle . As you know Ruby has been the chosen as one of the the best programming language by Amazon Unspun, the Big 3 Search Engines and by CPU Benchmarks.

Rails on Oracle comes out as a good performer, but my only regret is that i did not have time to investigate (and maybe contribute back to the community) on adding proper bind variables support to ActiveRecord, which would have been the definitive optimization, but I see that the subject is being actively discussed on the core developers ML, so we may get there soon.

Dissecting Web 2.0

When you ask someone about the definition of Web 2.0, you will hear blogging, AJAX, wikis, Google Suggest and many other website services available around the web. Based on these keywords, Web 2.0 is the next generation of Internet based services that allow people to collaborate and share information online. Now let’s dissect Web 2.0.

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AJAX Overview

AJAX short for Asynchronous Javascript + XML is technology for developing web applications which was used years before it was coined by Jesse James Garrett in February 2005. This was overlooked by web developers until Gmail and Google used it in its applications such as Google Map and Google Suggest.

Ajax allows requests to server without page reloading and parsed and work with XML documents.

Creating an Instance of HTTP Request
To create a HTTP Request using Javascript, an instance of XMLHTTP which is an Active X object introduced in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Other browsers such as Mozilla, Safari implemented class similar to XMLHTTP called XMLHTTPRequest.

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Ideology of Web Development

Web development is a wide domain that consists of all fields of creating web site in cyberspace. Web development is divided into different layers. They are presentation, business and data layer.

Presentation Layer
Presentation layer is creating the visual or front-end part of the website. This consists of graphical web design and layout. This is visible to the users. The presentation layer should exist in every websites. Static website created in pure HTML without clients-side scripting is an example of this.

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