ITechLog » Programming http://itechlog.com Your source to IT solutions, interesting technology news and code snipets. Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:42:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Android to iPhone Apps with XML http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2009/07/08/android-to-iphone-apps-with-xml/ http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2009/07/08/android-to-iphone-apps-with-xml/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:54:49 +0000 Alex Costa http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2009/07/08/android-to-iphone-apps-with-xml/ Why has no one thought of it before….. ? You may ask. But someone now has.  The XMLVM project was created by Arno Puder and his team at San Francisco State University.  What it does is provide a bridge between disparate compile-time and run-time environments — in a word cross-compiling, as described by  Frank Ableson on the Linux Magazine website. 

XMLVM serves as an umbrella for several projects. For all projects, a Java class file or a .NET executable is first translated to an XML-document. Based on the XML-document generated by the front-end, various transformations are possible. (extracted)

The possibilities are immense, but I think it will really take off in the mobile market with Applications being able to run cross-platform from Android to iPhone and so on.

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 ”we’re making it easier for contributors to take responsibility for packages and to contribute directly to openSUSE. This means contributors will be able to be directly responsible for packages, without having to go through a Novell employee to make changes.“

Read more on OpenSuse News site.

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]]> http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2009/06/20/opensuse-factory/feed/ 0 Automatically display form data with PHP http://itechlog.com/web-programming/2009/05/13/automatically-display-form-data-with-php/ http://itechlog.com/web-programming/2009/05/13/automatically-display-form-data-with-php/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 12:23:44 +0000 Alex Costa http://itechlog.com/?p=723 This is a simple PHP  script to automatically display (dump output)  data submited from a html form.

The form setup

  • all inputs (form fields) need to have the same name with [] at the end to turn it into an array,  e.g <input type=text name=formdata[]>

formq.html content

<form method=post action=showme.php>
Name: <input type=text name=formdata[]><br>
Email: <input type=text name=formdata[]><br>

<input type=submit value=ok>
</form>

The Script setup

showme.php content

<?php
$data = $_POST['formdata']; # get value from the form fields

foreach ( $data as $key => $value ) { # loop through array collecting the results

echo  “$value<br>”;  # output the data  – print to page
}
?>

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]]> http://itechlog.com/web-programming/2009/05/13/automatically-display-form-data-with-php/feed/ 0 PHP 5.2.8 Avaliable fixed the security bug on 5.2.7 http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2008/12/09/php-528-avaliable-fixed-the-security-bug-on-527/ http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2008/12/09/php-528-avaliable-fixed-the-security-bug-on-527/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:34:33 +0000 Alex Costa http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2008/12/09/php-528-avaliable-fixed-the-security-bug-on-527/ the PHP version 5.2.7 was removed from distribution due to a bug that caused a security hole in some configurations. The bug was related to the magic_quotes_gpc which will be deprecated in version 2.6.

The PHP development team has officially announced the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.8. This release addresses a regression introduced by 5.2.7 in regard to the magic_quotes functionality, that was broken by an incorrect fix to the filter extension. All users who have upgraded to 5.2.7 are encouraged to upgrade to this release, alternatively you can apply a work-around for the bug by changing “filter.default_flags=0″ in php.ini.

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]]> http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2008/12/09/php-528-avaliable-fixed-the-security-bug-on-527/feed/ 0 Python3 – Intentionaly backward incompatible http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2008/12/08/python3-intentionaly-backward-incompatible/ http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2008/12/08/python3-intentionaly-backward-incompatible/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:05:15 +0000 Alex Costa http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2008/12/08/python3-intentionaly-backward-incompatible/ Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries.

The Python developers have released the final version of Python
3.0, a major reworking of the programming language. It’s said to be intentionally incompatible
with the Python 2 series.

According to Guido van Rossum (Project Founder)

“… the new features in Python 3.0, compared to 2.6.
Python 3.0, also known as “Python 3000” or “Py3K”, is the first ever
intentionally backwards incompatible Python release. There are more
changes than in a typical release, and more that are important for all
Python users. Nevertheless, after digesting the changes, you’ll find
that Python really hasn’t changed all that much – by and large, we’re
mostly fixing well-known annoyances and warts, and removing a lot of
old cruft.”

read the official “What’s New in Python 3.0” release.

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]]> http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2008/12/08/python3-intentionaly-backward-incompatible/feed/ 0 Search Engine Optimization SEO in PHP (Book) http://itechlog.com/web-programming/2008/12/04/search-engine-optimization-seo-in-php-book/ http://itechlog.com/web-programming/2008/12/04/search-engine-optimization-seo-in-php-book/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:55:02 +0000 Alex Costa http://itechlog.com/?p=101
The term SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has become a new phenomenon with marketeers.  As a programmer/developer it’s very hard to find a good book on such a broad subject but recently I found this great book. The authors go about explaining and guiding you through exercises that are relevant for both programmers and marketeers.  It contains detailed chapters on Website Content, Links, Webmaster tools and MOD_REWRITE. The code snipets found in this book can be used as a good reference guide to any SEO project.  This book is for PHP Programmers but they have also published a .NET version.

If  you develop with WordPress.org this releted post can also be very helpfull:  SEO and WordPress

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