Steve Jobs' misconceptions about Flash and the ActionScript environment are confusing.Apple had a long-standing relationship with Adobe. In fact, they met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was Adobe's first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for their new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years.The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good tim
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When websites began, they contained very little movement, if any at all. Now, with a program called ActionScript, programmers and web designers are able to add an unprecedented amount of movement via animation.
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Attention programmers; a new open source programming language called Go has been launched by none other than those innovators at Google. Why? Because no significant language has come to the fore in the last decade, while many changes have occurred on the web during that time. Google are known to prefer Python and Javascript, therefore Go is expected to resemble a combination of both, as well as its own flavour. The video below is a one-hour long Google introduction on Go Progra
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Developer tools are now rising allowing programmers to now choose software they are comfortable with to assist them during the development and testing process. I highlight some for you below. Recently, I used a tool called PhoneGap, which combines a focus on pure JavaScript and HTML for phones.
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Every self-respecting geek would tell you that what he would like in a friend are one, that he's very rich, two, he's able to keep up with the intellectual barter that happens whenever technology or any intelligent conversations would come up. Lastly, he should really be good with the ladies, considering that majority of us geeks are female free (since birth). If you feel the same way as millions of other geeks in the world, there's only one person in the entire universe that has to be
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This blog will explain how to search a MySQL database using keywords, then returning results which are sorted by relevance. The key involves an alternative to the "LIKE %keyphrase%" technique.
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PHP5's Object Oriented features has enabled programmers to use advanced programming techniques like Design patterns.
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