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Comment: Re:PHP is an ugly programming language (Score 0) 519

by ErGalvao (#38571920) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Which Web Platform Would You Use?
"An ugly programming language"? PHP syntatically follows the same style as Perl and C, so you're basically saying all three are ugly? Or maybe you're saying that only about PHP because it makes you look so cool? Seriously now, if you wanna criticize a programming language do so by using technical arguments, this is not a beauty pageant.
Businesses

Developer Job Growth Slows in North America

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narramissic
narramissic writes "New research from Evans Data Corp. finds that by 2010 North America will account for 18% of worldwide software developer jobs, down from 23% today, further documenting the trend of software development work shifting away from the U.S. It is worth noting, however, that there are still 'elements of software development,' including Ajax, that are strongest in the U.S., says John Andrews, president and chief operating officer of Evans Data."
PHP

Command-line PHP? Yes, you can!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Learn how to debug PHP code from the command line and examine the strengths of PHP as a shell scripting language unto itself. Give PHP a chance on the command-line interface, and you may find that it has become your new favorite shell-scripting tool. There's really nothing stopping you from using PHP as your Swiss Army knife for almost any given programming project."
Windows

What's missing from Vista's "official apps"

Submitted by
PetManimal
PetManimal writes "Microsoft has just released a list of 800 applications it says are "officially supported" on Windows Vista. What's special about this list, however, are the programs that are not included:

Popular Windows software that is conspicuously missing from Microsoft's list includes Adobe Systems Inc.'s entire line of graphics and multimedia software, Symantec Corp.'s security products, as well as the Mozilla Foundation's open-source Firefox Web browser, Skype Ltd.'s free voice-over-IP software and the OpenOffice.org alternative to Microsoft Office
Another area in which Vista has found to be lacking is gaming, as discussed earlier on Slashdot."
GNOME

The Perfect Desktop - Part 1: Fedora Core 6

Submitted by
hausmasta
hausmasta writes "With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the first of a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Fedora Core 6 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfect_desktop_fedo ra_core6"
Announcements

Call from 'anywhere'... from anywhere!

Submitted by Butcher
Butcher writes "Network World talks about a new service called Whooptones which lets you add backgrounds to your phone calls — backgrounds that let you create the illusion that you're somewhere else. Just think — now you can cover up your Saturday night at home reading Slashdot with a call to your friends — just activate the party background and scream into the phone "SORRY, CAN'T HANG WITH YOU TONIGHT!" That's it — you're done, they think you're cool, and you can go back to Slashdot! (I know, unrealistic example because Slashdot on a Saturday night is already cool.)

There's even more. Whooptones also lets you 'inject' sounds by pressing the buttons on your phone — sounds that you select from the library or create yourself. How about greeting the customer care rep after your 25 minutes on hold with chain gun fire.

Some other cool features: it works with any phone (cell, fixed), voice recognition for dialing contacts, click-to-call, and ability to create your own private sounds as well as publish some for others."
Security

Ex-judge Gets 27 Months on Evidence from Hacked PC

Submitted by netbsd_fan
netbsd_fan writes "A former California judge has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for possession of illegal pornography, based entirely on evidence gathered by an anonymous vigilante script kiddie in Canada. At any given time he was monitoring over 3,000 innocent people: "I would stay up late at night to see what I could drag out of their computers, which turned out to be more than I expected. I could read all of their e-mails without them knowing. As far as they were concerned, they didn't know their e-mails had even been opened. I could see who they were chatting with and read what they were saying as they typed.""
Education

Contracts required for training dollars?

Submitted by Rev Cacher
Rev Cacher writes "Since certifications make you more valuable, it seems reasonable that a company would want to protect their investment in your education. Does your company require that you sign an agreement to stay there for a certain period of time prior to sending you to certification classes? What is a reasonable time? Does it depend on how much is being spent on the class, such as you must stay for X months for every $1000 spent on you?"
Microsoft

Ballmer Repeats Threats Against Linux 470

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the this-can-only-end-badly dept.
daria42 writes "Steve Ballmer has reissued Microsoft's patent threat against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his company's intellectual property. In a no-nonsense presentation to New York financial analysts last week, Microsoft's chief executive said the company's partnership with Novell, which it signed in November 2006, "demonstrated clearly the value of intellectual property, even in the open-source world.""
Red Hat Software

Eric S. Raymond switches from Fedora to Ubuntu

Submitted by kRemit
kRemit writes "Eric S. Raymond announced that he switched from Fedora Core to Ubuntu Edgy Eft for his workstation on the Fedora dev mailing list (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list /2007-February/msg01006.html), because of numerous issues ranging from dependency-hell to the "culture of Fedora" — especially the apparent decision to give up the struggle for desktop-marketshare."

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