VictorSawma.com: Blog about Web, Security and Life

13 Dec, 2009

Today, I guided a workshop about high-availability database solutions at NDU. The workshop went for 6 straight hours (from 9:30 till 15:30) and was attended by more than 50 students from various universities in Lebanon. The workshop was organized by the NDU IEEE branch in collaboration with the Computer Science Club.

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2 Sep, 2009

I was having an interesting discussion yesterday about web programming languages with a friend of mine during which we tackled various programming languages (PHP, Java, VB and C#) and their competitive nature for web programming. I found it very useful to place a summary (yet a detailed one) about this topic due to the interestingly arguable nature of this topic.

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29 Apr, 2008

Let's face it: PHP rocks when simplicity is in mind. One major ex-barrier for PHP Software development, though, was the inability to use any graphical client except the browser. Unlike Java and .NET, PHP programs were only accessible through web browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.) with support for XHTML. We all know that GUI production using XHTML is harder than normal drag-n-drop GUI editors like .NET and JAVA.

Nowadays, PHP-GTK is very promising to deliver GUI software applications using PHP. PHP-GTK is platform independent and uses an architecture "somehow" similar to that of the JAVA engine architecture. You write your program using PHP and the PHP-GTK plugin (installed separately for the Operating System) takes care of executing the program for you.

In this article, I will discuss some of the points that PHP must take into serious consideration before being considered eligible for the competition. I will also discuss the points of strength and current points of weakness in this domain.
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24 Jan, 2007

It is well-know about the ease to play audio clips in Java when dealing with applets.

It is, however, hard to get a Java application to play audio clips because there is no such interface for audio clips.

In this article, I will demonstrate how to play audio clips.
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29 Sep, 2005

You can download the Java SDK from the Java website by clicking here.
A Trial download of the Java SunOne studio can be downloaded from here.
The Java documentation can be downloaded from here.