Aviv Ronen Blog

May 19 2008

70 Excellent Vintage and Retro Graphic Works

Retro and vintage are often considered as being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull. That’s not true. It has a large variety of benefits modern graphic designers often tend to overlook. And that’s a pity. Because we, as designers, can learn a lot from it.

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May 19 2008

30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples

Excellent CSS techniques and examples that showcases the capabilities and robustness of CSS. You
’ll see a variety of techniques such as image galleries, drop shadows, scalable buttons, menus, and more - all using only CSS and HTML.

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Apr 10 2008

Migration to PHP5

1) Improve performance
2) Fully Web2 Integration
3) PHP4 Is 8 years old! Old! Old!
4)Proven in  business critical deployment
5) Php5 Is Designed for Modern Web Applications (Json,Web Services ech)
6)New Zend Engine (Version 2) - Up to 4X Faster
7) New object Model (Design Pattern, Cloning ech)
8) better Memory management
9) Great XML Support (Simple XML,DOM ech)
10)Very Easy Soap!

 More Information available at:

http://www.zend.com/webinar/PHP/webinar-php4-php5-migration-20080326.flv


Apr 10 2008

Some PHP 4 Facts!

1) Php4 was born in 2000

2) PHP4 Security fix will be available until 8 August 2008

3) PHP4 Support ended in 1.1.2008

4) PHP4 will always be available for download

5) PHP5 Is already 3 years old!

So, Why are you still using PHP4, migrate to 5 ASAP


Apr 01 2008

PHP Easter Egg / 1 April

Well, it just so happens that if you add this string :
?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42
 at the end of any URL that is a PHP page (www.somewebsite.com/somephppage.php?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-0z0AA001ACF42) you will see a funny little picture of a dog.
for every version of PHP there is a difference image

php-terrier-dog.gifphp-rabbit.gifphp-dude.gifphp-dog.gifphp-colored.gif

For example: http://www.php.net/downloads.php?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42

 Basically, every PHP expert know that there are 4 famous queries you can send to a PHP page:

Query 1 - ?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42
This is the most interesting and funny query,  displays an funny image.

Query 2 - ?=PHPE9568F35-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42
Used by PHPINFO to show the Zend Logo, it will work on any php page

Query 3 - ?=PHPE9568F34-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42
Used by PHPINFO to show the Zend Logo, it will work on any php page.

Query 4 - ?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000
shows the PHP development credits.

 

Also, if you will look at the PHPINFO at 1 in April, the PHP Logo is replaced by the funny images above.

 

enjoy,

Aviv