190. Google Chrome vs Firefox: Chrome is Catching Up on Features for Web Developers
Updated on: 2012-07-26
Posted on: 2012-07-26
Google Chrome browser seems to have practically reached the leadership of the market share of browsers among the generality of the users. However, Firefox still leads in the preference of the majority of Web developers.
This article is a follow-up of another written last year entitled "Top 10 Reasons Why Firefox is still Better than Chrome for Web Development".
This time it includes a point by point response from Renato Mangini of Google Chrome Developer relations team on the issues raised in the past article to explain which issues were addressed or can be overcome somehow.
Read this article to learn more on how Google Chrome is catching up on Firefox, as well find out about other less known cool features of Chrome that can improve your Web user experience.
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This article is a follow-up of another written last year entitled "Top 10 Reasons Why Firefox is still Better than Chrome for Web Development".
This time it includes a point by point response from Renato Mangini of Google Chrome Developer relations team on the issues raised in the past article to explain which issues were addressed or can be overcome somehow.
Read this article to learn more on how Google Chrome is catching up on Firefox, as well find out about other less known cool features of Chrome that can improve your Web user experience.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2012-07-04
The PHP 5.4 includes 7 main optimizations that made PHP work more efficiently in terms of the speed and memory usage efficiency.
That is the main topic discussed in episode 25 of the Lately in PHP podcast on which Manuel Lemos received Gustavo Lopes, a PHP core developer.
Listen to the podcast, watch the podcast video or read the transcript to learn more about these and other interesting PHP topics discussed on this episode.
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That is the main topic discussed in episode 25 of the Lately in PHP podcast on which Manuel Lemos received Gustavo Lopes, a PHP core developer.
Listen to the podcast, watch the podcast video or read the transcript to learn more about these and other interesting PHP topics discussed on this episode.
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Updated on: 2012-06-26
Posted on: 2012-06-26
The PHP Classes site just made 13 years of age in June 24. Coincidentally, just these days the site reached 1.1 million registered users.
On this anniversary a new feature was released to make it easier for you to automatically share the best content of the site in social networks.
Read this article to learn how this automatic sharing feature works and how you can get more recognition by raising in the friends of the site ranking.
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On this anniversary a new feature was released to make it easier for you to automatically share the best content of the site in social networks.
Read this article to learn how this automatic sharing feature works and how you can get more recognition by raising in the friends of the site ranking.
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Updated on: 2012-06-14
Posted on: 2012-06-14
PHP 5.4 introduced several performance optimizations. One of them was not discussed much in the PHP community but it may affect the performance of your code depending on the way you write it.
Read this article to learn more about this less known PHP 5.4 optimization and what you need to do to make your PHP code take advantage of this optimization to run faster spending less memory.
The article also talks about a speculation of what PHP 6 and Zend Engine 3 can be in the future using explicitly declared types of variables and function return values to generate code that makes PHP applications run much faster.
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Read this article to learn more about this less known PHP 5.4 optimization and what you need to do to make your PHP code take advantage of this optimization to run faster spending less memory.
The article also talks about a speculation of what PHP 6 and Zend Engine 3 can be in the future using explicitly declared types of variables and function return values to generate code that makes PHP applications run much faster.
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Updated on: 2012-06-04
Posted on: 2012-06-04
The PHP Standards Group is trying to push new specifications for PHP coding standards. Whether PHP developers need and will adopt these standards was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in episode 24 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also discussed the complaints of Linus Torvalds on the limitations of GitHub handling Git pull requests and whether that will affect the processing of pull requests to the PHP core project.
Other topics include the latest PHP 5.4.3 and 5.3.13 bug fixes, the chart of PHP releases over time, and the JavaScript Innovation Award initiative that is about to start and repeat the success of the PHP Innovation Award.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video recording or read the transcript to learn about these and other interesting PHP related topics here.
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They also discussed the complaints of Linus Torvalds on the limitations of GitHub handling Git pull requests and whether that will affect the processing of pull requests to the PHP core project.
Other topics include the latest PHP 5.4.3 and 5.3.13 bug fixes, the chart of PHP releases over time, and the JavaScript Innovation Award initiative that is about to start and repeat the success of the PHP Innovation Award.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video recording or read the transcript to learn about these and other interesting PHP related topics here.
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Updated on: 2012-05-21
Posted on: 2012-05-21
The JSClasses site is going to replicate the success of the PHP Programming Innovation Award organized by the PHPClasses site in order to provide more recognition and prizes to developers that submit innovative components.
The JavaScript Innovation Award is not yet started but can start soon with your help.
Read this note to learn more about this new award and what you can do to help getting it started sooner rather than later.
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The JavaScript Innovation Award is not yet started but can start soon with your help.
Read this note to learn more about this new award and what you can do to help getting it started sooner rather than later.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2012-05-09
DaDaBIK is an Open Source PHP project which allows you to create Web front-end and simple database applications without coding. The new stable version 4.4 of DaDaBIK was released recently.
Read this article to learn more about DaDaBIK and how you can use it to productively create your PHP applications.
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Read this article to learn more about DaDaBIK and how you can use it to productively create your PHP applications.
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Updated on: 2012-05-26
Posted on: 2012-05-07
Once in a while we see fans of other languages writing long articles on why PHP sucks and you should not use it. But will that ever matter?
That is one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in the episode 23 of the Lately in PHP podcast, for the first time also recorded in video using Google Hangouts On Air.
They also covered other polemic ideas for future PHP versions like the pure PHP script proposal, making function names case-sensitive and the option to skip optional function parameters.
Another interesting topic discussed in this podcast is about the proposals for HTTP 2.0 protocol.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video recording or read the transcript to learn about these and other interesting PHP related topics.
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That is one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in the episode 23 of the Lately in PHP podcast, for the first time also recorded in video using Google Hangouts On Air.
They also covered other polemic ideas for future PHP versions like the pure PHP script proposal, making function names case-sensitive and the option to skip optional function parameters.
Another interesting topic discussed in this podcast is about the proposals for HTTP 2.0 protocol.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video recording or read the transcript to learn about these and other interesting PHP related topics.
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Updated on: 2012-05-03
Posted on: 2012-05-03
The HTTP protocol version 2.0 is in the process of being defined. There was a call for proposals and several researchers submitted specifications and ideas that can make the Web faster and better in several other aspects.
Read this article to learn about the details of these proposals and what Web developers can expect to prepare to take advantage of the planned improvements of the HTTP 2.0 protocol.
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Read this article to learn about the details of these proposals and what Web developers can expect to prepare to take advantage of the planned improvements of the HTTP 2.0 protocol.
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Updated on: 2012-04-25
Posted on: 2012-04-23
The upcoming episodes of the Lately in PHP podcast will be recorded in video using the Google Hangouts service.
This is a brief note on how you can participate in the recording sessions if you are interested to have a voice and interact with other podcast participants giving your opinion on the different subjects that we will discuss.
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This is a brief note on how you can participate in the recording sessions if you are interested to have a voice and interact with other podcast participants giving your opinion on the different subjects that we will discuss.
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