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The keywords from Day 2 are: innovation, accessibility, usability, project management, social network, mobile and data. To allow innovation at workplace, management should not be destructively critical when mistakes are made (Ref: William L. McKnight, 3M) Having a clean and organised data structure for your web site is important Mobile social networks are coming to [...]

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The keywords from Day 1 are: web 2.0, standards, social media, web apps, mash-ups, APIs, web services, mobile, users Social systems are built to serve people’s selfishness No matter how boring your startup website may be, as long as there is a need for it, people will use it Mobile 2.0 is the next big [...]

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About 2 million sites (20,016,421 domains, to be precise) use PHP (Ref: Usage Stats for April 2007) 75% of Web 2.0 sites are built in PHP (Ref: InformationWeek) Some of the biggest online brands, such as Facebook, Friendster, Flickr, Technorati, and Yahoo! are powered by PHP About 5 million PHP developers worldwide As of August [...]

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In PHP, exporting data into an excel file (.csv) can be achieved very easily by sending a raw HTTP header. And having a formula in cells is no brainier either (and I only found that out after searching through google and not finding any solution – hehe). The following is a rough example of how [...]

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Continue reading It’s all too web 2.0

I have finished reading Professional Web APIs with PHP: eBay, Google, Paypal, Amazon, FedEx plus Web Feeds book by Paul Reinheimer over the weekend. I have to say, it was quite a resourceful read. I have read a few books on API but I found this book particularly interesting because the book was intended for [...]

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