Recently Brian Aker announced that he will develop RDBMS trimmed especially to use with web-apps. It will be named Drizzle.
Features of Drizzle
What will be changed in Drizzle in comparison to MySQL? First of all, whole architecture will be changed. Drizzle will be not monolithic chunk of software like its predecessor, but it will be based [...]

Today I’ve read article “Defending PHP” by Jim R. Wilson. He begins saying Ugh. I am so tired of defending PHP. And I’m saying “I am so tired of people defending PHP”. Why? First of all, if everything is OK, the language defends itself, and if lot of people complain about it, maybe really [...]

Everyone knows that “higher level management” like to look at colorful things, especially on PowerPoint presentations, and source codes are most boring things you can include in documentation. How to help it? You can colorize your codes.
There are many software packages that can “beautify” sources. Most of them have one limitation, which can ruin whole [...]

Auto-closing brackets and strings in Eclipse is very useful, but it works fine only for typing new code. When editing, it’s really annoying when you want to enclose some existing string with apostrophes and Eclipse engine enters two marks instead of one.
Great thing about Eclipse is that it’s very configurable. Also search option in preferences [...]