Sometimes, you want to run PHP with Tomcat. Why? Well, you may have a legacy product, for instance, that will require servlets for many more years. Or you may be using this gigantic Java program and are only interested in adding a tiny PHP piece on the side. There are many guides showing how to do this available, but they [...]

JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is fairly popular. This is just my modest take on a ‘PHP Object Notation’ implementation. Note that it is meant to follow how your mind works rather than being syntactically correct; therefore, associative arrays are used in a loose manner where you have to worry about associative syntax as little as possible. Basically, type away [...]

Here it is in all its glory. From Microsoft’s Press Page. If you do a search for “microsoft yahoo” on Flickr, you will find a lot of interesting images; no idea whether this represents the opinion of only a few vocal people or if indeed Flickr users are, as a group, quite nonplussed. A suggestion: if people are this much [...]

…almost Another update: After reading some of the comments to this entry, I googled ‘pass-by-reference’ and discovered that the semantic aspect of what the phrase means has been the topic of many topics along time with funny titles such as “More on Java- pass by reference, but not really” or more seriously “Parameter passing in Java – by reference or [...]