Today was another one of those days where there just wasn't enough hours in the day. The webcast for PowerTogether was put on hold till tomorrow. But, not all was lost. In fact, just the opposite has become in the absense of my review on Microsoft's webcast discussed earlier ( Free Windows Vista and Free Microsoft Office 2007 ).

There was a site which exsisted for a short period of time in the past that I contributed to. The site is now going in a different direction with different content but, I was fortunate enough to be great friends with the webmaster who was nice enough to passed his content and my own over to me.

So most of this evening was spent taking a raw database dump and picking out the articles I wanted for this site. Then I had to clean all the database escape characters out and reformat the page so it's easier to read. You can thank me for all my hard work by clicking some ads anywhere on this page.

Where was I?
Almost a year ago, I delved into the intriguing subject of Ajax. What was this new fad sweeping the world of web developers and web designers alike? The only thing I knew at first glance was that there was some cleaning product by the same name. The box had a blue color and some red text with a white oblong thrown in behind it. "Stronger than dirt" was the slogan, but to tell you the truth, I never saw my mother use the stuff, so it must've been over-priced.

PHP

Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) is an open source server side programming language extensively used for web scripts and to process data passed via the Common Gateway Interface from HTML forms etc. PHP can be written as scripts that reside on the server and may produce HTML output that downloads to the web browser. Alternatively, PHP can be embedded within HTML pages that are then saved with a .php file extension. The PHP sections of the page are then parsed by the PHP engine on the server and the PHP code stripped out before the page is downloaded to the web browser. It is used for connecting to a database to create all kinds of web applications, such as product catalogs, changing content, calendars, and e commerce