The past couple of days I've been hacking SOAP support into the payment engine we use at work. In doing this I have been able exposed the SOAP tools built into IBM's Rational Application Developer (commonly referred to as RAD6) and Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET. First, let's just make it clear that Visual Studio .NET is the shizzle when it comes to web services from the developers point of view. For you non-Microsoft types, I'd even tell you that Mono isn't too far behind with their tools even if they aren't all UI-based yet*. RAD6 is next in line...I...

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The newest installment of MVCnPHP, 2.1.2, is ready for public use and comes quickly on the heels of 2.1 because the pear package didn\'t include the .xsd or sample XML config file. To install it simply issue: $>pear install http://www.tonybibbs.com/Geeklog_MVCnPHP-2.1.2.tgz NOTE: users of previous releases will have to uninstall the current version. Enjoy! --Tony

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The newest installment of MVCnPHP, 2.1, is ready for public use. To install it simply issue: $>pear install http://www.tonybibbs.com/Geeklog_MVCnPHP-2.1.tgz NOTE: users of previous releases will have to uninstall the current version. Enjoy! --Tony

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The first production release of MVCnPHP2 has been released. To install it simply issue: $>pear install http://www.tonybibbs.com/Geeklog_MVCnPHP-2.0.1.tgz NOTE: users of the alpha release will have to uninstall the current version. Enjoy! --Tony

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The first beta of MVCnPHP has been released. To install it simply issue: $>pear install http://www.tonybibbs.com/Geeklog_MVCnPHP-2.0.0.tgz Enjoy! --Tony

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Where I work we develop a lot of our applications using PHP. PHP4 has been stable for quite a few years and now that PHP5 is in it's second release candidate it is a good time to start thinking about making the switch. This poses an interesting delimna for developers as you will want to have access to both the PHP4 and PHP5 interpreter without having to modify your Apache or IIS configuration. You can get around this problem in one of a f ew ways. I offer up this article that can get...

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Ok, it's been a while since I've had a desire to make any sort of short whitepaper but some things at work have changed that. Where I work we have a number of cron scripts for various systems we support that need to communicate with our enterprise database solution in DB2. Most cases these are non-interactive programs that simply run at some odd hour of the night to prepare some data for further processing a later time. To date nearly all of this has been done via some nasty bash scripts or via Java. Both...

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One of my pet-peeves as a technology-guru, is how some people are given a hammer and can't appreciate that there are other things in the world other than nails. If you spend enough time on this site you may get the feeling that I'm just another open source bigot who hates the Microsoft empire and anything that is closed. That's not true. I've been around the block long enough to have been exposed to a number of technologies and I appreciate when one might be better than another when presented a problem. The Java vs....

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