India is Moving to FOSS

Well, this is not the first, but this is another Indian State moving to FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). This time its Kerala. I do not want to write the same stuff again, have a look at Slashdot and The Hindu.

XML and Flash, Update for AS 3

I thought to add the update tutorial for XML and Flash as the XML and FLash interaction has been upgraded to a higher level in Actionscript3. Since this is my first post for AS3 I will start by referring to a great tutorial for Flash and XML in AS3 .

You will feel at home if you have gone through my past 2 tutorials regarding XML. Those refer to AS2 but will clear your understaning regarding XML in general.

In AS3 the XML parser is updated and now its called ECMAScript for XML (E4X). Unlike traditional XML parsing APIs, E4X makes XML feel like a native data type of the language.If you still wish to use the old XML parser, then the good news is you can still use it.But the old XML class is moved to a different package in AS3.

php at commandline

Hi,

This is really interesting that Php can run from commandline too.This is a a surprise for me.As i always thought it is the language for Web.Well, it is but it can run from commandline too.Which opens doors to create desktop applications. I was searching for windows scripting, then go for shell scripting to do a certain requiremetn for my experimental project. I went through languages and scriptsstarting from AWK, Shell script to PERL. At the end I found I can do the same with PHP-CLI. Too good. I am at home now with PHP.

Below are two links I got from one of my friends,

Ncurses Terminal Screen Control Functions

GNU Readline

Here is another good extension I found while searching for Commandline Php scripting. its called PHP-GTK.

Long live Php