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yesterday i was extremely excited to take the ZCE certification(php), ive been studying and preparing for it for two months.
i read 3 books, parts of the php manual, and w3schools. i was really happy while studying and learning new stuff, i exposed myself to new fields ive never tried like XML, Streams and web services.
when i decided to take the exam and paid for it i got an email with the rules and stuff, i read them very well and called the test center to verify it because this ...

currently i do freelancing with a partner of mine and we have noticed that most employers and managers require programmers and web-developers to be young and fresh.
at first it seemed weird because who would make use of a web-developer with zero experience?! few words came into my mind; creativity, easy to change their minds, cost less money, lack of confidence....
but does that mean that old programmers arnt needed?!! im afraid that my value decreases as i grow up, i mean ill never ...

lately i had to use ASP.NET after i have dumped it and replaced it with php because i cant use PHP in a college project...and...i actually starting to like it(again).
phew that was a relief, learning PHP was awesome because i learned other stuff beside it like JS and AJAX, i hated ASP.NET because i thought it was too complex for my application and the design view really sucks. but when i used it this week i discovered some features that can be very useful:

• MASTER PAGE: the master page idea

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have you ever felt that all your class mates are pulling you back on a certain subject? specially subjects like programming. i did!
which made me wonder: is studying a programming language better off alone??
i shout YES!, for me programming is personal issue because its like an endless exploration in the jungle stopping for a break wont help me go further. this semester i had to take a java course at college i always hated that language(more than i hate dr.phill) but just like watching ...

any web developer will find himself in need to minimize the processing at the server for more effeicient and faster web application, thats why we use the word dynamic; the user recives a page and depending on his decisions the page will generate additional controls and html elements, for example if the user chooses that he lives in the US a listbox with the states will appear to choose from, but if he chooses another country from the list a textbox will appear to write the city that he lives in. ...

before i start lets see what life is, as wikipedia says:

Life is a characteristic of organisms that exhibit certain biological processes such as chemical reactions or other events that results in a transformation. Living organisms are capable of growth and reproduction, some can communicate and many can adapt to their environment through changes originating internally

so we have some main keywords: biological processes ,transformation, growth, reproduction, communicate and adapt
what ...

its pretty clear from the title that this log is about the performance of apache on windows versus ubuntu (distribution of linux).


i was exploring the bin folder of apache the other day and i found some .exe s that i havnt used before, one of them was the "ab" ApacheBenchmark; a tool used to benchmark a certain site (localhost or www) by sending multiple requests. and as a new uuntu users i found it funny to try this today on both OSs.

The PHP Script: ...