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• Which Rich Internet Application Technology will dominate?

  Phil Leggetter 1:34 am on November 7, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Ajax (2), flash (2), Flex, JavaScript (5), PHP, real-time data (6), real-time web (15), RIA (2), silverlight (7)

  I’ve been a member of the RIA Developers Group on LinkedIn for a short while now and the other day Patrick Bay posted a link to an interesting article on Computer Weekly about the prominence of RIAs. A few comments were posted and then Patrick questioned which RIAs would “bubble to the top”.

  I think the UI revolution’s already here; now we see which ones bubble to the top!

  This got me thinking about the criteria that may determine which RIA technology would be most successful.

  I think there are a number of things that will determine which one will ultimately win, or at least become the dominant choice. At the moment I can think of three categories; Technology buy-in, Development environment and Data access capabilities and choice.
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• How to read a file into a string using PHP

  Phil Leggetter 2:39 pm on February 28, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: code snippet, PHP, Software Development (16), Uncategorized

  	function ReadFile($filename)
  	{
  		$fh = fopen($filename, 'r');
  		$theData = fread($fh, filesize($filename));
  		fclose($fh);
  		return $theData;
  	}