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The term "ancient" is relative and unfortunately I can remember using many of the machines in this video, but compared to what we have today, the various equipment used here are "older than the internet," so to speak.

It makes the end result, an ...

NetTuts.com has a new tutorial posted showing you some of the basics of uploading files via Ajax a bit more natively.

With AT&T introducing its new metered broadband plans, one of the key parts of the plan was an actual digital meter to tell you how much of your quote you used up.

While we can argue about whether or not this acts as a massive disincentive for use, one thing that I don't think can be debated is that if AT&T is going to offer such a meter, it really ought to work.

Tragically, it doesn't.

Debugging Variables

London, UK Thursday, February 10th 2011, 09:12 GMT

Sometimes you want to inspect the contents of variables more closely, by looking at its internal properties.

For this, PHP has the debug_zval_dump function.

The TSA stories are coming fast and furious these days.

I've said from the beginning that I really don't understand all of the complaints about the Comcast/NBCU merger.

It's the modern equivalent of AOL/Time Warner, which really only served to hasten people to move away from crappy old solutions.

So, when I see a report claiming that the end result will mean higher prices for consumers as NBC jacks up its rates, I'm still not convinced this is a bad thing.

Scott Photographics: "This tutorial is very easy and the end result is all about what you prefer, so have fun playing around with colour and texture!"

In another in his Zend Framework 101 series of articles on phpRiot.com Quentin Zervaas sets his sights on Zend_Cache in this new tutorial.

New from the DevTrench.com blog there's an article comparing CodeIgniter and Symfony based on the features they provide to developers looking for that perfect framework fit.

Flameeyes: "So what's the problem here? Well, while I think the end result of GNU software is generally very good, I find the general code very messed up and pretty much unreadable and unusable."