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About Steven McAlister

I am the owner and main developer at Infinifire web development. Feel free to contact me personally about anything you see on this blog or the main site.

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The Evolution of Web Langauges

« 25 April 2008 | 9:07 | General Programming | No Comments »

I’ve been noticing something that actually scares me a bit lately.  If you look at the last approximately 10 years in web development languages you’ll notice a trend.
JAVA
Java and all its subsets(J2EE, J2SE etc) started out as a small movement trying to gain in over Microsoft technologies and other smaller web development languages.  Over a […]



PHP4 to PHP5 - HOW to make the upgrade

« 8 January 2008 | 12:38 | PHP Based Information | No Comments »

Yesterday I wrote up a entry about the why of moving to PHP 5.  I figured thats just no fun to read that you need to scrap what you’ve been doing and start over.  Well this is a run down on how to make that upgrade seamless as possible.  First things first your NOT really […]



PHP4 to PHP5 - time to make the upgrade?

« 7 January 2008 | 15:34 | PHP Based Information | No Comments »

Back on the 14th of July 2007 the PHP developers announced the EOL(thats end of life) for PHP 4.  As of January 1st 2008 you will see no more releases of PHP 4 and only ”case by case” security fixes will be available until August 8th 2008. 
So what does this mean for all the PHP developers […]