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Lately, I have been becoming much more dependent of Flock’s RSS reader for my news. With integration with your browser and blogging it has turned out to be my favorite RSS feader I have use so far. After googling around I found this trick was very simple:

https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom

Now if only Flock would only team up with bloglines, then I would have ultimate RSS usability.

technorati tags:rss, flock, gmail

Lately, I have wondered into a seemingly age-old question: PHP vs. Java. From my perspective Rapid Application Development has lead to PHP as a technology of choice for quickly getting sites up. On the other hand there is a real complaint that it is simply a scripting language. After doing some research found a couple commmon themes out there:

• PHP & Java Both Scale
• Java is complex - PHP can be complex but simpler to jump into
• Java & PHP both need to be planned out for larger websites
• PHP is much better for small websites
• Language Shootout says Java is Faster, PHP uses less memory.

At the end of the day, it seems that the underlying technology is simply a tool and should be focused on what your developers at hand are comfortable with.

References

• PHP vs Java IMHO
• OnJava: PHP Scalability
• Java versus PHP Shootout

technorati tags:java, php

I know this sounds like a horror movie, but I promise this event won’t be that scary. Schools like Berkeley are offering blogging journalism classes and we are not even RSS feeding our school newspaper!

Hope you can make it, look forwards to presenting.
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