This is some pretty cool application!
http://www.valil.com/winfx/

3D chess, it's just like a normal desktop application.

Let me know if you win, I've lost about 5 times already!

alexgeek

I've been using PHP for ages and then slightly after that I started learning C# for desktop applications.

Recently I've tried ASP.NET (C#) and I happy to say that I quite like it!
With PHP I'd put all my code into objects for easy access etc., but accessing these classes would mean putting an include at the top of every page or specifying the magic __autoload() function... it was okay but it was.. time consuming.

In ASP.NET I just put my classes in the App_Data folder...

alexgeek

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Is it just me or are there millions of these lately?
Half the advertising I see is "meet a girl in your area". Seriously, how can they make money? There's thousands of dating sites.
I see no point in creating one, even with loads of advertising the already established sites will succeed.
And the worst thing about these social networking sites and dating sites is that they all use the same downloadable system.
To put it in a welsh way "it...

alexgeek

A lot of people seem to use them but a lot of experienced PHP developers discourage the use of short tags for two main reasons.

Firstly, the normal php tags are:
And the following are short tags:

The first are for those too lazy to put php after <?.
The second it to quickly echo a variable. E.G, the following:
...

alexgeek

A lot of people seem to think that AJAX is just snazzy javascript like mootools and lightbox.
It's not, it's a special way of retrieving information from a server without reloading the page.
Just wanted to clear that up!

alexgeek