Webopoly is a new Ajax-based monopoly-like game written in PHP where players can trade properties like web companies, or products. It supports multi-player games, in-game chat and a variety of other features, all without the use of any Flash or Java. The games uses many JavaScript libraries such taconite, soundmanager2, and greybox. Geeky and very addictive game ! Players can create their own private or public games and invite friends or colleagues to join.
PHP-Québec, Montréal-Python, Ruby Montréal, W3Qc, and OWASP Montréal are organizing the first edition of the ConFoo.ca conference, which will be held in Montreal on March 10th through 12th at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel. With over 500 expected attendees, ConFoo.ca is the largest Web development conference in North America.
We are looking for the best speakers willing to share their experience and skills with programmers, managers, marketers and decision makers. The conference is divided into two parts:
A technical part, encompassing different aspects of Web development: PHP,Python, Ruby, security, project management, CMSs and frameworks,databases, systems administration, Web standards, accessibility and agile methods.
A decision-making part: referencing (SEO), Web marketing analysis, and social networking.
Presenters can decide to present in English or French. Presentations are roughly one hour long. These may be recorded for later broadcast in digital format.
All relevant details concerning the conference are available on the website confoo.ca.
Johannesburg, South Africa, September, 21 2009 – MobiCash may conveniently be described as the next generation of mobile payment system. When it comes to mobile payment options, nothing is more convenient than MobiCash cell phone payment! MobiCash is changing the rules in the contactless electronic transaction business and generates very large opportunities!
Patrick Ngabonziza Gordon, Founder / CEO, stated: “Think about it: No more Wallet! No more Check! No more Plastic Cards! No more POS Terminals! No more Wired Networks! No more handle of any Paper Money! All you have to do is to make a call and your mobile phone signs for you!”
Mr. Gordon went on to say: “With just a mobile phone number and a digit PIN and a free MobiCash account, MobiCash customers can make secure cashless transactions. All phones can make payments using MobiCash no matter what phone model or network operator. You do not need to modify your phone in order to use MobiCash. Due to its simplicity MobiCash mobile payment has wide appeal, is easy to deploy and open to everyone – there are no complicated software downloads necessary and no restrictions to enrolment.”
After over 25,000 downloads of its previous version in just five short months, the XOOPS Project, world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), is aggressively building on this success and has made available a release candidate of its award winning software – XOOPS 2.4.0.
This release focused on major usability and productivity improvements. Some of the major changes are:
* new user friendly Admin GUI
* new mechanism to modularize and extend Core via Preloads
* central support for jQuery
* improved Installer
* WCAG 2.0 – Sight Impaired Assisted Forms
The new Admin GUI and the Preloads extension mechanism are the highlight of this release. The key for this new release was an active collaboration of XOOPS developers from around the world: China, France, UK, USA, Germany, Peru, Libya, Belgium, Netherlands, and several others. The worldwide XOOPS community is one of its strength, resulting in a quick translation of new releases into over 20 languages.
XOOPS has not only a very loyal base, as the number of downloads suggests, but is also highly respected in the industry. In 2008 it was a finalist in SourceForge Community Awards and in the CMS Awards by Packt Publishing. It also won the prestigious 2008 China Open Source Software Contest Award.
If you use exclusively IIS in your web development and want to implement something that run under apache, or if you want to migrate a solution from linux to windows, there is a product called Helicon Ape which provides apache emulation on windows environment.
Helicon Ape is a software solution that emulates Apache execution environment on Microsoft IIS. It literally implements Apache configuration model (like .htaccess and httpd.conf files) and all most demanded Apache modules in a single IIS add-on, not only making IIS compatible with Apache, but also extending its functionality by a number of essential features.
Benefits of Helicon Ape :
You can find many interesting usage of Helicon Ape over their blog. Helicon Ape is available for download as a 45 days trial, server license start from $175. The company have a similar product ISAPI_Rewrite which provides Apache .htaccess mod_rewrite compatible URL rewriter for Microsoft IIS.
