What's New on ahref.com (8/16/2000)
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NEW ARTICLE
PHP 3 and 4 Incompatibilities: A Closer Look

Are you thinking of upgrading to PHP 4? Have you done so already?
Most of your code should translate fine, but there are some things
to look out for. Read about the incompatibilities you may
encounter at:

<http://www.ahref.com/guides/technology/200008/0815piou.html>

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NEW ARTICLES ELSEWHERE

Recent news articles and tutorials from other web publications.

at ZDNet:
GNOME Throws Down the Gauntlet
A number of open-source vendors have banded together to launch the
GNOME Foundation, which aims to provide a viable open-source desktop
alternative to Microsoft's Windows and Office. (8/15/2000)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2615998,00.html>

at Wired News:
Legal Tips For Your 'Sucks' Site
Some guidelines on how sites that parody or criticize corporations can
stay out of legal trouble. (8/14/2000)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38056,00.html>

at Mercury Center:
Internet Users Come of Age; More Women Online
According to a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive, more women
than men are online; more men than women buy online; and 76 million
Americans are "active" Internet users. (8/11/2000)
<http://www.mercurycenter.com/breaking/docs/080801.htm>

at Web Review:
XML Tutorial 2: Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
How to write an XML Document Type Definition. (8/11/2000)
<http://webreview.com/pub/2000/08/11/feature/index02.html>

at ZDNet Developer:
Intro to Cookie Mastery
How to create, read, and generally manipulate cookies using Javascript.
(8/11/2000)
<http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2614711,00.html>

at internet.com:
ICANN Taps Nominees
ICANN has picked (and announced the names of) 18 candidates to fill
five at-large director positions in the organization; over 200 people
were nominated or self-nominated. (8/8/2000)
<http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,2171,3_428661,00.html>

at WDVL:
Flash Forward 2000
A review of the the Flash Forward 2000 conference, focusing on
the technologies and products that will be most important to
Flash designers of the future. (8/7/2000)
<http://wdvl.internet.com/Reviews/Graphics/FlashForward/>

at Salon.com:
A Hacker Crackdown?
Creators of controversial software infringement (Napster, Freenet, etc.)
wonder if they'll be held legally liable for how others use their work;
other programmers find themselves shying away from projects they might
get sued for. (8/7/2000)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/08/07/yoink_napster/>

at ZDNet:
Specter of Web Attacks Looms Anew
At the 2000 DefCon conference in Las Vegas, white-hat hacker Simple Nomad,
who last year anticipated the denial-of-service (DOS) attacks that hit
large commercial sites in February 2000, revealed a new blueprint for
untraceable DOS attacks. (8/6/2000)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2612050,00.html>

at Business Week:
The Web's Still-Unfulfilled Personalization Promise
Despite all the talk about website personalization, few sites have
implemented it well. It's costly ("The average personalization system
costs about $1.5 million..."), time-consuming, and the ROI is
hard to measure. (8/4/2000)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2000/nf2000084_506.htm>

at Web Review:
XML Tutorial 1: Well-Formed XML Documents
How to write a simple, well-formed XML document. (8/4/2000)
<http://webreview.com/pub/2000/08/04/feature/index04.html>

at Salon.com:
Dottie Downturn Gets Mean
More dot-com etiquette advice from Dottie Downturn. "There is usually
only one proper response when a friend asks you what you think of her
new haircut, new boyfriend or new Web site. Lie." (8/3/2000)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/08/03/deardottie3/>


You can find links to external articles and tutorials at
<http://www.ahref.com/index/newarticles.html>.

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NEW SITES

Some more new sites in the Web Index:

Civil Society Internet Forum  
An international organization dedicated to democratic
participation in Internet governance and citizens' Internet
rights. 
<http://www.cpsr.org/internetdemocracy/csif/>

CommunityBuilding.com  
A site giving advice on how to build an online community. 
<http://communitybuilding.com/>

SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization Tips  
Tips for getting better performance from Access and
Microsoft's SQL Server.
<http://www.sql-server-performance.com/>


You can always see more of the new sites in the Web Index at:
<http://www.ahref.com/index/newsites.html>

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