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I was a poet, and didn't know it
Or, how I discovered I was a server scripter after all

Server Scripting Books

I have some confessions to make. While I was really caught up with the introduction of the Web and learned HTML (it wasn't that hard, and I leaned a lot on programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver), I never put the effort into learning the popular server language PHP. The syntax was byzantine and unforgiving. I'm not someone who considers Notepad.exe an "IDE." And my brain refuses to memorize stuff like "print date ('g:I a l F j');" - for some reason it just doesn't seem to fit.

My first moments with on-Rev changed my thinking about server scripting. "Oh!" I said to myself. "So I could write server scripts with this!"

Let me explain why this product is so very different from my previous forays into server scripting.

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RunRevLive.09 Simulcast

Attend the RunRevLive.09 developers conference live from your living room, office, den, classroom, or even the beach! For the first time ever, we're offering live streaming of the event so that you can be a part of it even if you can't get to Edinburgh this September.

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Creating Tcal: Part 2

This article covers how to enable alarms called from the calendar application. Getting them working on both Mac and Windows, complete with extensive code snippets. Learn about sockets, shell and more.

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FMPro Migrator

View the recording of our highly successful Webinar on converting from Filemaker to Revolution using FMPro Migrator.

Also part three in our series following how to convert from Filemaker to Valentina - learn how to migrate relationships.

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