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Just a quick note: I'm back after two weeks in hospital so I apologize for delays on answering your letters, guys. I suppose it will take several days to answer all your mails, so please be patient.

Also I wish you be healthy and be strong enough to follow a few productivity tips.

This article will show you how to useJavaScript debugger in Google Chrome browser.

@var variable type hint is very useful, but adding it a little bit complex: usually you need to type the class name or copy/paste it from somewhere:

/* @var $controller Zend_Controller_Front */

But with Eclipse PDT templates you can simplify this and add an autocomplete for variable name and class name:

Happy dreams of PHP developers come true. Yesterday I received a letter from Eclipse PDT bugzilla with notification that my proposition about autocomplete for properties that submitted more than a year ago is implemented in PDT 2.0 nightly builds.

From time to time Sun changes the way on how JDK can be installed silently, without user interaction. I've noticed that in the 6u10 update the silent install method is different from 6u7 so here is two command lines for installing and uninstalling JDK from command line:

Install:
C:\> C:\jdk-6u10-rc-bin-b28-windows-amd64-21_jul_2008.exe /s /v/qn

Install to specific folder and specify additional parameters:
C:\> C:\jdk-6u10-rc-bin-b28-windows-amd64-21_jul_2008.exe /s /v"/qn INSTALLDIR="""C:\path to folder\Java""" IEXPLORER=1 MOZILLA=1 REBOOT=Suppress ADDLOCAL=ALL"

Uninstall:

Andrii Nikitin is one of the MySQL support engineers located in Ukraine has asked for help. His son Ivan, who is 2 1/2, is in need of a bone marrow transplant operation.

More details:

http://www.mysql.com/about/help-ivan.html
http://www.phpcult.com/blog/andrii-nikitis-son-needs-our-help/
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Andrii+Nikitin%22+Ivan+MySQL

Even the small amount can help.

I've created the banner, maybe you can add and link to that page:
http://www.mysql.com/about/help-ivan.html

Just to make some fun at weekend: a nice animation that was created with CANVAS tag and JavaScript. Just view source to investigate how it is created. Will post a source with a little more details soon.

JavaScript is a trademark of Sun Microsystems and it was used for technology implemented by Netscape Communications and introduced in the Netscape Communicator Web browser in December 1995.

The first JavaScript language specification, described in ECMA-262 standard, was adopted by the ECMA General Assembly of June 1997 and the “ECMAScript” name means this standard. There are three editions of this standard, known as ES1, ES2 and ES3, and fourth edition is currently under development. The fourth edition is known as JavaScript 2 or ES4 and it describes several very important language enhancements such as classes, packages and namespaces and other features that aid developers in their work. ES4 is expected to be finished by October 2008.

New release of FireFox have inspired a lot of FireFox-related news and predictions. While I'm quite sceptical about the prediction made by Shayne Tilley about IE disappearing in 2013 it is interesting to see how many Alex@Net visitors use IE and FireFox during last year. What I can say... Viva FireFox!

FireFox 3 is great but there are a few minor issues that are frequently asked:

• Where is FireBug?
• How to run different versions of FireFox in the same time?

Answers are below.