“The War Is Over, and Linux Has Won” - REALLY?

I refreshed Slashdot tonight to find this headline on the first page. The headline comes from the article found below.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=837
Have I been under a rock for the last few years? I didn’t notice Linux over throwing the server or desktop market. Is there some other “war” that Linux has won? The article above states [...]

PHP Fatal error: Class ‘DomDocument’

The following error occurs when trying DomDocument Object in PHP for XML operations: PHP Fatal error: Class ‘DomDocument’

Solution:
PHP.net Documentation
Introduction
The DOM extension is the replacement for the DOM XML extension from PHP 4. The extension still contains many old functions, but they should no longer be used. In particular, functions that are not object-oriented [...]

Reading and Writing CSV Files with Python

Reading CSV files can be a real pain, especially when the file is badly formatted. Accounting for badly formatted files can be difficult and can cause a lot of headaches.
Python has a very useful library to help with parsing and writing CSV files. The library is not totally full proof, but it does account [...]

Reading and Writing XML Documents with PHP (Using DOM)

Todays entry will be on reading and writing XML using the Document Object Model (DOM) (located in the PHP libraries), since it is the easiest way to read/write a well-formed XML file. The DOM library reads the entire XML document into memory and represents it as a tree of nodes.
If you are interested in [...]

A Short Introduction to the Basics of XML

XML is one of those technologies that have been around for a while, but no one knew what to do with it, until a few years ago. The biggest complaint I’ve ever heard about XML is that most new programmers just don’t know what to do with it.
XML definition: XML (Wikipedia.org)
The Extensible [...]