I decided to switch to Java2 because the php development team knows themselves that php is not the future. Dont ask me why ? I mean I think php is been developed towards what Java is today. Well they claim they have web in mind. But I doubt so. Java is not stagnant, it is growing, besides doing what most programming language of today such as C# , C++ do. Infact it does everything depending on which of its advanced feature you decide to implement.
The problem with Java is just that it is not opensource, and it requires a handful number of resources, but anywayz its development suite is available for free, and you can develop without spending a dime. Hosting also on such platform is hard to come by, but available.
My line of future work, which would involve developing or supervising the development of Enterprise related apps, for my setup requires me to go for a very established language, and Java just fits in perfectly.
Php is just trying to fit into that place. Introduction of php5 into the market solves one of the main feature, the OOP approach to programming, how about the different environments?
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When it comes to customising open source scripts from ecommerce websites, to accounting systems, to fit into
any template designed the complexity in most of them is worth talking about. I was recently customising a new template for oscommerce using sts template
system which enables you to use defined variables to show content in an html format, well it took me averagely 24 hours to customise the style, boxes, session links and headers and footers to match what i needed. What i
realised is that at the beginning it looks difficult, but when you relax and see the patterns of the codings, and read
all the documentation, everything looks standard. But then again proficiency is needed in terms of knowing the language
such as php and also even cascading style sheets for the outlook.
Presently i have customised and tweaked oscommerce and phpcoin to the extreme of it, and i am quiet satisfied with the output.
An example of the phpcoin tweak i did is located at http://www.nairahost.com/orders/ and for the oscommerce you can
view it at www.ikejavillage.com. Also going to do for my blog, but for wordpress isnt really a big deal, because its quite straight forward.Well i guess thats what triggered the starting of Naijadesign fully, but i am still
looking for graphic designers to help with the design, so that i can concentrate on the coding.
And also not forgetting i am looking for clients, so if you happen to be interested in my work, just drop me a mail.
So i am really back to web design kindda. hehehe.
I would also try to start entering tutorials on customisation techniques for this scripts.
the comparison says it all. 
from (http://otn.oracle.com/pub/articles/hull_asp.html )
Table 1
| | PHP 4 | PHP 5 | ASP.NET |
| Software price | free | free | free |
| Platform price | free | free | $$ |
| Speed | strong | strong | weak |
| Efficiency | strong | strong | weak |
| Security | strong | strong | strong |
| Platform | strong | strong | weak (IIS only) |
| Platform | any | any | win32 (IIS only) |
| Source available | yes | yes | no |
| Exceptions | no | yes | yes |
| OOP | weak | strong | strong |
hum why did i use the word future? i dont know . perhaps i have finally settled. no more playing with my databases and other stuffs. hum . so what next. yeah still thinking about my guestbook. designing actually. i want something simple. by tonight i would upload it. the rest is quite simple. like the about me section. the links section have to do some modification . um watelse my pictures. still doubting whether i am really gonna put something in it. apart from that everything is just fine. 
anywayz thats all for now and stay tuned for more contents. thank you.