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HvitRavn writes
"SolarPHP 1.0 stable was released by Paul M. Jones today. SolarPHP is an application framework and library, and is a serious contender alongside Zend Framework, Symphony, and similar frameworks. SolarPHP has in the recent years been the cause of heated debate in the PHP community due to provocative benchmark results posted on Paul M. Jones' blog."
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snydeq writes
"InfoWorld's Rick Grehen provides an in-depth comparative review of eight PHP IDEs: ActiveState's Komodo IDE, CodeLobster PHP Edition, Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT), MPSoftware's phpDesigner, NetBeans IDE for PHP, NuSphere's PhpED, WaterProof's PHPEdit, and Zend Studio. 'All of these PHP toolkits offer strong support for the other languages and environments (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL database) that a PHP developer encounters. The key differences we discovered were in the tools they provide (HTML inspector, SQL management system) for various tasks, the quality of their documentation, and general ease-of-use,' Grehen writes.'"
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johnsonav writes:
Steve Jobs has announced he will be taking a "medical leave of absence" until the end of June. His medical issues have proven to be worse than thought. Tim Cook, the current COO, will be taking over Job's responsibilities.
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thefickler writes:
Mac users will continue to see the Internet as it was intended, thanks to the renewal of a font licensing agreement between Microsoft and Apple. At TypeCon2007 Microsoft and Apple announced they have renewed their font licensing agreement, giving Apple users ongoing use of the latest versions of Microsoft Windows core fonts.
Back in 1996 Microsoft started the "Core fonts for the Web" initiative. The idea of this initiative was to create a a standard pack of fonts that would be present on all or most computers, allowing web pages to be displayed consistently on different computers. While the project was terminated in 2002, some of the fonts defined as core fonts for the web have gone on to become known as "web safe fonts", and are therefore widely used by Internet developers.
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General Lee's Peking writes:
From this article:
Sun Microsystems' Jonathan Schwartz said on Wednesday that ZFS would be "the file system" for Leopard, succeeding HFS+.
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ahbi writes:
Today it was reported that Jenni Engebretsen was named "Deputy CEO for Public Affairs," for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver — but she is better known as the Director of Communications for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The RIAA is the most hated "company" in America, according to a recent poll on the Consumerist. The RIAA's campaign of suing thousands of American music lovers has been the single biggest PR disaster in recent industrial history — which is why Engebretsen's employer beat out Halliburton, Blackwater and Wal-Mart for the coveted "Worst Company" slot.
Engebretsen's PR approach is centered around stonewalling and avoiding difficult press calls.
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walrus2517 writes:
I'm sure everyone has seen the headlines the past few days about the White House "accidentally" deleting quite a few e-mails (rumored at nearly 5 million), many regarding the 8 attorneys fired by AG Gonzalez. More details seem to be uncovered everyday, including the excuse that they "lost" their e-mails when upgrading from Outlook 2002 to 2003. These "accidental" deletions and the incredible amount of time the White House is taking to recover them has led many to speculate, including Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who went so far as to say "I've got a teenage kid in my neighborhood that can go get 'em for them". I'm not an IT guy, so I was wondering if the /. community could help me understand how difficult it really is to uncover deleted e-mails? It seems as though government agencies usually have no problem getting deleted material off of people's computer when they want, so what is taking so long?
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Snowgen writes:
In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Wilkes University issued a press release stating that "...over the next three years, Wilkes University will become an all-Mac campus." Another article covering the same story states that "Apple overtook Dell in the UK education market as report indicated gaining popularity among students at college campuses." If that wasn't enough, "Apple also announced that it landed two particularly large educational institutional sales during the September quarter, but did not provide details."
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thefickler writes:
Malware coders relax. While new security features in Windows Vista will make it harder for you to develop worms that target operating system vulnerabilities, Symantec is tipping that you'll turn your attention to other vulnerabilities, like Vista's new Windows SideBar and gadgets.
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Zecheus writes:
The US Copyright Office has released their new set of rates for the payment of royalties by Internet Radio. The new rates are high enough to put the nascent internet radio industry out of business. Checkout the blog of Radio Paradise founder Bill Goldsmith for an operator's perspective and plea for help.
