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Zend Framework 1.7.0 Released

Today, we released Zend Framework 1.7.0. This release features AMF support, JQuery support, and Twitter support, among numerous other offerings.

EllisLab hiring to the support team

EllisLab is hiring an ExpressionEngine Technical Support Specialist.

In Flanders Fields

Thank you for your brave and selfless sacrifice. It means more to me, Canada and the world then we usually say.In Flanders FieldsIn Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.

Reading and Writing MP3 and Photo Metadata with PECL

Let’s take a look at two extensions can help you organize and catalog your digital media collection so that it’s easier to navigate and search.

BambooInvoice featured in December Linux Pro Magazine

What a fun holiday surprise!  Linux Pro Magazine has a wonderful article in its December issue called Smooth Solution: BambooInvoice web-based invoicing solution, which is (not surprisingly) an article about one users experience installi

Jonathan Wage - New in symfony 1.2: Doctrine goodies

Jonathan Wage has written an excellent post on the symfony-project blog showing how easy it is to get a new symfony project up and running with symfony 1.2 and Doctrine ORM.

Paul Reinheimer: 20/20 6:40 at php|works

Paul Reinheimer just wrote a post on his blog announcing that Thursday evening’s entertainment at php|works is being crowd-sourced.

Lorna Mitchell: Introduction to Zend_Db

Lorna Mitchell, the senior European correspondent for phpwomen.org, has posted a good piece on her blog about what she learned when she delved into Zend_Db.

Working with RAR, LZF and BZ2 Compression Formats in PHP

When it comes to dealing with different file formats, it’s hard to faze PHP. XML documents, PDF files, JPEG images, MP3 media…you name it and, chances are, there’s a PHP extension to handle it. And so it is with compression formats like RAR, LZF and Bzip2 – although these archive formats are far less common today than the ubiquitous TAR and ZIP formats, they are still actively used by many applications and projects, and continue to be supported in PHP via PECL extensions.

Fluid, Campfire, DataMapper and useful links

In no particular order, here are some things that I’ve found interesting, useful, or funny.  Mostly useful.FluidA Site Specific Browser (SSB) that you can use to run web applications in.  I use it for BambooInvoice, ExpressionEngine and Campfire.  It rocks my socks.  Find it at http://fluidapp.com/.