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PHP comes with a number of options to help developers dynamically generate PDF files from within their applications. The Haru and PDF lib extensions offer a complete API for dynamic PDF generation, and there also exist a number of open-source PHP components that can be used for the same purpose.

Mozilla Labs is now mirroring open source to GitHub: http://github.com/mozillalabsRead the blog post or check out the repositories on GitHub.Rumor has it we'll being see more from Mozilla on GitHub in the future, too!

I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the Pro Git blog. If you're interested in using Git notes for something, you might be interested to know that GitHub now supports them and will display them on your commit pages.

I just released and deployed Jekyll 0.7.0 to GitHub Pages today. This release includes support for SmartyPants via RDiscount for Markdown files. To get all those nice curly quotation marks, em/en dashes, and elipses, simply make sure your Jekyll repo's _config.yml contains the following lines:

Dependency injection is a technique that allows for loosely coupled objects within a software application. Generally if an object requires access to the functionality of another it would be instantiated internally leading to tightly coupled systems.

The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of Zend Framework 1.10.8 , our eighth maintenance release in the 1.10 series. This release includes around 22 bug fixes. A special reminder to those users of Zend_Service_Twitter , please ensure you upgrade to 1.10.6, 1.10.7, or 1.10.8 ASAP. These releases introduce a change in the Zend_Service_Twitter API that enforces the use of OAuth by default when using methods that require authentication.

Zend Framework extension, which provides classes for using and implementing Gravatar’s services and features.

kinisoftware ha creado un vídeo en español explicando como preparar un entorno de desarrollo Grails utilizando también Git (con GitHub en remoto) y SpringSource Tool Suite.kinisoftware gracias!

We are actively recruiting participants to take place in a developer event (“Dev Derby”) that pits one language against others. It is a day-long programming challenge where teams of developers work to create an application serving a real-world need.

When I venture out into the real world, the one not populated with developers, I get a lot of strange looks and odd stares when I talk. Apparently there are a lot of people out there who don’t grok grep, have never been slashdotted, and can’t tell a brown number from a WAG . I saw r0ml give a talk one year about domain specific languages and how they are important.