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Why Facebook's HipHop for PHP is important

Facebook formally announced a long-rumoured project it has been working on called HipHop for PHP. Read more »

IBM and Microsoft back Zend's cloud API plan

IBM and Microsoft have added their backing to a plan by developer tools specialist Zend Technologies to create an open-source application-programming interface that would make it easier for organisations to switch cloud providers. Read more »

PHP, Python, Samba get security tick of approval

Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects. Read more »

Flaws found in open source codes

A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors. Read more »

Rapid app development hits Delphi for PHP 2.0

CodeGear has launched the Delphi for PHP 2.0 integrated development environment to improve its developer tools suite for building interactive Web applications. Read more »

PHP, Perl and Python pass Homeland Security test

Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects. Read more »

Oracle beefs up PHP driver

Oracle announced on Wednesday the enhancement and preview release of an upgraded Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) driver for PHP. Read more »

Eclipse embraces PHP

The Eclipse Foundation has released Eclipse PHP Development Tools, software that it hopes will open Eclipse up to the millions of PHP Web developers. Read more »

PHP 4 on death row

Version 4 of the popular Web scripting language is on borrowed time, forcing developers to the less successful version 5 Read more »

PHP exploit code plants itself in GIF

Security researchers have found PHP exploit code embedded in a GIF on a major image-hosting site. Read more »

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Quickly Install a LAMP server on Ubuntu

Here are some quick and easy steps to installing a LAMP server on a running Ubuntu machine. Read more »

Taking on Twitter with open source software

One service that seemed to come out of nowhere and get instant buy-in from influential digerati around the Web was Identica, an open source microblogging alternative from Montreal resident Evan Prodromou, who in 2003 had co-founded Wikitravel. Read more »

Getting started with Delphi for PHP

This article guides you through a brief tour of CodeGear's Delphi for PHP, a visual IDE for developing applications in PHP. Read more »

Why traditionalists should take Web developers seriously

There used to be a sharp distinction between application developers and Web developers. This made sense when technologies such as Perl/CGI, classic ASP, standard JSP, and PHP ruled the Web development roost. But this distinction is becoming less relevant. Read more »

How do I ... recursively scan directories with PHP's DirectoryIterators?

One of PHP5's most interesting new features is the addition of Iterators, a collection of ready-made interfaces designed to help in navigating and processing hierarchical data structures. Read more »

Powerful Web Services with PHP and SOAP

We show you how to take your Web applications to the next level with SOAP, the "powerhouse of Web services", building high-end Web services with pure PHP. Read more »

Generating PDF files with PHP and FPDF

This tutorial provides an overview of the FPDF functionality and two examples using the PHP object-oriented approach to get you started with building your own PDFs. Read more »

Troubleshoot Apache with these tips

The Apache Web server is well-proven, but can still offer an administrator headaches from time to time when things go wrong. Read more »

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The Web needs an overhaul

Rasmus Lerdorf, the father of PHP, says that the Web is inherently broken and needs an overhaul to the entire infrastructure: browsers, servers and scripting languages. Read more »

One virtual machine to rule them all

The Java platform can be used to interpret more than just the Java language -- it has expanded its coverage to include Ruby, Python with PHP to follow shortly. Read more »

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Security on the Web

Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP, discusses security on the Web. He explains how almost all sites are vulnerable and why the entire structure of the Web needs an overhaul. Read more »

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Adobe creates 3D view of subjects

At the 6sight conference in Monterey, California, John Loiacono, senior vice president for Adobe Creative Solutions, demonstrates developing technology that constructs a 3D view of a subject from images collected on the Internet. Read more »

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Zoho takes on Microsoft, Google

ZDNet editor-in-chief Dan Farber and Webware.com's editor Rafe Needleman sit down with AdventNet's CEO Sridhar Vembu to find out about Zoho's office productivity suite and how the CEO plans to compete against Microsoft and Google. Farber and Needleman then analyse the company's business model and determine Zoho's chance for success in the emerging Web 2.0 office software market. Read more »

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Rusty's message to C++ programmers

Rusty Russell presents a community service announcement to all C++ programmers Read more »

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The future of C

Rusty Russell discusses how multiple cores and the increasing size of computer memory will affect the future direction of C. Read more »

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Google goes Native

[blogs:syslog] -- Google's Native Client exits the research stage and goto statements make their way to PHP 5.3. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

If PHP then goto is the future

[blogs:betaliving] -- Few things can spark more religious fervour amongst programmers than the mention of a goto statement. Read more »

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Tools for the Semantic Web

[blogs:webanatomy] -- This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. Read more »

Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

[blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

How to Lifestream with WordPress

[blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Lifestreaming is the act of collecting and publishing all of your social networking activities in one stream. Here's the easy way to get started using your own install of WordPress. Read more »

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The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security

[blogs:webanatomy] -- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. Read more »

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Google launches Apps Marketplace

Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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Microsoft showcases new NUIs

TechFest, Microsoft's internal even took place this week with researchers showcasing some new interfaces the company is working on. Read more »

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Google to dump Gears

Google is about to pull the plug on its Gears project, while Mozilla plans to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support in future versions of Firefox. Read more »

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