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Latest Updates from MySQL AB

MySQL Sunday at Oracle OpenWorld 2010

Posted 4 weeks ago

Join us for MySQL Sunday, a half-day technical conference packed with the latest on MySQL, on September 19, 2010. You’ll also hear what's new and what's next directly from Edward Screven, Oracle Chief Corporate Architect, and other visionary technologists at the "MySQL Fireside Chat" general session. [Link]

Oracle Announces Immediate Availability of the Latest Release of MySQL Enterprise

Posted 8 weeks ago

New Release Includes MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.2 with Advanced Query Performance Monitoring, Helps Enable Cost Savings and IT Efficiencies [Link]

WebSEO

Yahoo! y Microsoft juntando fuerzas

Posted 11 days ago

Yahoo y Microsoft han anunciado su Search Alliance, el sistema que intentará competir con el omnipresente Adwords de Google. De hecho, cuando se implemente Search Alliance, Yahoo utilizará el algoritmo de Bing en sus resultados de búsqueda, tal como anuncian en el Blog de Yahoo Search. Aunque ambas empresas mantendrán su aspecto actual como buscador y la experiencia de usuario … [Link]

¿Qué es Google TV?

Posted 7 weeks ago

Para aquellos que habéis oido hablar sobre el nuevo Google TV, la última producto de Google en colaboración con Sony, Logitech y Intel, y os quedan dudas sobre de qué se trata y su funcionamiento, aquí tenéis un par de vídeos que explican con detalle en que consiste. Más información en http://www.google.com/tv/ [Link]

ProgrammableWeb

23 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, Google Wave, Twitter and Yahoo

Posted 8 hours ago

This past week 24 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 23 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google Wave and Tweetmeme. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Twilio and Twilio SMS. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (5 … [Link]

Gowalla’s Write API: the Experience is Distributed

Posted 30 hours ago

GowallaLocation-sharing service Gowalla is preparing to launch its long-awaited write API (our Gowalla API profile). The move could makes its platform as desirable as its main competitor, FourSquare. With it, comes the need to relinquish a bit of control of the user experience, something Gowalla has considered an important factor of its success. ReadWriteWeb quotes the Gowalla mailing list: Gowalla developer … [Link]

WordPress News

WordPress 3.0.1

Posted 2 days ago

After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku: Three dot oh dot one Bug fixes to make you smile Update your WordPress This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best … [Link]

PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement

Posted 8 days ago

Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the requirements for running WordPress. Now … [Link]

drupal.org

Case Study: www.aidshilfe.de relaunch

Posted 3 days ago

The Deutsche Aids-Hilfe (DAH) is the leading German non-governmental organization that deals with the concerns of people living with HIV/AIDS and helps raise awareness of effective HIV prevention techniques. As the governing body for more than 120 local AIDS service organizations, it supports this work at many different levels. The DAH website, aidshilfe.de, is one of the organization’s main communication channels. … [Link]

Ticket Cake – An Event Ticketing Website

Posted 6 days ago

TicketCake TicketCake.com is an event ticketing and promotion start-up that recently launched using Drupal as its framework. The website features an innovative design by White Label Graphics which balances functionality and simplicity. Because Drupal has many ways to display dynamic content, finding the right way to implement a design can be a problem in itself. To overcome this obstacle, the Ticket … [Link]

Webmonkey

Test Drive Your Type With Google Font Preview

Posted 2 days ago

Google launched a new web-based tool Wednesday that helps you configure, test and easily embed one of the company’s free fonts into your web pages. The Font Previewer lets you pick one of the open source fonts from Google’s Font Library, then tweak the size, spacing and decorations using simple sliders and buttons. Once you have the type the way … [Link]

Typekit Gets an API

Posted 3 days ago

Font startup Typekit introduced an API Thursday that lets web programmers generate kits from the Typekit library behind the scenes. The company has previously only offered the option of picking fonts and generating kits using the web-based tool on its site. But by releasing an API, it’s giving people the option of building Typekit into their own apps or simply extending … [Link]

Dev Shed – RSS Feeds

Web Services: MagpieRSS

Posted 3 days ago

In this second part of a five-part series on Web Services, you will learn how to install and use MagpieRSS, a popular RSS parser. This article is excerpted from chapter 20 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702). – MagpieRSS MagpieRSS (Magpie for short) is … [Link]

Asirra Captcha PHP Integration

Posted 4 days ago

Asirra (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access) is a captcha technology developed by Microsoft. This article will explain how it's different from other captcha systems, the benefits of using Asirra, and how to set it up on your PHP-based website. – Unlike other types of captcha that utilize difficult text obfuscation techniques (such as Google reCaptcha), this system utilizes … [Link]

A List Apart

JavaScript Minification Part II

Posted 12 days ago

Variable naming can be a source of coding angst for humans trying to understand code. Once you’re sure that a human doesn’t need to interpret your JavaScript code, variables simply become generic placeholders for values. Nicholas C. Zakas shows us how to further minify JavaScript by replacing local variable names with the YUI Compressor. [Link]

SVG with a little help from Raphaël

Posted 12 days ago

Want to make fancy, interactive, scalable vector graphics (SVGs) that look beautiful at any resolution and degrade with grace? Brian Suda urges you to consider Raphaël for your SVG heavy lifting. [Link]

WebDeveloper.com

Online Checklist?

Posted 53 minutes ago

Forum: HTML Posted By: Rubberpik Post Time: 07-31-2010 at 11:16 PM [Link]

Can Someone Help Me Fix This Code…Please…

Posted 3 hours ago

Forum: JavaScript Posted By: ksailorgirl1 Post Time: 07-31-2010 at 09:33 PM [Link]

PHP.net news & announcements

PHP 5.3.3 Released!

Posted 10 days ago

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.3. This release focuses on improving the stability and security of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 100 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Backwards incompatible change: Methods with the same name as the last element … [Link]

PHP 5.2.14 Released!

Posted 10 days ago

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.14. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, some of which are security related. This release marks the end of the active support for PHP 5.2. Following this release the PHP 5.2 series will receive no further … [Link]

Webitect

The Benefits of Running a Blog as a Freelancer (Tips Included)

Posted 11 months ago

1. It is a New Way to Explore As freelancers, we have nobody telling us what to do — or what to learn. We must find a way to explore new things on our own, and sometimes new discoveries are a “backdrop” to our other daily tasks. When you make exploring something new an actual task, it gets done, and … [Link]

Create a Graceful jQuery Tabbed Widget in 5 Easy Steps

Posted 11 months ago

The great beauty of the jQuery library lies in its effortless selection and manipulation structure, which makes rearranging static elements into dynamic organizations tons easier. Today, I’ll show you how use these abilities to build one of those popular tabbed widgets for displaying blog info (recent posts, popular posts, etc.). Of course, for this application we could use jQuery UI’s … [Link]

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  • 1 JohnRoss // Mar 23, 2010 at %I:%M %p

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