PHP 5.0.1 is now available. If you are running WordPress and had a segfault issues the new release will make you happy….
Category Archives: Web development
Mono 1.0 released
Novell released version 1.0 of Mono today. Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET framework for use on Linux, Unix, MacOS X and Windows system. Release notes….
Visual Studio 2005 Express
Microsoft released beta versions of its Visual Studio 2005 product, including a new line of low cost Express products. All downloads are free for now, but Microsoft does plan to charge for the products in the near future….
BitTorrent 2 protocol
The P2P Weblog posted an e-mail from Bram Cohen listing the some of the features of the BitTorrent 2 protocol. Merkle hash trees, UDP trackers, and more….
Wired 12.06 : Cracking the Code to Romance
Annalee Newitz writes about geek approaches to online romance in the June 2004 issue of Wired magazine. The article starts on page 156, and is now online. Christopher Filkins and his FOAF-based Dating Syndicate. Marc Canter’s People Aggregator is mentioned as another dating engine built on FOAF. Kevin Burton is named “The Sniffer” for his use of AIM Sniffer to pick up women in wireless Internet enabled San Francisco cafés. Jonathan Moore is profiled as “The Stalker” for his use Unix shell scripts and Netcat to pull e-mail addresses from wireless networks and match the data with a Friendster profile….
New Technorati APIs and SDK
Technorati released a new version of its APIs tonight. Details are available on the Technorati developers wiki. Use apibeta.technorati.com for now but, if there are no major issues, beta will end in about a week. Technorati will now return your query as RSS if you specify your format parameter. Data are returned in UTF-8 format. The new API has better error handling, including appropriate HTTP responses for bad data or no data. Outbound links are sorted by dates and duplicate links stripped. The new API also allows you to limit the number of returned items….
Code that Kills
Scott Rosenberg of Salon attended the Systems and Software Technology Conference to research the military’s dependence on software code. The average acquisition cycle for a military product, according to conference speakers, is 10 years — and that’s an optimistic figure. Between the time the Pentagon commissions a system and a contractor delivers it, whole generations of private-sector computing software and hardware have come and gone. XML and Web services are crucial for protecting America. If you’re writing software today for a system that’s going to take years to deploy, you have no choice but to plan on everything changing around…
Free Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft is giving away a free copy of Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition to users that view and rate 5 VB movies. There will not be 5 movies available until May 17, but there is already a Data and XML tutorial online. Free offer valid in U.S. and Canada only….
Apache Geronimo 1.0M1
Apache Geronimo, the Apache Software Foundation attempt at creating a J2EE compatible container, released its first milestone build. Source and binaries available on the CVS server….
Sun Java Studio Creator Early Access release
Sun released an early access version of Java Studio Creator, formerly known as “Project Rave.” Sun hopes this tool will provide an easy to use interface similar to Visual Studio and maybe even convert some Visual Studio developers to Java developers….